I suffer from a long line of mental fractures. Things that would point me out as to be sometimes not so normal. I have a vast array of these little "creatures" that make up the Psyche of Who and What I am. "Regular" people have put names to some of them, such as OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, ADD, Attention Deficit Disorder, Bi-Polar (used to be called Manic- Depressive), and PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, just to name the main characters hanging in! I have invented my own analogy, I feel it is a better description that lends itself to more "personality"!
I call them my Cats In The Attic! I know they are there, I even have names for some of them. I know I "feed" them, my warped thinking, inventive ramblings, counting, measuring and random ideas are constantly running, hardly a break, so there is plenty of "fodder" for those damn Cats!
If you or someone you know has any of the aforementioned collection of "Kitties", (OCD, ADD ,BiPo, PTSD, Etc...) it is really hard to tolerate the idiosyncrasies all the time! My Daughter and Grandchildren of course now have the same issues in life and struggle constantly to overcome them. it really is a family affair in the genetics as well as social ramifications that helps to breed these peculiarities!
Part of the struggle is to identify where there is a problem and then learning to handle it and take back the control in a lot of these issues. So to help recognize them I began telling my Daughter, and now my Grand kids, "Okay, so we have taken that Kitty out of the Attic, pet it, loved it, fed it and now it is time to put it back in there!
The difference between having some "Cats in your attic" and "Bats in your belfry" is that YOU control the CATS (by choice), the Bats are in control of YOU (out of control)!
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