"Minimal Brain Damage" & "A Touch Of OCD": aka, Some Ridiculous Statements That Mom Made This Morning

1. "Everyone has MBD—"Minimal Brain Damage."
2. "Everyone has a touch of OCD."
3. "Nobody comes out with a perfect brain."

"They say..."

Who's "they", by the way? I think that I asked Mom, and she didn't tell me. Statistically, meanwhile, she can't even back up her argument:

"Prevalence Of Mental Illness

• Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S.—43.8 million, or 18.5%—experiences mental illness in a given year.1 
• Approximately 1 in 25 adults in the U.S.—9.8 million, or 4.0%—experiences a serious mental illness in a given year that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities.2
• Approximately 1 in 5 youth aged 13–18 (21.4%) experiences a severe mental disorder at some point during their life. For children aged 8–15, the estimate is 13%.3
• 1.1% of adults in the U.S. live with schizophrenia.4
• 2.6% of adults in the U.S. live with bipolar disorder.5
• 6.9% of adults in the U.S.—16 million—had at least one major depressive episode in the past year.6
• 18.1% of adults in the U.S. experienced an anxiety disorder such as posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and specific phobias.7
• Among the 20.2 million adults in the U.S. who experienced a substance use disorder, 50.5%—10.2 million adults—had a co-occurring mental illness.8"

Also see the 2017 MentalHealthAmerica.net Report and USAToday's May 2017 Report on the CDC's Statistics.

Incidentally, I think that Mom has OCD to which she won't admit—which entails a long explanation and might explain why she makes the kinds of statements that she made this morning.

Does Reilly Have Canine OCD? "Mom-Mom" and "Auntie Michelle" Think So.

"Momma" can understand why. Besides, she might have set off Reilly's OCD if Reilly does have OCD (and she has caused other heartbreaks for Reilly as she's felt heartbroken lately)! What they note:

1. How she obsessively licks Cam's bowl after "num nums" time (which "Momma" thinks could be a dominance show) as well as her own bowl (She can taste things that humans can't, though.).
2. How she constantly cleans her paws.
3. Other symptoms, such as itching and scratching constantly (Reilly tends to get dry skin, though.)

"Momma", meanwhile, wonders if Reilly has Canine ADD, since—for example—she gets easily distracted by other puppies, neighbors, and other animals and people when "Momma" takes her to "go potty"—and Reilly often has to go inside after quite a while and wait until later to try to "go potty" again because she can't find a "potty spot"! 

Somewhat Offbeat: "Momma" Feels Heartbroken Partly Because...

She may have at least contributed to causing Reilly's ear infection, and she of course feels heartbroken regarding another subject. At least Reilly finally had her ears trimmed in order for her to have ears that wouldn't get bacteria stuck in them. That doesn't take "Momma"'s heartbreak that she can really feel in her heart and even the rest of her body—e.g., her muscles and her hand that just trembled a little—today. She's even told Reilly about her heartbreak and how it's contributed to her not being as good of a "Momma" as she could be to Reilly. 

Originally on LinkedIn: Re Joe "JoJo" Dixon: Plenty Of People Weren't Doing Their Jobs, And JoJo Is Likely Deceased As a Result

1. Darren Dixon as a father didn't do his job. If he had married JoJo's mother, JoJo might still be alive and might be in an in-tact home instead of the vulnerable home in which he lived. After all, homes without good fathers are vulnerable homes.
2. JoJo's grandparents didn't do their job. JoJo's grandmother even knew that "was concerned his mother was planning to take him out of the country'", and she did nothing about it. Why didn't she call the UK's department of child protective services?
3. The UK and the US governments didn't do their jobs to at least give JoJo's mother a chance to turn in herself to British authorities. If for no other reason than to let her turn in herself and bring home JoJo, take a plea deal and have prosecutorial immunity, and help the UK and the US fight against Daesh, the UK and the US should've let her surrender to the UK and US governments at the either the British and American embassies in Iraq or the the British and American consulates there. "CIA officials told their UK counterparts that a US Air Force Predator killed 50-year-old Jones in June as she tried to flee the group's stronghold in Raqqa," and "[i]n July a friend described Jones as being desperate to return to the UK, but she was apparently being forced to stay by her husband's comrades."
4. Whoever continues to call Daesh "ISIS" or "ISIL" is not doing his or her job to not recognize a terror group as a state. When countries like Egypt are calling Daesh "Da'ish" (the Arabic equivalent of the name that Daesh absolutely hates) while the UK and the US somehow think that they're being as politically correct as one can be, I have to wonder where British and American exceptionalism went, by the way.

There are also others whom didn't and don't do their jobs. For example, where was L'Oreal in noticing when their employee was acting unusually, and where are individuals and other communities making sure that other single-parent homes and fatherless children aren't as vulnerable as JoJo's home and JoJo were?

More of Reilly's New Eardoo, And Incidental Notes

By the way, isn't this picture reminiscent of two other pictures (among other pictures)?

Also by the way:

1. ¡Feliz Día de Cristobal Colón 525^o de ¨Mamᨠy Reily Rosalita á tí y tus familias y amigos!
2. "Momma" hates to think that she at least partly may have caused Reilly's otitis externa, and Reilly has to be as frustrated with "Momma" as "Momma" is with not getting clear answers about a certain subject.

The Next Post, Part One: The Grooming Appointment For October, More Amusing Encounters, Etc..

1. For Reilly, the grooming appointment was relatively uneventful expect for when she barked at "Miss Molly"'s kitties. For Camille, however...let's just say that one of "Miss Molly"'s puppies tried to dominate poor Cam!
2.  There were two other encounters that amused "Momma", one of which was with a puppy whom became afraid because she smelled Reilly's scent on "Momma"'s hand!
3. One of the happenings that wasn't amusing: Reilly spent her Columbus Day with having to go to the vet and getting diagnosed with otitis externa in her right ear. By the way, Reilly thanks everybody whom's been praying for her in general—whether or not they knew about the ear infection. Also by the way, Reilly has a new eardoo.

Reilly has a supportive "Auntie Michelle" and may have even tried to give "Auntie Michelle" a hint about something in turn!

Columbus Day Card From Reilly

PS "Momma" used a picture of Reilly from yesterday because Reilly has otitis externa ☹ (and she was not in the ocean blue!).