Can fish-keeping be considered a disorder?

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Hey Shrekes, i could go back to hanging out in bars and doin after hours partys, putting crap up my nose that a fish wouldnt eat, spending thousands, plus dwi, casual sex(actually do miss that part), hangovers, fights, blackouts, puking my guts out on the way to work, finding week old toast in my coat pocket, stealing hamsters from kmart, beating up the pizza guy... not for money but for pizza ... you know the list, or i can hang out with my wife and kids and tinker with my tanks. and my wife is a therapist at a mental health center, when she gets home i will talk to her about it, see what she says. im not at into it as some though, but she talks of ocd and has never mentioned it with fish.

Oh yea, happy new year all! Party till shes cute!!

later

RuXPiN
 
redtailfool said:
Theres a cycle involved in it though. You start with few tanks, you go crazy and get several more, you get overloaded and decide to downgrade and youre back to step one. And repeat... Thats the way it has been for me at least. :D
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you too :ROFL: 3rd time around for me and two wives this time i'm going for broke looking for a place on the east coast to set up a fish store.this should drive the third one :screwy:
 
mnruxpin said:
Hey Shrekes, i could go back to hanging out in bars and doin after hours partys, putting crap up my nose that a fish wouldnt eat, spending thousands, plus dwi, casual sex(actually do miss that part), hangovers, fights, blackouts, puking my guts out on the way to work, finding week old toast in my coat pocket, stealing hamsters from kmart, beating up the pizza guy... not for money but for pizza ... you know the list, or i can hang out with my wife and kids and tinker with my tanks. and my wife is a therapist at a mental health center, when she gets home i will talk to her about it, see what she says. im not at into it as some though, but she talks of ocd and has never mentioned it with fish.

Oh yea, happy new year all! Party till shes cute!!

later

RuXPiN
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They sell hampsters at Kmart?? :screwy:


I have OCD and I keep fish but I don't think the two are related.
 
Those crazy fish are at it again! Now they're singing Michael Jackson tunes: "RTC, is not my lover-- OOOOOO!" Shut up, will ya? JUST shut the hell up or at least sing Neil Diamond all right?!?! Now they're listening...heh, heh.
They just told my wife something... "What, Dear? Oh Okay; I'll be right there!" (something about burning socks-- I'll be right back... shush!).
 
Ok now you really got my worried! I m sick cause I take care of fishes? wow well I have to agree with that, lately I have been feeling really weird about this. I mean everyone picks on me because of how I m about my fishes and thats all I talk about really to many ppl I know so I guess I m sick. I will go to the doctor 2morow and c what he says.
 
Turtall, that is the single funniest post I have EVER read...
 
I actually AM a psychologist. The way we help folks decide if their OCD traits are a real disorder or not includes the following criteria 1) can you not do the compulsive behavior? 2) what happens if you dont give in to the compulsion? and 3) does it take more than an hour per day of your time?

I'd have to say "no," "bad things," and "hell yes," respectively, so next I guess I'll be saving jars of my own urine like old Howard Hughes...
 
astronatus said:
I actually AM a psychologist. The way we help folks decide if their OCD traits are a real disorder or not includes the following criteria 1) can you not do the compulsive behavior? 2) what happens if you dont give in to the compulsion? and 3) does it take more than an hour per day of your time?

I'd have to say "no," "bad things," and "hell yes," respectively, so next I guess I'll be saving jars of my own urine like old Howard Hughes...
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EWWWWW, WHAT could one do with jars of urine? Wait a minute. Maybe I'm better off not knowing. EWWWWWWWW
 
I dont think it's an obsession... considering the hours I ignore my girlfriend as well to clean my tanks and search for my hidden orange pike. (which I find now and then). I got drunk one night and a friend said my fish was ugly... and i got pissed (now I'm a teacher for juvenile delinquents and I constantly preach non-violence and fish keeping) and told him he was uglier and made comparisons. The thing was, I was actually pissed and wanted to dropkick him. Obsessed my ***!!!! I'm just protective.
 
I am shocked that a professional psychologist can find turtall's posts funny.

Somebody who is suppressing his pet's creative sides shouldn't be allowed to keep any at all.
The poor fish can't see the moon or can they? That's why they keep singing about the Vee-Cee-R's light. What else would you expect his little prisoners to sing about?

Forcing the defenseless creatures to sing Neil Diamond is the most cruel case of animal abuse I ever heard about.
Reporting turtall's actions to his wife, as his fish do, is a perfectly normal effort to mantain family ties. Turtall is a sick and abusive person and should be controlled.

And BTW the mismatch of carpet and rope is also indicative of his bad taste. :banhim:
 
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