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So, apparently I'm OCD...
Just got diagnosed today. Professionally. But I just want to make sure I'm not getting screwed over by capitalism. (Wouldn't be the first time. Thank you America.)
So, for my peace of mind...
I'm not looking to start a fight or offend anyone. I'm just weary of the American healthcare system because it's screwed me over in the past. I'm not paying $150 per appointment for giggles, okay?
Spread this around please? I really want to know.
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Whispering, fervent, hurried. As if the shadows cast by the pews would seize him if he stopped. A gentle hand lifted his chin, stopping his compulsion in its tracks. The kind eyes of the Devil leered down at him, arched crow wings hanging high above his head. "I've seen plenty of Godless men in churches, but few as desperate as you, doctor…" They said, voice soft and curious. "...just what do you think you did?" --
thought it'd be nice to play into wynslow's angel motif for my victorian au and turn it into fallen angel <3 especially since their victorian skin quote already makes a reference to it!!
and fun fact; wilson's nickname for wynslow in this au, instead of songbird, is morningstar. go figure, right? :3
#the fun thing about wynslow in this au is that nobody actually knows if they're really lucifer or not#what they ARE though is a pagan that lives on the outskirts of town!#they're kind of like a last-ditch cure for desperate folks?#(this is how they met and befriended willow)#well anyway you can imagine wilson's not a fan of that#he's also not religious at all#but he prays and confesses compulsively because of his RAMPANT moral ocd#so through questioning his compulsions and forcing him to think about why he does them. wynslow befriends him eventually!#and then he gets even MORE side eyes from everyone because he's not only kind of a dubious shit doctor but now he's friends#- with the town devil LOL#anyway anyway#dst fanart#dst#dst wilson#dst wynslow#dst oc#dst self insert#oc x canon#self insert oc#selfshipper#self ship#wynwil#victorian wilson#victorian wynslow#wilson p higgsbury#wilson percival higgsbury#religious imagery#religious trauma#(???)#tw religious themes
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My favorite flavor of Reigen to write is without doubt "smart, good with people and ultimately well-meaning, but lacking the right means/knowledge to deal with some very specific issues, which makes him fuck up while helping his loved ones". He did his best, but his best was flawed. He wonders if he could have been better, but he wouldn't have done it any other way back then. It's a difficult matter to bring up because even though there was care, he wasn't the wise and reliable guy everybody trusted him to be. Another proof against him as his mind endlessly condemns him as a fraud.
#and its not even lying! he made an honest mistake anyone could have#but Reigen is the one who is supposed to know better to help others (make up for the person he is)#yes this is about “Survivorship Bias”#also my minor “Mob with Harm OCD” headcanon I think about sometimes#its already such a misunderstood disorder. not to mention when children suffer from it#so in this situation Reigen couldn't have known that he wasn't doing “the right thing”#(recognizing that Mob's questions and anxious thoughts weren't of the normal “unsure kid” type)#and he ends up saying things that are useless at best and harmful at worst#even more if you consider the idea of Mob's compulsions being mental#oh well. blond conman who is actually trying but isn't a perfect person...#mp100#mob psycho 100#reigen arataka#lalá rambling...
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The concept of sexual orientation OCD and the way it's discussed is so vile
#logxx#The fact that every resource on OCD ever 1. Legitimizes the concept and 2. ONLY in the context of someone#Being 'obsessed' with being gay#So the natural treatment is to reassure the person in question that they're actually 100% straight#And they should stop worrying about being a Vile Homosexual
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I think my main contention with DBH is that Fallout 4 also does a very similar cardinal sin with their own Synths which is something I noticed when playing (it was so blatant it bothered me). But people still really like Synths and Fallout 4, they just ignore the parts of it that bother them.
I could also levy a similar but less elusive issue to Resident Evil 5, but most of my followers enjoy Resident Evil despite the fifth being tone deaf (at best.) on levels never before witnessed.
This is my confusion. I don't really have an interest in DBH, but I do enjoy both Resident Evil and Fallout, both of which also do similar cardinal sins.
For those who answered Yes to DBH, how do you process your consumption of Resident Evil, considering this? Does the moral confliction bare you no mind?
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I like that sometimes you’ll be doing something your whole life like it’s normal and then you’ll meet someone and they’re like, no. That’s actually an insane thing to do be doing.
#this is about my coworker seeing that I write down the hours that I’m in office and mark them off as they go#then I told them if I’m really bored I’ll do it in ten minute intervals#not normal office activities apparently#also kinda about when I went to therapy and she was asking me about of questions about OCD#and I was like no I don’t do that and then had to go back the next time and be like: actually I lied. I forgot that I do that everyday#actually. it’s normalized in my house
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i feel like i really drew the short straw with my ocd now i didnt know some people were getting gay sex variants :/
#i also think about gay sex for hours or even days but its unrelated to my ocd. no more questions#THAT RB IS SO FUNNY TO ME I LITERALLY HAVENT EVEN FINISHED READING IT BC THIS PART REALLY SPOKE TO ME#warlock wartalks
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Why the Konmari method is pretty useless for people with genuine problems with hoarding and OCD, or OCD tendencies, at least without some caveats and definitions:
Hoarding is defined by a persistent emotional attachment to inanimate objects. Clutterers and hoarders often have an unconscious need to save items, whether for an imagined future ideal use, or just because otherwise they would end up in the landfill.
People with these issues often have difficulty discerning the difference between a truly useful item and something that should be given or thrown away because of their emotional attachment to the item.
They see themselves as the best curator of the items, which may range from useful items like craft supplies, display items, sentimental items, and stuff that is truly just junk.
"Sunk costs" is a term from economics that means that a cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered. Although the original term refers to finances, the sunk costs of the time and effort someone has put into an item can influence their decision to keep the item.
Therefore, another factor in this attachment is the sunk costs of money, effort, and time that a person has put into an item. A person may no longer be personally attached to an item, but will keep it because they have always meant to use it or simply because it's not yet ruined.
This is also a reason those with fewer economic advantage tend to be hoarders more than those with a comfortable financial situation. Someone like this realizing they've obtained two of an item will take on the responsibility of curating both instead of getting rid of one.
Because of all these factors, the expression that was translated as "sparks joy" in the English version is too easy for a clutterer to confuse or redefine in their own mind as they work to sort through their items.
In my case, for example, I had a situation where the basement, which was full of our excess saved items, needed to be cleared so the cracked foundation could be repaired. I had to decide what to save in the limited storage space we still had, and what to throw out or donate.
If Konmari had been in vogue at the time (this was in 2004) I'm certain I would have kept far more items than I should have. This language is too easy for a clutterer to massage and redefine in their own mind based on what the item is.
First, clutterers need to be clear-eyed about the fact that they suffer from excess emotional attachment to objects. Flylady's declutter method was in vogue at the time I engaged in this declutter session, and she has a whole checklist of questions to ask oneself about an object:
Do I love this item?
Have I used it in the past year?
Is it really garbage?
Do I have another one that is better?
Should I really keep two?
Does it have sentimental value that causes me to love it?
Or does it give me guilt and make me sad when I see the item?
This may seem needlessly complex to someone who is not a hoarder or clutterer but this addresses many of the reasons that a sufferer would keep an item that they shouldn't.
Another factor is that they are perfectionists. This seems at odds with the idea that they may have a huge mess in their home, but what happens is they often can't deal with their persistent need to have a perfectly clean home that matches their vision.
Because of this they put off starting on the project until it can be done perfectly.
This is why methods like Flylady and Unfuck Your Habitat (which is really just Flylady without the cutesy rhetoric) help these people so much, because people with differences such as ADHD become clutterers because they don't know how to regulate their own time or how to organize.
The emotional attachment to their possessions is, incidentally, why decluttering on behalf of your hoarder friend is a very bad idea. The person will need to work through this process on their own, in order for it to stick.
Getting rid of these items can be intensely emotional and difficult for someone with these tendencies.
Time limits, routines, consistency, and persistence are the best tools for someone who needs to declutter. Don't try to do this all in an afternoon. Not only is it a difficult process, it should become a consistent habit.
For resources and further reading please check out Squalor Survivors (archive.org link).
#mine#please feel free to ask me questions about this i am an old hand#squalor survivors#hoarding#ocd#obsessive compulsive disorder#ocd tendencies#konmari#konmari method#marie kondo#reposting everything from my twitter feed#i'm about to delete everything so get it while it's hot#tweet: 2019
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Hey quick question, how do you believe something when everything in you is screaming that it's wrong? Asking for a friend
#yes this is about Jesus loving me :)#like this seems like a stupid and simple question but#I can intellectually believe it to be true but feel it's 100% false#and then at that point#what good does it do#took a page from my sort-of OCD mentor's story today and “acted as if”#aka#ok well if I were sure Jesus loved me and felt it#what would I do?#and that's all fine and good because it got me to do what I needed to do (spend time in prayer)#but if I don't feel it#and not even that#but feel it's wrong#what benefit is it?#I derive no comfort from it#Idk wise sources would probably say that the intellectual believing comes first before the feelings#and I'm ok with that#but will it actually? Because I cannot for the life of me figure out how I'm going to get around this weird mental roadblock I have here#usually with things I believe (aside from OCD at least) I have at least some feelings of certainty that help me through any doubts that com#so like#if I read a passage of the Bible that has me questioning God's goodness#or I see something happening to someone I care for that makes me doubt God's goodness#I have enough of my own experience and enough Bible verses to back up that He IS good#that I can feel pretty confident in telling myself “I'm just not seeing the full picture here”#With this#I do believe God has done incredibly loving things to show me He loves me#I have story after story with God in my life not to mention the actual Bible#but I cannot wrap my head around Him actually fully loving me or liking me personally
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does anyone have any genuine resources on how to know if you have moral ocd without focusing on religion. all the symptom lists i can find literally include "not feeling worthy of gods love" and like i only just now started thinking seriously about god for the first time in a decade less than a few months ago. i dont care. i just want to know if quite literally crying begging for people to tell me whether I'm doing something wrong nearly daily is uh. not average.
#and the constant self-doubt and self hatred over questioning if I'm part of a new community#took me an actual 4 years to make any effort to actually interact with the plural community#i still don't really interact with most queer communities im a part of other than like. aro shit#and that's only bc im so definitively aro it's the one thing i do not doubt at all. as well as ace#everythin else tho? man idk#i just want some even just Slightly less vague answers than I've been getting which so far is just 'i dunno. could be. might not be'#i always felt like i couldn't have ocd because of the fact that i leave my room messy (stereotype i know)#but like at this point im really feeling like the moral ocd is a thing for me bc like. man i just have genuinely crippling anxiety#even over just using a word like 'crippling' because i know it's seen as a slur but it's. a me slur. my legs don't work right#i consider myself cripplepunk i reclaim it for myself yknow#but i feel like i Have to add that clarification because what if i don't and someone sends me death threats over it#idk man. i want to stop being so anxious about people all the time#moral ocd
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ok ok, I’d like to settle this once and for all.
My mom is convinced I have OCD. I don’t think I have OCD. So let me ask y’all this:
It’s normal to wash your hands after taking a shower or washing dishes, right?
Please tell me this makes sense to somebody else.
#questions#ocd things#mental health#mental health question#I’m gonna tag it like that even though though I doubt I have OCD#Look just because I’m weird about what I consider ‘clean’ and ‘dirty’#And wash my hands twice after using the bathroom#And have a tendency to get into bad habits like blinking a certain way or tensing my muscles#Or patterns being ‘symmetrical’#And sometimes get into weird ‘echoing’ thought patterns where I repeat the same thought over and over#Does NOT mean I have OCD right?#I mean I’ve powered through some of that stuff before#especially the sanitation thing#So surely#I’m just weird but mentally normal enough#…right?
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i wish slurs were never invented
#im so sick of being terrified of accidently saying them#i have to tripple check everything i write to make sure i didnt somehow type it. also terrified im gonna say one. (this is an ocd thing)#like im a leftist or liberal or wtv but sometimes i wish that i didnt have to walk on eggshells everytime i say smth.#i feel like even the irl workd is becoming like twt#you get someones pronouns wrong on ACCIDENT. instantly youre labeled as transphobic.#i once said a slur (i was like 12) and didnt even have a concept of slurs. i didnt know what it meant. i thought it meant smth else.#and as a literal child everyone was like “YOU SAID A SLUR OMG YOU SAID A SLUR” and i was so confused and scared.#i just responded “whats a slur?” and they were still on my ass about it. didnt answer my question. another time someone called someone#the asian slur and i was a literal child and just asked “whats does ____ mean?” and they YELLED AT ME ?? I DIDNT KNOW ?? I WAS SEVEN ???#sorry like. idk.#.txt♥
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questioning sexuality is so exhausting
#(edit: sorry for the rant in the tags and i just. i want someone to talk to me)#i keep on doing it for no apparent reason#someone was talking about lust yesterday and i realised today that.#even tho id thought i don't experience it. i possibly do. but exclusively towards women.#i hate it here!#for a multitude of reasons i will never have a relationship with a woman but! i may be incapable of having a relationship with a man!#at some point in the last few months i have abruptly pivoted from definitely wanting marriage and kids to being ambivalent on marriage#and not wanting kids. that's such an outlier in my life that it might just be a mental health thing tho idk#but at the same time i. want to be loved.#i don't know what i want anymore and im tired of questioning myself#i definitely overthink it but idk how to stop it#and i hate hate hate how the moral obsessions have bee lately#this isn't entirely related but it kind of is#like Am i a terrible morally bankrupt person for having certain thoughts or is it just religious ocd go brrrr?? am i overthinking it?#i don't know. i don't know!#for a while labelling myself as arospec ace kinda calmed that down but. i don't know#i do't want to be attracted to women. i don't want to have to look away so often. i don't want any of that.#but i don't know how to stop it.#i don't even know if i'm attracted to men at all.#this is a cry for help and encouragement and prayers no matter what your views on these matters are#queer stuff tag#i nearly fessed up to my friend yesterday about same sex attraction and i might've except that it would have probably outed me as#the person who anonymously sent in a question several months ago about the side b movement to a church thing#ive only told one person at church about any of that sort of stuff and it was very vaguely worded#also see: this friend is the mother of the boy i?? i don't even know how i feel about him#i increasingly think it wasn't romantic at all. but i don't know#i would love any encouragement you got. anything at all.#i don't know how much this stuff is affected by the fact that i consider myself unloveable and think it highly unlikely any boy will ever#care for me#now im rambling. sorry
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Sorry I know everyone hates the terms special interest and hyperfixation now and thinks they’re overused for ppl who just have a hobby but they really describe how I can get about certain subjects or media where it’s like to the point that it’s actively hard for me to think or talk about other things…like I will do it but god is it hard. you did not want to know me as a kid, if you tried to talk to me about something other than horses or the tv show bones I probably would have started crying
#before I was diagnosed with autism my parents thought it was my OCD and just called me obsessive about everything lol#I used to make my parents ask me trivia questions about my favorite tv shows bc it’s all I wanted to talk about#maybe this is why everyone found me so annoying like you know what tough but fair!#idek how to describe it I think the main thing for me is it’s not always enjoyable ??? like it’s not FUN to constantly feel this way#about something u know isn’t really such a big deal to anyone else 😭 …anyway#personal
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