Posted by lissy on October 19, 2001, at 9:52:53
Please help me, I feel like such a complete idiot but I am
have been crying for 2 days and can't make myself go to the
kitchen or basement all because of a stupid mouse! This is
so embarassing but I have been diagnosed w/ocd a couple
years ago but went off the meds because of weight gain and
tiredness and had been doing okay w/all the other stuff
like excessive worries and obsessions and had even cut down
the counting stuff quite a bit. I have always been phobic
of mice and toads. The toads since I was little I think
it started because the neighborhood boys used to chase us
girls w/the toads they catch and even put them down our
backs so now when I encounter one I actually run away screaming
How embarassing for a 35 year old woman Huh? My neighbors
just laugh at me we always joke about it. I can deal w/that
fear since it is outside. The mouse thing came about
in my teens when we used to get mice in our house and they
would even get into our bedrooms upstairs and I could hear them while
I was trying to sleep and they would go in my closet and
scratch at the door and crawl into my shoes so ever since I have been
terrified. We have lived here for 10 years and have only
had a mouse one other time but caught it w/in the hour.
My kids saw it in the basement the other day and we haven't been able
to catch it. My husband also told me he had caught one
in the kitchen last week. So now that I know that they amble into
the kitchen too I can't bring myself to go in there. My kids had
to make themselves breakfast and dinner! I am frozen w/fear I can't wash
clothes since the washer is in the basement. My husband thinks
I am just doing this so I don't have to do work but I
swear that is not it! I have company coming over tomorrow and
my house is a pit because I haven't been able to clean the downstairs because
of my fear so between my fear of the mouse and my hubby's yelling at me '
I can't stop crying! My doctor can't see me til next week, by then hopefully
the mouse will be gone anyway. So that won't do me much
good. Of course my other fear is that they say just because you see just
one that means there are probably more than just one. I can't even sleep cuz I
think they might come upstairs to our bedrooms like our
old house. I know I sound crazy but is there any over the counter meds i
could get to calm me down or some kind of techniques to use to get me through
? Should I even bother going to the doctor anyways? There probably
isn't anything to take just for phobias anyways. Please
someone respond and try not to laugh at me too much.
poster:lissy
thread:81658
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