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5 years 1 month ago #225834 by Gordon
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Cruella

OCD could be a reason why someone could meet the criteria for (d) and (f) but it would only be due to specific circumstances.

So, your OCD would have to lead to your experiencing "overwhelming psychological distress" and it would have to be this that prevents you from following a route.

You may be may be able to qualify via the reliability criteria, so think about whether it would take you twice as long as a healthy person to complete a journey? If your rituals mean that you cannot go down particular roads or that at each navigation point you have to perform a ritual, could it be said that you cannot follow a route to a necessary standard? Lastly, could you be harmed, physically or mentally by having to follow a route?

These issues require the DM to understand the issues that you are presenting, experience suggests that they will struggle to do this.

Gordon

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5 years 1 month ago #225840 by Perdita
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Yes, I see thank you. So does abandoning the journey mid way because OCD obstacles in the way count for f)?

The thing is I rarely go out now, I prob would qualify for e) because OPD when out meeting the OCD triggers prevents from being able to face being out. But I am kind of not going out because I fit f) as in following a journey causes me to keep coming across OCD triggers and it gets to the point when making a journey becomes impossible because too many OCD triggers get in the way. The journey becomes practically impossible as well as emotionally impossible. EG a pile of vomit on my normal route and another pile on my detour route. Like I say I rarely go out because I cannot cope with the severe anxiety, but also because it is very difficult to complete a journey without coming up against OCD triggers ever y which way I turn. So I don't know whether I am f) or e). You could say fitting f) has led me to become e) . Confused! ???? What do you think?

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5 years 1 month ago #225842 by Gordon
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Cruella wrote: Yes, I see thank you. So does abandoning the journey mid way because OCD obstacles in the way count for f)?


Only if it is the result of overwhelming psychological distress, unless you can show that the reliability criteria applies.

You can't argue both, it either has to be (e) or it has to be (d) or (f). Either, on the majority of days you can't undertake a journey or on the majority of days you can but cannot follow a route.

Gordon

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