EIGHTEEN QUESTIONS*
- Did you ever lose time from work or school due to IVF?
- Has IVF ever made your home life unhappy?
- Did IVF affect your reputation?
- Have you ever felt remorse after IVF?
- Did IVF cause a decrease in your ambition or efficiency?
- After losing did you feel you must return as soon as possible to cycle again?
- Did you often IVF cycle until your last dollar was gone?
- Did you ever borrow to finance your IVF?
- Have you ever sold anything to finance IVF?
- Were you reluctant to use "IVF money" for normal expenditures?
- Did IVF make you careless of the welfare of yourself or your family?
- Did you ever cycled longer than you had planned?
- Have you ever cycled to escape worry, trouble, boredom or loneliness?
- Have you ever committed, or considered committing, an illegal act to finance IVF?
- Did IVF cause you to have difficulty in sleeping?
- Do arguments, disappointments or frustrations create within you an urge to cycle?
- Did you ever have an urge to celebrate any good fortune by a few hours of IVF?
- Have you ever considered self destruction or suicide as a result of your IVF?
Most compulsive IVFers will answer yes to at least seven of these questions.
*adapted from a gambling addiction site as a (sort of) joke.
13 comments:
Is there a twelve step program available?
Wow - I may have answered yes to more than 7 - :-)
I believe numbers 14 and 17 to be my favorites...combine a celebratory rampage (a la knocking off a 7-11) with procuring funds for the next cycle...hmmm...wheels turning...
Oh my God. I have to admit that I have become powerless over IVF and my life has become unmanageable! I am Mo and I'm an IVF-aholic. Yikes!
Awesome post!
Funny! I love it! Then it is sadly true the lengths I have thought I would be willing to go to "IVF"...
The first step to recovering is admitting you have a problem!
Mine would be a big fat negative ghost rider. I wish. Not applicable. Sigh. Maybe one day.
The really depressing part about this is that it continues to rule your life even after you quit.
Every now and then I wonder if they'll come up with a drug to fix just plain wonky ovaries in the future.
Well done! Replace IF with IVF and I am totally there! I can only live vicariously through the IVF of others at the moment! ;-) When's the next meeting?
That was hysterical!
I'm powerless too! I love it!
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lol! this points to the addictive nature of IF! i remember being obsessed with EVERYTHING! :)
xoxo
Um... yes, repeatedly!
Too funny! Yet kinda sad.
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