#bc that's what intrusive thoughts are

[aetheros]

stop saying intrusive when you mean impulsive

stop saying intrusive when you mean impulsive

stop saying intrusive when you mean impulsive

[inkskinned]

they want to talk about mental illness and acceptance and how everyone is a little ocd it's cute and quirky and their "intrusive thoughts" are about cutting their hair off and you say yours are about taking a razorblade to your eye and they say ew can you not and everyone is a little adhd sometimes! except if you're late it's a personality flaw and it's because you are careless and cruel (and someone else with adhd mentions they can be on time, so why can't you?) and it's not an eating disorder if it's girl dinner! it's not mania if it's girl math! what do you mean you blew all of your savings on nonrefundable plane tickets for a plane you didn't even end up taking. what do you mean that you are afraid of eating. get over it. they roll their little lips up into a sneer. can you not, like, trauma dump?

they love it on them they like to wear pieces of your suffering like jewels so that it hangs off their tongue in rapiers. they are allowed to arm-chair diagnose and cherrypick their poisons but you can't ever miss too many showers because that's, like, "fuckken gross?" so anyone mean is a narcissist. so anyone with visual tics is clearly faking it and is so cringe. but they get to scream and hit customer service employees because well, i got overwhelmed.

you keep seeing these posts about how people pleasers are "inherently manipulative" and how it's totally unfair behavior. but you are a people pleaser, you have an ingrained fawn response. in the comments, you have typed and deleted the words just because it is technically true does not make it an empathetic or kind reading of the reaction about one million times. it is technically accurate, after all. you think of catholic guilt, how sometimes you feel bad when doing a good deed because the sense of pride you get from acting kind - that pride is a sin. the word "manipulation" is not without bias or stigma attached to it. many people with the fawn response are direct victims of someone who was malignantly manipulative. calling the victims manipulative too is an unfair and unkind reading of the situation. it would be better and more empathetic to say it is safety-seeking or connection-seeking behavior. yes, it can be toxic. no, in general it is not intended to be toxic. there is no reason to make mentally ill people feel worse for what we undergo.

you type why is everyone so quick to turn on someone showing clear signs of trauma but you already know the fucking answer, so what's the point of bothering. you kind of hate those this is what anxiety looks like! infographics because at this point you're so good at white-knuckling through a severe panic attack that people just think you're stoic. even people who know the situation sometimes comment you just don't seem depressed. and you're not a 9 year old white kid so there's no way you're on the spectrum, you're not obsessed with trains and you were never a good mathematician. okay then.

mental illness is trending. in 2012 tumblr said don't romanticize our symptoms but to be fair tiktok didn't exist yet. there's these series of videos where someone pretends to be "the most boring person on earth" and is just being a normal fucking person, which makes your skin crawl, because that probably means you are boring. your friend reads aloud a profile from tinder - no depressed bitches i fucking hate that mental illness crap. your father says that medication never actually works.

you still haven't told your grandmother that you're in therapy. despite everything (and the fact it's helping): you just don't want her to see you differently.

[ohitslen]

Intrusive thoughts

[bruciemilf]

Hey guys, just wanted to give you all a little update since the blog has been kinda slow for a few months, -- my mental health hasn't been the kindest to me these past months!! I've been in a bit of a creative void, dealt with some pretty damaging intrusive thoughts that caused me to spiral in mini depressive episodes, and overall my attention span kinda broke up with me.

On a bright note, I had an interview for a remote customer service job! They liked me well enough to set up a tech review interview which I passed :D

I just wanted to assure you that updates and new fics are coming!! xoxo

[murphysiblings]

i dont think i have ocd but i believe in their beliefs

[seafoam-taide]

Further sketching followup of this post . Realized that Croissant in this situation should absolutely have lost an eye bc duh . Also she just looks too weird with long sleeves so weird vest thing go. And I wanted to try to stick to something close to Loop with tk but I had to give them pants the pants are too important to the tk shape. Sorry

[hellhunde]

hi oh my gosh your art is such a big inspo!! idk if youve answered this before but do you have advice on how to get better at drawing gore without having to look at, yknow... dead cats etc.?

your work is so visceral and emotive, i was just curious about that part of your process for both my own work and to know more about yours. i hope you have a lovely day!!

I answered a question similar to this on my Waves Always Crash comic blog! Not about exactly How to draw the gore but more How I try to balance it with my art style.

As for how to draw it better without looking up actual gore refs; for me looking up scientific anatomical diagrams helps me sometimes (though I don't always use them). Whether its organs, bones, muscle, etc they offer what organs/bones/muscles look like+their placement without having to look at like. Actually disembowlment references. Then it would just be your job to bloody them up.

As for blood, i don't really have a good tip bc i literally just go off vibes. I draw enough until it feels like enough (which is often more than is realistic but its for me shhhhhhhh).

[kindaorangey]

unfortunately i am still an introvert after all this time so even if i have a really gratifying and positive interaction with someone outside of my comfort zone i will feel the need to weep afterwards from the stress of it all

[aropride]

im so fucking mad abt the therapy thing i cant even express it Im gonna make a zine abt it later i think

[adolins-heart]

Gang w how rough the world is rn can we pls work on stopping suicidal jokes/slang/etc like. Pls. It's not just damaging to you, who is repeating the suicidal ideation verbally over and over again to everything (lie to yourself, even if you don't believe it), you're also repeating phrases again and again that will trigger other people who struggle w suicidal ideation

[astranauticus]

oh lol i forgot to post this robit sketches! because i have one (1) bit and im sure as hell gonna commit to it apparently

[evangelistofmurder]

Paranoia is getting worse

[the-mechanisms-system]

Man. I know this would not make it better but sometimes I wish I had regular OCD instead of pure O. I know compulsions are disordered and don't Really help, but I wish I had something I could do to make it stop for even a little while.

[maximura]

[pinchan]

also can people for the love of god learn what intrusive thoughts mean before using it in a sentence

[hometownrockstar]

i followed the aita tumblr blog (ppl send asks describing their situation n theres a poll to vote on whether theyre TA, its not reposting reddit aitas just to clarify) and theres so many of them that are "aita for having a thought or feeling" which is exactly what i expected out of a tumblr aita blog but also how many times do we need to unlearn the idea of thought crimes