I don't mix with them but I can't choose my neighbours. And you only have to read the news headlines at times to realise there's even worse out there. Far more poisonous than any plant as well
Thank you every one for replying. Yes I have been diagnosed with OCD and am due to start CBT tomorrow, I just needed to know whether my fears were justified.
See to me I find that my fears are relatively rational, I mean our wild ancestors would steer clear from potentially deadly plants yet people have them in their gardens simply because they look pretty. My mum has a fear of rats, which to me is as strange as my fears are to her. In my mind rats are harmless and intelligent. I mean sure they carry diseases but so does every other animal.
That's the nature of fears isn't it? They seem rational to us. I lie awake on windy nights quite sure the chimney will come down, roof blow off or some other disaster. Nothing happens but it will be just the same next time.
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"personally I'd rather have foxgloves in my garden than a filthy animal sleeping on my sofa."
I don't think that remark was necessary, Hostafan, or very helpful to the OP. But as you said, to each his own!
Hostafan might, of course, mean a human (on his sofa), some of them are the filthiest animal ever, in more ways than one
Forgive the question Mica P but is it just possible that your problem is with your Mother and not with potentially poisonous plants.?
Sue, it was meant as a moment of levity , Forgive me if I have caused offense.
Dorset UK , mercifully I've not met the sort of people you seem to mix with.
I don't mix with them but I can't choose my neighbours. And you only have to read the news headlines at times to realise there's even worse out there. Far more poisonous than any plant as well
methinks you need to chill a bit Poppet.
See to me I find that my fears are relatively rational, I mean our wild ancestors would steer clear from potentially deadly plants yet people have them in their gardens simply because they look pretty. My mum has a fear of rats, which to me is as strange as my fears are to her. In my mind rats are harmless and intelligent. I mean sure they carry diseases but so does every other animal.
That's the nature of fears isn't it? They seem rational to us. I lie awake on windy nights quite sure the chimney will come down, roof blow off or some other disaster. Nothing happens but it will be just the same next time.
In the sticks near Peterborough