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Blog Roll
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Links
to recommended blogs:
OCD
Wiping The Crazy Off My Face
Incertus - The Weblog of Doubt and Other Disorders
There is a diary included as
part of the following website:
My Obsessively
Clean
Den
Where Justin can be Justin
Agoraphobia:
Agoraphobic
English Guy
Downunder
Bipolar and OCD:
Gail's journal
New!
Disjointed Thoughts
Autism:
Donna Williams’ Blog
Ballastexistenz
A Blog from Another World
Attention Deficit disorder ADD:
Living with ADD
A
personal selection of Interesting Blogs not related
to mental health or conditions of any kind:
The Action Blog:
Save an
endangered species, protect human rights, save a
forest.
Gristmill: The environmental news blog |
This blog is part of
Grist Magazine's
website, a magazine dedicated to environmental
issues.
Positive Attitude Quotes, Free Happy Positive Loving
Messages, Popular Motivativational sayings.
A
good selection of interesting quotations
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February 22nd
How the time has flown this month, with sadly no entries in my
blog at all until today.
I have to admit to some considerable discouragement since my
statistics have dropped so dramatically.
Yes I realise of course that the less entries or updates I make
the worse this problem will get. But hey, I do have a severe
mental health condition and the presence of chronic depression
dogs each and every effort. Not to mention the long list of
other ailments. I know that people will not wish to revisit a
website that is never updated, however my website is quite
extensive and it is difficult to imagine that everyone with OCD
and related conditions have read or viewed all of the material
therein.
Last month I explained all the reasons why I do not feel so
inclined to work hour after hour for a website few will visit.
One of the greatest difficulties of course in getting visitors
are search engine rankings, which invariably rank high the same
websites where little ever really changes and where there is
not a lot of personal information, simply because they are most
frequented because they appear first in the rankings, sounds
rather like a catch twenty two situation if I understand this
metaphor correctly. You have to have, it seems lots of visitors
to get a high listing but how do you get lots of visitors if you
are not listed high in the rankings? So the same websites appear
time and time again with little of anything different. Whilst mine has so much to
offer by way of personal experiences, which I know many people
like, as indeed do I. Maybe knowing the problems of others does
not effect a cure, but it does help us get a perspective on what
is happening in our own lives and helps us to feel less alone.
Yet few people will find my website unless very determined to
check through page after page after page of OCD, (and other
conditions on my website) on search engine related links, many
of which become increasingly vague after the first few pages. My
website does not appear anywhere near the top if at all. It is
on the web of course and if I type in OCD plus the link will
appear on the first or second page, but any other entry into the
search field and my website than falls into obscurity.
I do intent to do more to resolve this problem, if indeed it is
possible to solve. It is difficult
getting other websites to link to mine as I have said before and
this has been discouraging to say the least, even though I
recognise the difficulties involved, for example one website who
once had my link had no one with the know how to update their
website.
I am, also as mentioned previously, occupied with my new
website, an enormous task that has spiralled rather out of
control in as much it is far bigger and more complex than I had
intended. I am aiming to get it completed in a month or two but
this may not happen, as it is no easy task. I am not a
professional writer and OCD checking and obsessing about
everything I write is a nightmare, a huge impediment to
progress.
In some way although it is enormously stressful and I feel
driven even getting up earlier than I used to, it is nonetheless
a good distraction. Sometimes I think we need to turn the centre
of our attention from our conditions from time to time and focus
our thoughts elsewhere, as you will see when my website is
on-line. I know of course that one cannot simply say, ignore OCD
or other disorder, it of course interferes with any and every
endeavour but if you can turn you focus of attention to
something else at least you have some other distraction which
may mitigate the compulsions and distract from depression and
frightening ruminations, even if it is only for the duration of
time that you are thus occupied.
This winter has been a difficult one for most people, with
severe weather, but we have been out and about albeit not to the
extent as we have done during previous winters, in some of the
splendid scenic places within easy each. Well relatively easy
reach as of course you cannot go here there or just anywhere
when its snowing like crazy and the roads are like an ice rink.
I suspect some of you in the northern hemisphere are really
weary of all that snow which here in the UK caused some severe
disruption, but in the more remote Pennines it was spectacular.
We had a couple of trips into the countryside once the snow had
settled and took photos, some of whcih I have included here as
desk top wall paper. It was, despite the sunshine, bitterly cold
and we did not stay long as the cold really effected my
headaches. The snow transformed the already scenic countryside
in to a spectacular white expanse, just like a traditional Christmas
card. Although I was concerned about animals left with no
shelter such as the sheep and the horse you see in the pictures
below.
My husband and I where
concerned about the many sheep we saw like those in the picture
above in fields covered with deep snow, many had no grazing and
no hey to eat. The sheep in this photo were finally given hey
but there where many fields where there was no food of any kind
for them. Particualry in the hills. The horse below was in a
field all by himself and rather like the sheep there was no hey
and of course no grass upon which to graze.
February 23rd
The photos in the last
entry were taken over a week ago and the contrast today is more
spring like, and signs of spring are everywhere as we drive
though the Durham Dales into Northumbria. It was though dull and
overcast and I did feel some reluctance to go, as I do mostly
now anyway. What may appear to others as my having a great time
can in reality be for me quite an ordeal. But once we finally
arrived it was a reasonably pleasant day out and signs of spring
are every where. For now I wont go into all the ins and outs of
the negative aspects, my anxiety, my constant need to find a
toilet due to such anxiety, and the anxiety that that generates
for a person like me with contamination OCD, or the exposure to
too loud music in the tea room. Today I will just leave you with
a couple of remainders that spring is on the way.
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On the way home
we stopped by a field full of tiny lambs and their
attentive mothers, they were absolutely adorable,
skipping and frolicking. For February it is
very early for lambs, althoguh much milder today it
can be bitterly cold right into late March and even
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Snow drops
where everywhere and it finally felt that spring has
arrived, although of course here in the UK it could
still turn wintry. I have known it snow in April at
Easter time, serious snow not just a shower or two.
But for now there is much improvement after a long
and severe winter, which I am told is in any case
nothing like the severity of winters here in the
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February 25th
This will more
than likely be the last update this month and for a while. I
hope you continue to visit my website and I hope in a month or
two to be able to include more entries.
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Concerning blogs : Although I have initially looked through the
recommended blogs in my blog roll I have not read every single entry and have
selected each on its overall merit: interesting regular entries . However the
comments and opinions of the respective blog owners do not necessarily reflect
my own opinions.
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