#Checking

[thismommyisforreal]

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

[nanaslutt]

is this a safe space………….. ^_^

[heartbreakfeelsogood]

wait was i normal today

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Aviator Latham checking his airplane on an aviation event in the Champagne region of France

French vintage postcard

[saturnisscreaming]

Have you checked to make sure your bones haven't grown mouths? You might want to

[sillylittlewitchslut]

"I'm going to check on the Coons. I call them the Coons btw"

[rensotherkinblog]

Did you all enjoy my 14 otherkin positivity posts? Be sure to check all of them out, and I hope you all feel represented!

If I missed anybody out, I'll be willing to post an extra part including those i forgot to mention. I can even @ you if you'd like <3

[mudwerks]

(via 11th May 2023 - all things amazing —)

[crazythegirl]

Coral Reef abstract

This was a painting where I just wasn’t feeling myself and needed to express my emotions more constructively, I suffer from anxiety, depression , FND and ptsd

[vellhighbandi]

Sharmaji kaise ho ji

*hugs* jhappi pao ji

Ek dum first classs hai hum to!! Kal maths fatt rha hai aur mamu bolke gye ki areh halwa subject hai unko kaise bataye ki unka topper baccha ab piche se top marne wala hai

[just-miru]

ayo silly tumblr doesn't let me post i think

[c-walshie]

OCD and Owning Your Choices ❤

Hey everyone! I'm new here, and I'm recovering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder — slowly, but surely. I'm hoping this blog will be an amalgamation of OCD things, as well as general mental health and wellbeing things, that might come in handy for people in a similar space 😊 For my first post, I thought I'd share some thoughts about acceptance and ownership that made a big difference in my OCD journey and was a pretty big milestone in hindsight. Naturally, this is not mental health advice, and isn't the right perspective for everyone – I found it helpful, but it goes without saying that this approach is by no means the correct or best one, and different things will work for different people :) Finally, this perspective is focused on physical compulsions and won't make sense for mental ones. I used to say things like "OCD made me check the door was locked," or "OCD is shouting at me right now," or "my OCD is really bad today." These are totally understandable phrases and there's nothing wrong with them, as it often feels like OCD is controlling our behaviour. This is one of the hardest parts of the disorder. But I realised that speaking about OCD in this way makes it sound like an illness or ailment that you are merely subject to – something that is external to yourself that is influencing or controlling your behaviour. I found that the more I blamed OCD for my behaviour, however, the more I started to give up. "OCD made me do that," I would say, feeling sorry for myself. I would pass the responsibility onto the disorder, not accepting it for myself. Whilst it's true that neural pathways and chemical imbalances are to blame for much of our OCD suffering, it is also very, very importantly true, that you are still in control. Even when it feels like you aren't, you can still make the choice to walk away, stop, or do whatever it is that you want to do. (Critically, this is not the case for mental compulsions, rituals, rumination, and the like. This only really applies to checking and other physical compulsions. If you suffer from mental compulsions, it is absolutely true that you can't control your thoughts, so don't blame yourself for what pops into your head - it doesn't represent you, or your values! It's just noisy brain activity in a brain evolved to protect us from possible threats, so it can go into overdrive sometimes and start throwing things at us that don't make sense). When I blamed my OCD for my behaviour, I was, without realising it, actually giving it control. I said, "OCD made me do it," and I became blameless. Blamelessness feels great, because it implies that you couldn't have done otherwise. But blamelessness also equals powerlessness. If I wanted to change my behaviour, I would have to own it — I needed to recognise that, in truth, OCD didn't make me do it. I did. The only way to change my behaviour was to accept responsibility for each and every compulsion, and acknowledge that I made that choice. And the flip side to this somewhat dismaying revelation is that, if I made the choice to do it, I could also have made the choice not to do it. So next time you feel like blaming your OCD for your suffering or for a physical compulsion, you might want to gently remind yourself of two things: Firstly, that you *are* choosing to do this. BUT. Because you are choosing to do this, you also have the power to choose not to do this. OCD is not controlling you. If you can take responsibility for your compulsions, you might find that you have power over them, instead of the other way around :) Photo credit to Nicolai Traasdahl Tarp ❤

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well 🧍‍♀️ as a reminder this blog is NOT a safe space for trump supporters but it IS a safe place for women, queers, trans ppl, people of color, undocumented people, and any marginalized group.