#OCD problems

[isorottatime]

REMINDER THAT FIGHTING OCD WORKS!!!! REMINDER THAT ITS FUCKING WORTH IT!!! REMINDER THAT YOU CAN BE HAPPY!!!!! REMINDER THAT IT PAYS OFF!!!!! KEEP FIGHTING!!!! PLEASE KEEP FIGHTING!!!!!! I LOVE YOU AND IM SO SO SO FUCKING PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!!!!

[fella-lovin-fella]

guess who got diagnosed with ocd a couple weeks ago

[the-fictive-haven]

OCD and ADHD is such a funny (/sar) combination when it comes to college work.

Like. For the whole week the assignments pile up and linger in the back of my mind, I stress and stress about it and lose more and more motivation because of it until I fall into a depression, and then all of a sudden the day everything's due I snap into hyper-focus mode and knock all of it out at once on a lousy night's sleep and two coffees and realize it wasn't actually that bad at all as I turn everything in at like 11:55pm

[l0vesickfool]

"I let my intrusive thoughts win"

HA HA OH DID YOU?

So you killed your pets? Had s e x with a family member? Screamed a slur in public transport? Scooped out your eye?

No? then S T F U PLEASE!

[tinnitus07]

when we're in person

it all makes sense

need to get out of my head

self-loathing obsession

go back and check

mental compulsions

were those feelings really there?

i have to make sure

words left unspoken

wishing we could talk more

have a good night

and have a good weekend

i'll check back with you next season

~ i have ocd and a crush at the same time, kinda draining ~

[pasteld0ll6]

cute reminder that ocd symptoms are NOT logical or consistent

“U hAvE cOnTaMiNaTiOn OcD bUt U sTiLl dO ‘insert unhygienic thing here’?????” ya its a disorder it does not make sense. im very aware that my compulsions are not logical T-T

[alexandernotalex]

OCD makes me feel like I'm completly alone and misunderstood. At least when it comes to my lifelong fight with it. How am I supposed to talk to someone about my thoughts if they are SO disturbing? So bizzare, so weird, so awful? Because that's the reality of OCD; it makes you feel like you are crazy, like you are a bad person. And it's soooo frustating because those intrusive thoughts get stuck in my head and they repeat themselves over and over again

[meenawrites]

So... hi again?

Hello....

I swear half my posts at this point are me apologizing for disappearing.

So I'm skipping that part.

Mostly.

Still sorry.

BUT! No, I'm not fully back because my mental health tanked again and I'm starting up school again (which I really need to focus on because I must graduate).

BUT I WILL BE LURKING!

[hamptersadness]

EVERYONE SAYS FOLLOWING THROUGH WITH COMPULSIONS WILL MAKE OCD WORSE BUT IF I DON'T DO THEM THAT MEANS I DONT HAVE OCD BECAUSE OCD IS ABOUT COMPULSIONS

[starfishinthedistance]

One thing that really bothers me in the OCD community is the way we fight over representation.

There are many different ways to experience OCD, because OCD has quite a vague definition, only describing the cognitive process and not going into specifics. And there's nothing wrong with that, it just means there are many different themes, different obsessions, different compulsions.

However the general public only knows OCD through incorrect stereotypes and media representation, which the OCD community attempts to fight. But it's happened in a sort of counterintuitive way.

It's started with the stereotype of OCD meaning you like things clean and organized as a quirk. Then people with contamination OCD and incompleteness OCD said "Actually, we don't do this because we think it's quirky, we do it because we feel in danger if we don't." But then people with magical thinking OCD, attempting to fight the original stereotype, said "No, OCD never looks like cleaning and organization. OCD is having irrational fears and compulsions that don't make sense, like flipping a light switch so your mother doesn't die." Then, in order to combat that stereotype that magical thinking people created, people with HOCD and ROCD said "No, OCD never looks like that. It looks like fearing hurting people or fearing that your partner doesn't love you."

That's where we're up to now, and I'm not looking forward to the next development, haha.

But as I said, OCD is a very broad disorder, it can be experienced in many different ways. None of those people were wrong about their OCD, but they were wrong about their OCD being the only kind of OCD. And many people know this, but still say things like "No, OCD doesn't look like that", full well knowing it can, because they want their type to get more attention. We don't need to do that. We should say "Yes, OCD can look like that, but it can't also look like this."

I don't know, just an observation.

[k4ndizz]

i don't know if this is just me but every time I draw my oc's, my brain sends me thoughts like "hey, they look like your niblings", "hey, they look like kids", and it's very annoying because I didn't create them with that intention, and their characteristics don't look anything like my nephews. my style of drawing faces was always very "adorable", but not to make them look like children. also, my oc's are 19 years old, and now i'm having a lot of doubt, i'm so scared, i feel so bad because i feel like i'm a creep :(

[the-fictive-haven]

[Serious post] [Kinda vent-y]

Yami needs a friend who's up at ridiculous times of the night, or in a different timezone or something (it is almost 2AM here right now). She stays up late a lot, and that's all fine until our meds wear off completely and her OCD suddenly starts kicking her ass.

There comes a point where she just stops trusting us and listening to our voices, and completely trips out in the innerworld, full blown not even mentally present anymore hallucinations, and the worst part is she can make that shit real without realizing it or meaning to because she just has so much natural power here. And nobody can overpower her even when she's having a bad episode because she's the host. Best we can do is cofront and try to get her to chill the hell out.

So yeah. Come interact with this idiot, she needs grounding, like, constantly. Even when it's not the middle of the night. -(blurry)

[justafleckofpaint]

Reblog bait is a PAIN. I just got a post that could be really important information on my dash, but then there's "I don't care who you are, reblog this" and worse all over the place, and OP is deactivated, so I have no easy way to access a version of the post without the bait everywhere. There's also the fact that I can't just remove EVERY reblog, since a few of them contain the information that was vital, but they come AFTER baity comments. This leads to my post!

INPUT NEEDED FROM OTHER FOLK WHO STRUGGLE TO DEAL WITH REBLOG BAIT!

gonna add a few tags of the group i had in mind below since this is especially relevant

i set the poll to 1 week because that's the longest it goes but input (whether by anon ask, comment, reblog, etc etc) is very much still welcomed after the poll closes up

[intergalactorgasm]

distract self

focus on what i can control

deep breaths

uncertainty is a part of life

logic and reason

practice gratitude

the need for compulsive and constant reassurance is not only irrational when put to thought but straining on a relationship. listen to the responses you have been given, they are your answers. trust it.

uncertainty is a part of life. it is beautiful and exciting. it is not just blindly being thrown through life, i have the tools and actions to anticipate and alter my own future and the tools around me are useful. listen to what people have to say and trust them. you can absorb what people have to say without jeopardizing your own well being. there is nothing wrong with living in the moment and trusting people at their word, you need it. if you don’t live through the good parts then the bad parts seem more daunting. just, relax babe. it’s okay i promise.

[brainspiraling]

One irritating assumption when someone (namely, especially a partner) finds out you have OCD, is that you are obsessed with them— which could be but isn't necessarily true.

My anxiety, a large portion of my intrusive thoughts mainly revolves around my loved ones getting hurt in some form, rather than them in particular or any relationship... unless they have given me very good, extensive reason to be anxious about it.

A different portion is dedicated to my own survival, or fulfillment of basic needs... which can seem like you're obsessed with someone when you're forced to depend on them to any extent, and the only control or ability you could have is through them.

For me, personally though... it has and likely never will be actually about an actual person.

[genderfuckingaround]

Can I tell y’all what ocd bullshit happened today

Last night I forgot to charge my headphones so they were at 50% when I went to school so I told myself I would ration my headphone use and only use them for emergencies, like my intrusive thoughts acting up (idk if listening to stuff to distract yourself is actually the most healthy way to deal with intrusive thoughts but it helps me survive the day dammit)

Well this morning the most detestable, ungodly intrusive thought proceeded to attach itself to the word “emergency”

So every time I wanted to listen to music and reminded myself I’m only doing that in emergencies the intrusive thought would come back, making me want to listen to music to distract myself from it

It’s like explaining to people that the fire extinguisher is only for fires but every time you say “fire” someone in the group commits arson

Fun times 👍