Current mood:

energetic

Finally
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Yesterday, I finally got an exercise bike. I didn't want anything fancy, so I found one in the classified ads for $20. I'm going to start doing 15 minutes a day and work up from there. Bought a yoga mat too so I hope to start doing that a few times a week soon (as soon as I find that stupid yoga DVD I bought).

I need to do this -- have needed to for a long time now. Not only for my physical health but for my mental health as well -- it's true that exercise is good for the mind as well as the body, I can feel it even when I only do little things, like take a walk or do some gardening.


Speaking of mental health, I recently discovered I have a form of OCD too. I had NO idea -- I'd always thought of OCD sufferers as the kind of people who are germ-phobic, keep ultra Spartan-clean houses, wash their hands all the time, etc. -- which is definitely NOT me (although I am slightly germ-phobic and do tend to be a little bit anal about the tidiness of my workplace). Then I came across this book at work -- Imp of the Mind: Exploring the Silent Epidemic of Obsessive Bad Thoughts -- and suddenly I realized I wasn't the only person in the universe with these weird, compulsive urges to do things that upset me. Turns out these weird compulsions are just one of the many symptoms of having OCD. Jesus, wish I would have known about this kind of shit when I was younger -- I've been to shrinks all my life, pretty much, and as far as I know I've never been diagnosed with it. Oh well. At least I know now, maybe I can learn how to deal with it.

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