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mountainspring:
What a great thread.  I can relate to fear of paperwork…  in my case bills.   I hate them.  I hate to pay them and I’m afraid of them but don’t know why.  It’s so silly because we have the money, but fear just overtakes me.   Sometimes it’s no big deal, and other times they send me into such a panic I can’t open the mail.  Recently I found a solution that is working well.  I scheduled them to be paid every other week automatically from the bank account.  This way if I’m not feeling like I can deal with them they are taken care of.  Going to the site to check into the think right now CD’s.  Thanks for the topic Hops

gratitude28:
You know, my problem is just the opposite I just realized... I overpay everything. To the point I have no money left and have to scramble to find a few bucks (and we are not hurting for money...). For some reason I get such pleasure out of paying things off that I will deprive myself of my last nickel to have that feeling. It also goes along with the pleasure of throwing things out, I think.
Hmmm... I'll have to ponder this one...

Hopalong:
October, this is a great line, thank you!

--- Quote ---And lost children cannot do paperwork, no matter how much they might want to.
--- End quote ---

I posted a long happy explosion about how I had RECEIVED y'alls support...maybe on a GS thread...but either I can't find it or it vanished or I hit the wrong button, but the fact is, shortly after writing all this I did snap out of it. A few days' more to do but I made a big push and got the pile sorted and a bunch done.

THANKS ALL -- your vibes arrived!!

BTW, interesting thing to add, would love your thoughts Oct., is that my Dad was also OCD-ish about paperwork--about a lot of things. So while he was a protector and did all that so well, it was a tense thing to try to do (as well as he). Hmmm! Maybe it's THAT. Not so much wanting rescue, as fearing doing it imperfectly so much that I often don't do it at all.

AHA.

Whew. Oy. Dang. It's so stooooooooooooooopid.

love,
Hops

Gaining Strength:

--- Quote ---fearing doing it imperfectly so much that I often don't do it at all
--- End quote ---

This has great validity for my situation.  But knowing ths is just the beginning for me.
Great thread Hops. - Gaining Strength

gratitude28:
Fear of imperfection is what holds me back from working out and eating right. It is so silly, but I always feel everyone is looking at me and judging what and how I eat and how much or how well I work out. I feel if I am not doing it to Arnold's level, it's not enough...

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