Both prospects are terrifying to me. My support worker is due tomorrow and I am apprehensive about it. My podcast gets pissed off at me for not going out and says it’s aviodant. Damn right it’s avoidant.
My mum invites me down to hers but would need to shower before that so kinda catch 22 position.
It had been longer than I’d like to admit, and I’ve been painting all week,
So I was dirty and multicolored.
When I got the courage to go take a shower, I was like “wouldn’t I feel better if I cleaned the bathroom and THEN took a shower, because I want my nice clean body to be in a nice clean atmosphere”.
I preceded to clean every inch of my already very clean bathroom, and then thought “I should go ahead and clean the other bathroom while I’m all dirty”, of course, it is also very clean already.
At this point I had cleaned two bathrooms and personal negotiations broke down, I could no longer justify not taking a shower for another minute.
It was an agonizing 5 minutes of anticipation, but as soon as I was in there and had gotten my hair wet, I was fine. Once again, the shower didn’t kill me and I was so fresh, so clean.
Now, I can not shower for like another 5 days without guilt.
You can do this! Get in there! You don’t even have to shave your legs or put on any special oils/lotions/conditioners…
Jimbob, What if you just said “screw it, I already feel crummy cause of the caffeine so I’m just gonna jump in the shower for three minutes, lather up, rinse and jump back out.”
Maybe turn on a favorite song that’s about three minutes long full blast and use that as a timer, and rock out in the shower to the music.