#obsessive compulsive disorder

[mosquitobible]

This! I wasn't diagnosed with OCD until I was a young adult but I remember when I started going to therapy again after getting out of an abusive relationship, I was convinced I had just about every other mental illness under the sun *except* ocd, it was the one thing that never ever crossed my mind. Sure I was a "germaphobe" as a kid but it was something I mostly grew out of (except surprise I didn't actually actually it just morphed into something harder to recognize/easier to rationalize) but I was never clean or organized in any way in my entire life and those were the only ways I had seen it being represented growing up. I also came from a very religious family that didn't really "believe" in mental illness unless it was big and "scary" and "dramatic". So when my therapist told me after maybe 6 months that she had been pretty positive I had ocd since our first session I was flabbergasted and honestly pretty skeptical and she told me to sit on it and look back at my childhood and think about it before our next session and let me tell you, when I did it's like everything clicked into place. It was so painfully obvious, it was in almost everything I did my entire life, I might as well have been walking around with OCD tattooed on my forehead, but nobody paid enough attention or bothered to do anything about it. It was the most life changing thing when she told me that cause it's explained just about *everything*.

i genuinely think ocd is incredibly underdiagnosed bc i will see people posting what are obvious rituals, compulsions, intrusive thoughts, spiralling, hyper morality, etc and its like Have You Considered This Might Be An Issue

[yaninfected]

Sorry for false reporting all of your yanblr moots!! I just wanted to be the only you follow. Do you still love me? Still want to be mine?

Not like I care if you do or don't. You're mine, regardless.

[la-esmerqlda]

Sunday has OCD (canonically) and I could write an entire essay on how it’s scrupulosity/moral OCD, not “just right” OCD. His obsessions stem from rigid moral beliefs and shame (religious trauma), that’s classic scrupulosity.

[mrorel]

This is a good example of OCD: all I can see is the seem in the tile.

[joint-hurty-juice]

Life-changing OCD hack is learning that you can literally call poison control to check if you fucked up and took medications wrong in a way that could kill you instead of having a panic attack while reading reddit and quora threads for an hour. They won't even be mad at you. Like obviously don't do it every day or something but genuinely you can do this if you need to

[somesecretpie]

Greetings bugs and worms!

This comic is a little different than what I usually do but I worked real hard on it—Maybe I'll make more infographic stuff in the future this ended up being fun. Hope you learned something new :)

If you are still curious and want to learn more about OCD, you can visit the International OCD Foundation's website. I also recommend this amazing TED ED video "Starving The Monster", which was my first introduction to the disorder and this video by John Green about his own experience with OCD.

The IOCDF's website can also help you find support groups, therapy, and has lots of online guides and resources as well if you or a loved one is struggling with the disorder. It is very comprehensive!

Reblog to teach your followers about OCD

(But also not reblogging doesn't make you evil, silly goose)

[smoov-criminal]

OCD symptom i struggle with but don't see talked about a lot: inability to trust your own memory and/or perception.

as an example: i put my headphones in my bag. i say im sure they're in my bag, but what if i imagined putting them in my bag? i have to check, so i stick my hand inside and grab them. but then i have to check *again* because what if i just so happened to have another object shaped and sized exactly like my headphones that i just forgot about? so i have to pull them out of my bag and look directly at them to fully confirm they were in my bag

this is a fairly benign example but this also happens with other worse scenarios for me and it's. not fun

[happyk44]

[ID: Graphic titled "Five Most Common Subtypes of OCD". Beneath the title, it reads, "What is OCD? OCD is a disorder which is characterized by compulsive thoughts and behaviours." Next to the text is an illustration of a person leaning into their hand. A gray fog is drawn above their head.

The five subtypes are written below in boxes. The background of the title is light blue. The background of the subtype boxes mimics blue graph paper with a few cartoonish lightning bolts placed around it.

The first subtype is "Checking OCD", which is explained as "someone with checking OCD has obsessions with guaranteeing certainty that nothing bad will happen to themselves or their loved ones. They can usually satisfy this compulsion by double-checking things they may have already checked."

The second subtype is "False Memory OCD", which is stated that "false memory is a subtype of OCD that is mainly characterized by reoccuringly doubting one's own thoughts. Often they feel guilt. False memory is caused, most oftenly, by a traumatic event or experience that has happened previously in their life."

The third subtype is "Hoarding OCD". "This subtype of OCD is characterized by collectng and having trouble getting rid of collected items. This subtype is also characterized by compulsive and guilty thoughts such as "What if I will really need this?" or if they receive a gift from someone they need to get rid of they might think something bad may happen to the person who got the gift for them."

The fourth subtype is "Contamination OCD", which is "indicated due to obsessive thoughts about becoming contaminated - or sick. Contamination compulsions consist of excessive cleaning such as handwashing, tidying up - not just regularly, excessively. Generally someone with this will have sensory issues."

The fifth subtle is "Just Right OCD", and "is characterized by thoguhts and feelings that something isn't quite right or incomplete. Many with this subtle of OCD feel that everything must be perfect or complete, if not they will do everything can to make it perfect. For example, if some things are uneven, they will take the time to fix it."

At the bottom is an illustration of a person sitting down with their eyes shut and both hands against their temple. A dark scribbled ball, indicating stress, is above their head. /end ID]

[goodluckdetective]

Look, this is what moral OCD is like for me:

I walk past a piece of paper. I don’t pick it up because I had a long day at work and it’s very cold outside. This then becomes my internal monologue:

I didn’t pick up that piece of paper, I should have. Don’t I care about the environment? It’s not my trash, I shouldn’t have to pick it up. But also that’s how these things happen right? We place the blame on others as our environment degrades. It was just a piece of paper, it’s not like it can do that much damage. But also how do I know: I’m not an environmental expert. Maybe stray paper scraps are killing the frogs. You’re literally killing the frogs. You should look up how many frogs die a year so you know how shitty you are-No stop it.

I care about the environment, and I recycle and I joined green activism movements but is that enough? I could be doing more. I should be doing more. I should donate my entire check to charity. But isn’t it self serving to think that my one check could help that much? Do I really think I’m that important, how self entitled and-no stop it, reset! You are obsessing and if you fall for it, you will not eat dinner. Let it go.

Okay it’s just a piece of paper. It’s okay you skipped it this once: it could have had something dangerous on it. Yeah that makes sense. But also, that means I’m putting my own safety over trying to help the environment, which is very selfish of me. I’m just one shitty person: god how could I be so self absorbed. I should have picked up the piece of paper. I’m so selfish, and shitty and-no, no, stop it! This is not helpful. It’s fine.

It’s been a long day and I’m cold, that’s not a crime- no that’s being selfish again, you’re making excuses. You’re just a lazy piece of shit who doesn’t care about others, and selfish and God the fact you’re thinking this much about one piece of paper shows how selfish you are, you care more about if you’re a good person than anything else, you’re a piece of shit, you’re a piece of shit, YOU’RE A PIECE OF SHIT.

I get home and open up Tumblr. The first post I see says “if you don’t reblog this post about the environment you’re as complicit as an oil billionaire.” I close my computer and resign myself to looking up the state frog populations until I go to bed.

I don’t eat dinner.

The amount of frogs that die a year is somewhere from 200 million to over 1 billion.

[bisexualseraphim]

Being on the internet with OCD is like “I want to post a picture of my outfit because I look bomb but what if my full address and National Insurance number is written in the reflection of this random public bathroom mirror and I didn’t notice”

[autopsyfreak]

‘letting my intrusive thoughts win’

shut the fuck up.

you’re referring to impulsive thoughts, intrusive thoughts are undesirable and often horrific for the person experiencing them. you dying your hair randomly is not an intrusive thought.

if i let my intrusive thoughts dictate my actions, id be in jail for a long fucking time.

[yaninfected]

Every heartbeat screams your name.

Please, don't leave me. I wanna hear you say my name, you're everything. We are truly meant to be, Doll.

[sunderingstars]

ocd is literally just having a guy in your head that torments you with false prophecies & visions

[bpdohwhatajoy]

[charon-cries]

self-soothing, but in an evil, sinister, fucked up way (i huave ocd)