What's the most humiliating experience...

coconuthead · Post by **coconuthead** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:01 am

..you've had so far with your BB?

I think mine would be when I was in the 11th grade and someone thought it would be funny to leave Colgate and a toothbrush in a red bag on my desk on Valentines Day. I'm thinking someone gave me a gift and I open the bag to find toothpaste and a toothbrush, then they were trying to hold their laughs in. Bunch of pieces of shit!! People these days can be so cruel, I swear!

Phantasist · Post by **Phantasist** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 3:17 pm

We all know about this problem. People think we have bad breath because we don't brush our teeth. Most people are immune to bad breath and since they have never experienced this condition, they have no knowledge of it. If we weren't afflicted with this nightmare, we would be just as ignorant.

Tibya · Post by **Tibya** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 5:14 pm

Getting awareness to common man should be the process along with finding the cure of this. I have not had so much bad experience, because people have been very kind (and not so rude to me yet).

MrDoubleB · Post by **MrDoubleB** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 5:05 pm

Mine was when i guy...oh nvm

mike987 · Post by **mike987** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 5:40 pm

Most painful moments are being with someone I love and seeing that person react to my breath.. Ruins my mood for the next few days until I can recoup alone. If I'm out with a friend and they have a reaction, the day is done.. I just want to go home and crawl into a corner.

halitosisux · Post by **halitosisux** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:48 pm

I remember when I was about 17 years old, my best friend who I'd grown up with came round to see if I wanted to go out for a drink. He was with a friend of his from college. They were driving in his friend's new car.

I jumped in the back and all the way to this pub they were talking and laughing and I had to keep my mouth closed. It wasn't too bad inside the pub once I got drinking and smoking but then later on we went back in the car and within a few mins I had to become a mute again. By the end of the evening they were laughing at how stupid I was being for grunting all my words out like I was going nuts or something.

I knew from this moment on that I could never put myself in that position ever again - and I never did - apart from a few unavoidable events like christenings and a birthdays. My best friend gradually gave up on me and we hardly had any more to do with each other. Same with everyone else who ever knew me.

I remember watching this thing on TV once where various people tried to best describe what hell might be like. Nothing they could come up with compared to my reality.

mike987 · Post by **mike987** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:24 am

I bet you're so happy to be cured.

You're doing those social things now, aren't you Halitosisux?

WillRobinson · Post by **WillRobinson** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:14 pm

without doubt my most humiliating experience was was going in for the first kiss and it never happening because she thought my breath smelt like crap... could it be any more devastating?

halitosisux · Post by **halitosisux** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:44 pm

Mike, I've got certain committments which take up every bit of my spare time at the moment. I haven't even been further than a couple of miles of where I live for nearly 3 years because of this. It's just nice to feel that I been given the opportunity to do the things that others around me take for granted. As soon as I'm able to I'm going to go totally ****ing WILD. It's not just about being able to do specific things, it's about feeling and doing NORMAL things and everything that goes with being normal and feeling on the same human-level as everyone else around me instead of feeling like a complete misfit who has no choice but to continually REFRAIN and restrain themselves from any form of engagement with others. GOD just thinking about the contorted crazy survival games I had to play just to keep going is making me want to SCREEEEAMMMM.

I used to look at people around me and think to myself, this person is free and has all the oportunity in the world to do whatever they want, and is this all they can do? It used to make me so pissed off to see someone driving a SHIT car or to have a SHIT job or be dressed in SHIT clothes. I used to think GOD if I only had the same opportunity, what I could achieve - I don't say this in a materialistic sense, and I don't mean to sound arrogant, I mean it in a fulfilment of potential sense. Now I've been given the opportunity to fulfil my potential and this for me is the greatest joy of all.

coconuthead · Post by **coconuthead** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:47 pm

halitosisux wrote:Mike, I've got certain committments which take up every bit of my spare time at the moment. I haven't even been further than a couple of miles of where I live for nearly 3 years because of this. It's just nice to feel that I been given the opportunity to do the things that others around me take for granted. As soon as I'm able to I'm going to go totally ****ing WILD. It's not just about being able to do specific things, it's about feeling and doing NORMAL things and everything that goes with being normal and feeling on the same human-level as everyone else around me instead of feeling like a complete misfit who has no choice but to continually REFRAIN and restrain themselves from any form of engagement with others. GOD just thinking about the contorted crazy survival games I had to play just to keep going is making me want to SCREEEEAMMMM.

I used to look at people around me and think to myself, this person is free and has all the oportunity in the world to do whatever they want, and is this all they can do? It used to make me so pissed off to see someone driving a SHIT car or to have a SHIT job or be dressed in SHIT clothes. I used to think GOD if I only had the same opportunity, what I could achieve - I don't say this in a materialistic sense, and I don't mean to sound arrogant, I mean it in a fulfilment of potential sense. Now I've been given the opportunity to fulfil my potential and this for me is the greatest joy of all.

halitosisux, you're cured?

halitosisux · Post by **halitosisux** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:21 pm

Yes, after I removed one of my wisdom teeth.

jen · Post by **jen** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:16 am

Halitosisux, thank you for sticking around and sharing your ideas and wisdom with us for so long even though you are no longer suffering like us. It shows real empathy and kindness.

I wish my problem was as simple as wisdom teeth. In addition to the everyday hardship of going through life with bb, I feel that it is affecting my faith big time. I already feel so rejected and alone and if I can no longer believe that God is with me, I don't know how I'll cope. I can't even go to church any more, because when I hear about God's promises and how much He loves us, I feel very angry. But I won't elaborate too much on that. It's just another thing that I will have to work out for myself, I guess.

mike987 · Post by **mike987** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:50 pm

If you stop fearing God, you may find personal relief.

I'm not going to tell you what to believe, but I would like to suggest to you that your BB is not related to sin, nor is it a test from God.

If God were real, why should man even know anything about him? Do you believe the crazy, hypocritical stuff that humans read to you during mass?

Humans are the messenger of God now, just as they've always been. The universe is much more vast and amazing than ever revealed in anything 'God' has ever said...

Anyway, I can tell you, there is life without God, and it's just as good, if not better than a life with him. Just want you to know if you do lose your faith, you are among friends the same as before. You'll get nothing from faith but your own introspection and you can achieve this without faith.

So hang in there!

jen · Post by **jen** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:49 pm

mike987 wrote:If you stop fearing God, you may find personal relief.

I'm not going to tell you what to believe, but I would like to suggest to you that your BB is not related to sin, nor is it a test from God.

Anyway, I can tell you, there is life without God, and it's just as good, if not better than a life with him. Just want you to know if you do lose your faith, you are among friends the same as before. You'll get nothing from faith but your own introspection and you can achieve this without faith.

So hang in there!

Thanks, Mike, for the reassurance that I'm between friends. I know, but the loneliness is there all the same..

I'm by no means a religious nut, but I've always had a simple faith which carried me through difficult times. And no, I don't think the bb is a test or punishment, it's something that happened to me and that's that.

It's just that if I'm this angry with God, I'm in a deep, dark place which scares me.
However, it wasn't my intention to turn this post into a religion discussion, I know there is a space for religion in this forum, will use that if I need to vent further

halitosisux · Post by **halitosisux** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:22 pm

Thanks jen, so kind of you to say so.

I think being able to talk and relate to others on here has been so important. I have always struggled to understand "God" and truly understand what suffering is all about, what I am and the reasons why we're forced to go through this life. So much struggle, yet what are we really once we're no longer prisoners of our own body.

I would love to discuss these things. We should make a new thread for whoever would like to participate. I think if we can make some sense of these things, and learn more about ourselves it can help us all to understand how bad breath ever became such a problem for us all in the first place.

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