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The first article I read this morning was on the BBC site about Misophonia. See here:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04vx47gx91o OK so poor Lottie is looking forward to seeing her family this year at Christmas but she will have to do it unfortunately wearing ear plugs. The reason being is that she can't stand the noise that her family make when they are eating. Hmmmm interesting I thought. Well I will change seats, carriages and possibly even trains if I have to sit next to someone tucking into a Cornish pasty. I actually like the taste of them but the meaty smell is overwhelming when you can't get away from it in a small train carriage and then when you have someone either nibbling away at the Cornish corners or masticulating their meat then I tend to want to scream very loudly. OK Lottie I'm with you, I don't like the sound of people eating or generally any sound that would fall into the category of 'highly irritating'. I once lived next to a train line...

I'd been thinking about this episode (The Strike) again recently and had been meaning to talk about it for about the last 5 years. It's probably the 'most-like' my condition that I have seen that has ever been put on film.  OK so The Aviator is an excellent film starring Leonardo Di Caprio showcasing the wonderful and extremely painful like of entrepreneur Howard Hughes.... but it's nothing like my life. yes there's a guy starting to stammer and have repeated unwanted thoughts, ticks and saying stuff he couldn't help ending up with a morbid fear of germs... so much so he essentially hermetically seals himself up from the world. truly terrible and truly understandable by anyone with OCD... but.... like I say nothing like I have. Although I will say after watching it, I did one night start repeating a phrase. I just couldn't help myself. I had been drinking and not sleeping very well and staying at a friends house as I was breaking up with my terrible girl...