#but... you know exposure therapy
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woagh look at that
+ the base sketch!
#cotl#cult of the lamb#narilamb#cotl lamb#cotl narinder#the demons won!#also self appointed exposure therapy is going amazing#that or maybe it was that i realized the reason im so afraid of drawing persons beign close mayyyyy be bc im severely touch starved#but who knows lmao#anyway you can still see the sketch behind the drawing!#wanted to experiment a little since i didnt visualize it fully colored or anything#had fun using the shadow that was casted when i took the photo#final note: i am ASHAMED that my line work game is 1000 times better when i draw w my finger
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Lee with baby. Pregnant Lee . That’s all thank you
He is s t r e s s i n g Gaara o u t
I personally hc Gaara as the one more likely to physically carry a pregnancy for many reasons but mainly because Lee would be unable to hold back on training and heavy lifting and put poor gaara (and probably midwife sakura) into a constant state of anxiety
#autumns disaster art#gaalee#leegaa#fanart#fan art#ask#gaara x rock lee#gaara#rock lee#mpreg#did you know op(me) is scared of and grossed out by pregnancy in most contexts#this is exposure therapy lol#I usually hc gaara as afab#but tboy lee is underrated methinks#cw pregnancy
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What if after crawling out of the harbor Kaz made sure he knew how to swim, and how to swim with extra weight, because he didn't ever want to rely on someone or something else if he ended up in the water again.
It's one of the things that started the rumors that Dirtyhands wasn't human. Fisherman would see him walk out to the docks in the dead of winter, fully clothed in his coat and all, and then dive into the water, no matter how rough it was. They all assumed that he was dead, because no one ever saw him get out of the water, yet he was always back the next day.
They assumed that he would stop when he broke his leg and started using a cane. But he didn't. They watched the scrawny kid, cloaked in mercher black clothes and a heavy wool coat, limp down the dock, take a deep breath, and jump in the water again.
At some point someone suggested he might be a tidemaker, but no one ever saw him control any water. He'd just dive in. And it's widely known that he wouldn't have made it this far in life if he was using tidemaker powers visibly. So they all just assumed that Kaz Brekker was a non-human entity incapable of dying.
#my headcanons#six of crows headcanons#six of crows#kaz brekker#kazzle dazzle#let me clarify#this doesn't mean that he doesn't have panic attacks when he gets in the water#actually they're probably worse than they would be if he hadn't done this#but he views them as weakness#and taught himself how to at the least keep his head above water with them#because you can't tell me that Kaz Brekker wouldn't be the type of person to force himself to push off a panic attack until he was alone#and there were in fact plenty of times#especially in the beginning#where someone saw a kid flailing in the water and had to pull him out before he drowned#he simply threatened them into not talking about it#idk#i just know nothing about this man is healthy#lets give him another bad coping mechanism:#forced exposure therapy
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give this guy a raise
#i kept editing this drawing bc i wasnt satisfied w it and im still not i think some things are a little wonky#but sometimes you gotta know when to stop editing and not let perfectionism take over your life 🧘#so i’m posting this as exposure therapy so i can stop myself from EDITING IT AGAIN 👹#the shading was torturous but fun <3#lmk nezha#lmk fanart#lego monkie kid#digital art#my art#artists on tumblr
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okay i don't know if the hyperfixation will hold long enough for me to actually write this but au where everything is the same but the waylon house is just a bit more structurally sound. max doesn't die and is like 'thanks for this guys, is that the whole party or?' and everyone just sort of looks at each other like. well we don't want to anger him so what can we say but yes. and so the nerds and max end up hanging out for a night in the waylon house and the worst thing that happens is grace chastity is tempted to have a beer for the first time (she doesn't though. but with max offering it's very hard for her to refuse. or focus lol) max keeps giving them weird backhanded compliments like 'wow you guys are way cooler than you look, how'd that happen' which is not the best but it's way better than being beat up for daring to be in his line of sight, so they'll take it.
so they all hang out for the night, max is like weirdly chill and friendly, eventually he leaves and they're left standing outside the waylon house like. ?? what the fuck??? did we just befriend max jagerman???? the nerds are still apprehensive considering pete still has a black eye, grace is still boiling with religious zeal and repressed lust, and steph still doesn't really like him, but they can't help but remember how he said that trying to prank him was the nicest thing someone's ever done for him. and that just can't be true, considering he's literally the star quarterback and the main character of hatchetfield high, but.... the fact that he felt like it enough says a lot, doesn't it?
so they decide to leave the prank footage to gather dust and figure this was probably the best outcome they could have hoped for. who knows what they'll walk into at school tomorrow? maybe max will become a friend.
#and he does :)#nerdy prudes must die#npmd spoilers#npmd#i just. the brainworms. they're in me#if anything it would just be a oneshot i'm not trying to rewrite the show or anything#but like yeah max joins the friend group :)#do you ever think about how genuinely touched he was that they basically made him his own haunted house?#that shit was exposure therapy and they didn't even know it#and like dear god 'this is the nicest thing anyone's ever done for me'??? lines to go crazy about forever!!!!#bc like he's popular he's a star everyone knows him but no one's nice to him? do we know anything about his family?#and like obviously he's an asshole so like yeah why would people be nice to him if he's such a dick#but like.... consider this: babygirl#he was really endearing in that minute between being pranked and dying ok?#he was like a totally different person the minute the social pressure was gone#ok ok enough tag rambling. if enough people want this i will actually write it#*speaks
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Event Horizon AU but instead of grabbing the child.
Imagine, if you will, for maximum angst and found family (the angst is mostly just ways these could go bad).
He is tougher in that form. He knows he is tougher in that form. Siffrin curling around his friends in times of danger or stress.
Sif stressed? Curl around your friends. Having a task may help with the stress (or at least get his mind off of it). Task obtained: protecc.
Friends in danger because (I am making something up on the fly) of a forest fire or an earthquake? Sif in the way of the threat.
Tent Sif in hail.
I think he would.
(He would also likely get lectured later.)
Another thought. Sif just. Getting climbed on for a quick team getaway from a threat. Or even just he is large and can't help it. Someone makes a Steed joke. Sif laughs.
(Gentle exposure therapy. Reassign the big size with keeping his family safe. He'd be less stressed about it, at least.)
(Sorry I just. Like transformations. They make the brain think very hard and it's fun.)
YOUU. YOU get it. transformations fucking rule and i am having a field day with this ask. honestly i might even end up doodling a bit more after responding lmao
#snickart#dragon cave's mailbox#in stars and time#event horizon au#siffrin isat#everyone is here but theyre not really major so. im not sure i should tag them#BUT youu. you see my vision#LOVE the concept of it being an exposure therapy of sorts. youuu. you should keep talking#no id#ALSO i 100% assure you riding in siffrins cloak like shown in the final 2 photos is the most comfortable thing in the world#i know this in my heart
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this is a meme but this idea is key to ocd treatment. genuinely
#bolo speaks#like that's actually something you learn in exposure and response prevention therapy.#I would know because I've done it.#completely avoiding your triggers because they set you off is capitulating to your fear#...and so is feel obliged to trigger yourself to make sure you have the ''right reaction!''#many such cases
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infected with a midas touch where every drawing I make turns into my silly children. I was like hmmm I will make a silly little sticker as a breather while I work on more serious ones and you'll never guess what happened (MESSY MESSY WIP WARNING)
anyways yay its the besties
#been posting more messy wips on here#as like exposure therapy for perfectionism#feel like im running a con#where i love to draw these two in ship baity poses#but im imagining it totally platonic#im like ahahahahaha i shall get my shipping engagement#but little do you know duck is aro 2 me#lea talks#wips
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unspecified werewolves
#[.art]#(guy who has a meltdown about looking unaccaptable if theres a single drop of sweat on them voice) you know what monster this reminds me of#which is to say despite how cool tumblr makes them I think the concept of lychantrophy is nightmarish when considered realistically#so it follows that this is the equivalent of exposure therapy to me#etc etc. You get it. You know#self
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Not my dream, but this time @nomadicat 's
"i had an awful dream i am still not recovered
i really dont like spiders
and before i woke up clara told me a shirt i wanted was a womens small and it would not fit me which was odd but okay
and as she was talking to me i was rotting and being eaten by the spiders
i am scared"
#zuka let me post this!#its all cool#pathologic#pathologic dreams#pathologic clara#clara saburova#clara the changeling#i love making people think about pathologic#like... exposure therapy#you know?#im spreading this plague upon fellow travelers#a lot of clara content of late...
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The idea that comics are constantly rebooting, or have too many characters, or are too lore-laden to be accessible to new readers is a statistical error. Legion of Super-Heroes Georg is an outlier and
#and actually let me say#it's not really that bad#LoSH is exposure therapy to this mindset tbh#because yeah you'll see a character for the first time#and everyone will act like you've known them forever#and then you just roll with it!#and it turns out fine#in related news I'm enjoying my Legion read#I got through the silver age book and am now working on some bronze#the Great Darkness Saga is still a ways in the future#but it's interesting to see how this group grows (knowing where it ends up re: Legion of 3 Worlds)#chit chat#dc comics
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Local Lizard Tries Her Sister's Job
"And this offers enough protection while you dance? But it's so… revealing!"
… "Yes, I feel very free to move, but one wrong step and-"
… "L-Lyse?! Don't bring my wife into this! Her opinion on this armour won't make it protect me better!"
#ff14#ffxiv#final fantasy xiv#final fantasy 14#arashi washi#why yes i did decide to level dancer just to make this joke why do you ask#blame my wife for running with this gear in a lovely sky blue for the past several weeks#did you know her roegadyn is beautiful? because i do and she reminds me every time she logs in#also it's funny to put the lizard in situations that make her slightly uncomfortable#call it exposure therapy -ba dum tsh-
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I got season one on DVD. Haven't watched yet. Not to be the G3 hater people don't like, cuz truly I'm not, BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I watched the live action movie when it first came out. I frankly really didn't like it other than Frankie. I love the original and didn't like all the changes and I still don't like the changes. So, I was already upset once the movie was over. Then the new show had it's premiere. Frankie wasn't voiced by the actor who played Frankie (and I was under the impression that this would be in the same universe as the movie so I was upset) AND THEN Toralei was posh british. That truly was the tipping point for me.
I really want to give this a fair shot because I know I would 100% love it if not for my already huge love of G1. I'm gonna watch this a few times. I know my first time watching this I'll just be a hater going "BUT THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO GO!" even though my mind and myself understand that this is different from G1. My heart will feel the betrayal and I'm just gonna have to get used to it. I so badly want to like this and I know I will once I jump over that hurdle. I've already seen a few episodes I like aswell.
#This would be so much easier if Toralei didn't have a posh accent. It reads to me as totally the rich mean girl stereotype now.#YOUR HONOUR SHE WAS AN ORPHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#Literally I'm only like this because of all the lore that wasn't in the movies that I know about and is now slightly altered.#Seriously. Your honour Draculaura was adopted. Your honour that mummy joke was insensitive because Cleo's mom is dead. Blah blah blah.#The major one of coures being your honour they are Cleo and Deuce and nothing can change that. But I SWEAR I'll get over it.#Eventually.#I just need the time to accept that things have changed.#Saw an old post of mine from when I found out they were rebooting IWTV and I was so upset. I was convinced I wasn't gonna watch it.#I wouldn't be able to even if it was good because I love the movie too much.#But after months of being able to mentally prepare and seeing previews I was able to watch it and I loved it.#Me being a G3 movie hater exrtremo (which won't change with time) really set me back in being able to mentally prepare for the change.#Exposure therapy only works if you are prepared and brother I wasn't prepared for posh accent Toralei.#Monster High#Monster High g3
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I have finally finished this cardigan I started like 3 months ago!! Yippee!! And I only had to frog it once 😌
#it was really humbling#specially because my sib and my mom were both like 'just start it over with a bigger hook'#and I kept stubbornly being like 'no! even if I have to use all the yarn in the house!'#and then I realized they were right...#you know crocheting is good exposure therapy if you're afraid of making mistakes
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Should I force myself to talk to women on hinge
#I do not want to#but I am also actively trying to overwrite unrequited attraction that is actually making me ill#so like. idk.#would that count as exposure therapy in this context?#I was introduced to the concept of limerence and I feel a lot more normal about it#not in the sense of ‘I am okay now’#but in the sense of ‘this is a shared and recognized phenomenon that acknowledges the compulsive nature of it#and suggests that it may come from a similar neurological place/process/imbalance as OCD#so instead of well meaning people who don’t grasp how overwhelming these feelings are telling me to just try to date other people#I at least have the validation of ‘you are not crazy because other people have experienced this kind of debilitating intensity too’#and the suggestions for coping with and overcoming limerence include CBT/DBT#which is a lot more structured and helpful than my friends giving me well intentioned advice for something they don’t really understand#like I cannot tell you how much relief this has brought me#I don’t just have a crush on a straight woman and can’t get over it i literally have these non stop intrusive thoughts about her#coupled with the constant mental noise of i know she isn’t interested and i need to be respectful and maintain boundaries#it has literally made me feel like I’m losing my mind or some kind of stalker#but a mental stalker#anyway it has been incredibly unpleasant and upsetting and now I’m focusing on consciously stopping and countering those thoughts#and approaching it the same way as my other intrusive thoughts#also note: I tried to make an appointment with my therapist but she is overbooked and if this does not yield change I might spiral again
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They day ppl finally stop telling me "you'll like it after a 1,000 tastes", "just keep trying and you'll get used to the food", "you need to try new foods", etc. etc. will be the happiest day of my life. I'm so sorry I'm not willing to subject myself to years of constant torture and misery for the faint hope I might someday be able to eat one or two more things. I simply don't think stress and throwing up are going to fix my severe lifelong sensory processing issues. I mean all power to those who decide for themselves that's the thing they wanna do, but baby I ain't gonna 'recover' bc there's no 'before' or version of me without these issues so fuck off <3
#personal#arfid#avoidant restrictive food intake disorder#ed#eating disorder#ed tw#it's not like i didn't try :)#when i was younger and my food issues were less severe- GUESS WHAT?!#i did the fucking food therapy! non-stressful well done and executed exposure therapy to an easy food#i did that for YEARS!#and guess what. zero progress!!#it did nothing for me i did not grow used to the food at all and it did absolutely nothing to improve my eating#ages 3-13 i consistently was always doing something and going to doctors and trying new things to help me#and there was never any progress#my arfid has only gotten worse since then and everyone who actually knows me#(doctor therapist friends family and such)#all agree that i'm never gonna 'recover'#if i put in the effort i could expand the foods i regularly eat to reach a balanced diet#there are just enough different foods i can eat that it is possible for me to remain healthy#but due to other problems (such as depression) that's not currently something i'm doing#my goal is to someday be able to eat justtt enough foods of varying types to maintain a healthy diet#that's it. i'm not interested in expanding my diet. i'm not interested in trying new things. none of that is a realistic goal for me#so if ppl could stfu when they don't know me and don't know what they're talking abt that'd be great 😊😊😊#mm i also think ppl rly understimate the amount of food-related trauma you gather simply by having arfid...#again. i wanna reiterate that if expanding your diet n being adventureus is your goal that's completely fine#just do NOT fucking project that onto me and spew shit abt how if YOU can do it I can do it#we are separate people with separate brains and lives and circumstances#rant#vent
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