Hi--
   Someone suggested I post here because I'm so new/infrequent to the Forum that my sub-head is still "Wrong!", which I take personally even though it's been explained to me (again and again) that I shouldn't.
    Brief history:--female
                       --if I were a different sort of BC fan, I would have to be a Cougarb*tch (or is it Cumbercougar?) since I'm close to his sister's age
                       --teacher of literature (over here we call it "English"), once at the UofT (Toronto) where I worked on an unfinished Ph.D on Wm Blake (hence the screen name)
                       --off on LTD this fall (not serious injury but persistent)  and, without enough to occupy my time, I fell into this pursuit/addiction as a result of
   (a) the article in Sept's American "Vogue" wherein BC was called "brilliantly digressive" (because I've been called the latter but not usually with the former attached, I had occasion to wave that article in several faces and identify with BC--previously unknown to me; since then, however, I noticed he takes flak for it too, as in the current Radio Times interview by Steven Moffat who writes he set BC off talking and then went out for a drink, dinner and a short holiday--he may come back someday to find BC still there, not noticing); and
    (b) an early-Oct. recommendation by Netflix ("If you liked this, then you'll like . . . ") for "Sherlock" S1&2, which I'd also managed not to hear of; all I had to do was get part way through Episode 1, and, as I've heard you Brits did when it was first broadcast, I was up and at full attention, wanting to know who are these brilliant people--BC, Moffat, Gatiss (sorry, never made it into the Doctor) and Freeman, whom I knew a little ("Office", "Hobbit").
                  --then, though I've never posted ANYTHING on-line before (except a couple of book reviews for amazon.ca),  I started writing and posting Sherlock/Moffat/BC things here and there under assorted screen names--a couple of 'he's a genius' reviews for Moffat and, because I still thought people were doing that, a parody review (2 stars) of "Sherlock" S3 in which the narrator accidentally watched "Parade's End" and mistook it for a new "Sherlock" episode at amazon.uk (I am SO getting fried by the fangirls for those 2 stars).  And then I knew I'd fallen off--and possibly under--some kind of wagon when, after I watched the Jimmy Kimmel/BC show on Wednesday night, I posted under a YouTube video. Several times. No one with half a brain (and more than two lines of text to offer that don't contain the words "my ovaries exploded"--Why is that sexy? It sounds really painful) posts under a YouTube video!
      So, to make a long introduction to myself even longer, I'm afraid I definitely fall into Type 1 of what Sherlock defines as a fan ("Stop me before I kill [or write another post] again") and I fear (see the denial above) I may be sliding into Type 2.  I want to retain my knowledge of the solar system (among other petty details of life) before all things "Sherlock" and/or BC drive them out.  Are there others out there who've endured and prevailed?  Remember, my addiction, though increasingly intense, is rather recent.  I realize my cry for help is coming at an inopportune time, since you lot are in high gear to see S3 rather soon.  There I'm in luck because the reduced salt/fat/taste version won't be coming to PBS until mid-January.  Plenty of time to get "benedict cumberbatch" to stop showing up as Google's first recommendation whenever I start to type.  Just advise me on the first of the steps towards withdrawal.