I think she meant Ups and Downs in a bipolar/drug use sense. Not the normal lifestyle type.

'Hooligans' riot and destroy property. Hooligans are violent. In contrast, these women peacefully protested in a way the country found distasteful.

Yes, I think it's part of my OCD.

She's 27 now.

I know. Besides, his cat is cute. Bonus points for that alone.

Her life might have gone down the toilet, but let me just take the opportunity to say that is a nice photo of Amanda Bynes (for a change). She looks relatively cognizant there.

He also got in a reference to The Odyssey. I've seen him make allusions to King Lear in reference to Lindsay Lohan in the past...

Do you tell them you prefer not to be contacted?

I'm the same as you during depressive episodes. However, the people I'm talking about tend to go on about how 'great' their lives are when they do bother to reply. It's more like bragging than abject misery.

Why not just be frank about it? There are few people I dislike, but I don't pretend to get along with them. Even if I truly disliked someone, I'd bother to reply. I wouldn't want them to waste their time either. Even if my reply was just to say so.

"that I don't care about and don't have time for. Or maybe I just don't like you."

Yeah, that's definitely the sort of rude, entitled behaviour we're talking about here.

Ha, I've avoided touching jumpers or cardigans since very early childhood. Yes, it sounds insane, but it's so trivial that I won't tell any of the psychiatrists I've seen for OCD.

There's been times when the person hasn't responded, but they've had the time to comment on youtube or whatever. I actually just cut contact with the person, since it was so rude.

I've only been to the initial two interviews, so I'm not really sure how it works yet. I'm due to attend once a week for the next six months (!) so I'll let you know.

I have OCD (we've spoken about it before on Groupthink).

Mine isn't too bad right now, weirdly because I've discovered that drinking quite a lot of caffeine daily makes me less depressed. It actually works better than any of the meds I've tried over the years. Not energy drink though! I'm a nightmare on them. Tea and…

At least an half an hour or 15 minutes isn't too bad. I mean she could be watching tv or something noisy where she can't hear the phone. It's waiting for several days that really bothers me.

Although yeah, it sounds like your friend probably feels like being lazy tonight. It annoys me when people aren't frank about…

I'm glad it's not just me. The annoying thing is, the people who do it tend to think the other person is 'over reacting' so I try to avoid mentioning it (which yes, is also passive aggressive).

At least you sort of try though!

I know. Even when I'm really, really busy with something, I'll always respond because the person has wasted their own time getting in touch. If someone can't be bothered doing that, it's just selfish.

Does it drive you crazy when people ignore your messages for days? Maybe it's just me, but I always respond to things as soon as I read them. Consistently waiting several days to reply to something is just rude and pretty passive-aggressive!