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zupawama · 2 years
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i am once again asking people i know to do actual research on OCD and what it is b/c i saw someone equating POCD to actual predatory shit recently and i think im going to break out of my enclosure . OCD is not about “subconscious desires” it’s about fear. fears, aversions and repulsions, both subconscious and conscious. OCD forces you to obsess over things that make you anxious, scared, uncomfortable, or disgusted. possibilities (about yourself, your future, your loved ones and their futures, etc) that would give you nightmares if you considered them for too long.  literally the second you start thinking OCD may be about “subconscious desires” you have lost. you made an immediate left turn when you were supposed to make a right and now you’re on a completely different road. this applies to all forms of OCD by the way, even the most “disgusting”, taboo or “disturbing”. whichever form of OCD you’re thinking may be an exception to this rule, is not an exception. b/c there is none
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aplpaca · 1 year
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thinking about how I've seen OCD get talked about now, but haven't really seen many posts that actually explain what it is. And like, obviously people shouldn't get all their info about mental conditions from posts, but u can't deny that internet communities and stuff play a major role in people recognizing and putting names to their own experiences.
But like since the general public has like absolutely no idea of what OCD actually is (no thanks to popular media), and a lot of things I see talking about intrusive thoughts don't mention OCD (either bc they originated in OCD circles or bc intrusive thoughts aren't Exclusive to OCD or for some other reason), there should prob be more explanation put out on what OCD actually consists of.
Which is kinda hard in some ways, bc there are so many ways OCD can present in terms of what "themes" a person experiences, so someone talking about what their themes are might not ring a bell with someone who experiences different ones. But like, the core thing with OCD isn't the presence of certain themes, it's a specific pattern of spiraling thoughts and reactions.
Like. OCD is a mental condition/illness where people experience stressful, unwanted, repetitive thoughts. These are intrusive thoughts are what make up the "obsessions" part of the disorder. In response to these intrusive thoughts, a lot of people will perform certain actions or think certain things in an attempt to neutralize or disprove the threat they represent. These are the "compulsions" part of the condition.
For a more "traditional" example, someone experiencing intrusive thoughts that they might catch a communicable disease may obsessively wash their hands or google their symptoms to try to lessen the anxiety. While someone who is worried they might hurt someone (even though they very much do not want to hurt someone) may avoid being near sharp objects or may avoid the people they're afraid of hurting.
One of the issues with OCD is that performing the compulsions provides short term relief, but in the long term it only strengthens the stress caused by the intrusive thoughts, thus furthering the thought spiral and actively making it worse, to the point where, depending on your themes, you may be (almost) convinced that your intrusive thoughts represent the truth or the inevitable or something permanent.
Intrusive thought themes cam be literally anything, but some of the common ones are stuff like
Questioning your sexuality, gender, etc (what if I'm actually straight/gay/bi/trans/cis/etc?)
Being worried about losing control and hurting yourself or others physically, sexually, emotionally, basically any way (what if I want to kill someone? What if I'm a pedophile? What if I'm an abuser? What if I want to stab myself? Etc)
Fear of becoming or being sick
Worrying something bad will happen to you or people you care about
Worrying about your spiritual beliefs or lack thereof (what if I'm actually Christian? What if I'm actually atheist? What if i don't believe in the faith i ascribe to? Etc)
Worrying about relationship status (what if I don't actually love them? What if they're not "the one"? What if they're cheating? What if *I'm* cheating? Etc)
What if I'm a bad person?
Fear of losing things
Fear of things not feeling right (this is often be related to other themes via magical thinking. ex: if I don't have my things organized Just Right then something bad will happen)
Fear of unreality
Compulsions vary by theme a lot obviously, but some common ones include
Hand washing
Organizing things until they Feel Right
Checking and double checking and triple checking to make sure you did something correctly
Obsessively reviewing your memories to disprove a thoughtor make sure you don't believe something
Arguing against the thoughts in an attempt to disprove them
Testing your mental reactions to a thought or to certain kinds of content, to show yourself you don't actually believe or feel something
Obsessively googling symptoms, testimonies, things related to your thoughts
Obsessive prayer
Repeating phrases, mantras, affirmations, etc in an attempt to make thoughts go away
Avoiding things and situations that set off your intrusive thoughts
Repeatedly asking for reassurance from others ("I'm not being xyz, right?")
But yeah this obviously isn't exhaustive but, just, if this kind of thing sounds familiar, you should probably do some research on OCD, bc while intrusive thoughts can occur with other conditions, the intrusive thought-compulsion spiral is the core of OCD and isn't really a subaspect of depression/anxiety/ptsd/etc. and the treatment and management of OCD can look different from other stuff, so its a good thing to look into.
(Also it's important to keep in mind, esp if you're someone that doesn't have it, that someone's intrusive thoughts Are Not "secret desires" or "repressed urges" or anything the person even remotely wants to act on. Someone having harm-related intrusive thoughts is not at risk of actually acting on them, no matter how worried they are of doing so.)
Anyway this was a long post and I don't have a neat way to wrap it up and also I accidentally added a poll and now can't get rid of it so here's free poll. I'm running on nyquil and a small amount of straight gin (which works very well at numbing a sore throat) rn gnite
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avoiding ocd unsafe posts on tumblr
so i've been experimenting a while with filtering phrases, and here is a list i've come up with that i use to get posts that trigger my ocd / have compulsive language off my dash! this ends up taking out about 95% of these posts. i'm sharing it here so anyone who also wants to blacklist this stuff can as well.
it is helpful to me as someone with ocd to blacklist these phrases and makes tumblr much more accessible, so i hope it can also help others with ocd and similar mental illnesses (or people who just find this stuff aggravating)
phrases to blacklist that are usually used in compulsive statements related to tumblr actions:
asking for reblog
follows>likes
follows > likes
hit that reblog
ignore for
i know you see this
keep reblogging
must reblog
obligated to reblog
obligated to vote
people can reblog
people reblog
please rb
please reblog
please share
rb after voting
rb for
rb if u vote
rb if you vote
rbs > likes
rbs>likes
rb this
reblog after voting
reblog bait (people use this one as a trigger tag, so this one is better under filtered tags instead of filtered post content)
reblog for (this one tends to catch a lot of non-compulsive posts, but leaving it out allows a lot of compulsive posts onto the dash, so it's a tossup if you want to include it)
reblog for exposure
reblog if u vote
reblog if you vote
reblog it every time
reblogs > likes
reblogs>likes
reblog this
remember to reblog
required by law to
sample size
you will reblog
just filtering the word "reblog" will also work as a catchall for most of these, but will also catch a lot of non-compulsive posts, so this list is meant to minimize that effect.
how to blacklist post content
on desktop/web: settings > account > filtered post content (should be right under filtered tags), at this url
on mobile/app: settings > account settings > content you see > filtered post content (again will be right under filtered tags)
how you can make tumblr more accessible for people with ocd and similar mental illnesses
tag posts with compulsive statements as "#reblog bait"
avoid using compulsive statements in posts - according to polls, this makes people less likely to reblog anyway! (poll 1) (poll 2)
if you are able to, avoiding sharing posts with aggressively compulsive statements would help. for example, those "reblog for good luck ignore and you'll never have good luck again" type posts, or things with "rules". i saw a lighthearted tournament with "From now on, if you see a matchup post - even accidentally - you are immediately morally obligated to vote one way or the other. Refusing to vote is strictly forbidden" in the pinned post. this is an example of an ocd unsafe statement. (op of that poll is not malicious though and removed that when told it was inaccessible).
avoid implying that reblogging, following, voting, etc or not doing so carries a moral value.
while reblogging a post may be very small stakes in itself, things like this can trigger compulsions that spiral into more than just reblogging a post. this is why this stuff is important even if it's small-stakes by itself.
you are under no obligation to share this.
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ojibwa · 1 year
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i guess this is vent art sort of? anyways look at these weirdos
i know there's several ocd creatures already but i didn't vibe with any of them so here's mine. its name is smh creature. it moves around by hiding into the ground and then reemerging (at the worst possible moment) but can also slide around.
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isorottatime · 9 months
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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!!!!!!!!!
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goose-onthe-loose · 8 months
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angelicdazed · 6 months
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im slamming my brain against the bars and it isn't helping i can't get out t
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crippleculture · 27 days
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ed-recoverry · 1 year
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genderagenda · 3 months
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i think we need to talk about more how ocd can hijack every single one of your thoughts until there is no such thing as a "normal"/"non-ocd" thought anymore, but not only that, it can ALSO make this into *another* ocd thing, by obsessively trying to figure out whether a thought is an ocd thought or not.
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cheeseanonioncrisps · 2 years
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Maybe controversial, but normalise people being able to talk about their mental illnesses without it being treated like they're asking for an in depth conversation or therapy session about it.
I have OCD. Sometimes it acts up more than usual. Sometimes talking about my intrusive thoughts to other people is beneficial, sometimes it isn't.
Sometimes I just want to be able to mention that "my OCD is bugging me" in the same way I'd say "I have a headache" or "I think I'm getting a cold" and just have the person I tell be like "aw, that sucks" without having to make a big deal out of it. Sometimes I want to be able to mention that I used to be in therapy in casual conversation and have it be treated no differently than if I'd mentioned having once gone to the doctor.
This is something that I have dealt with in one way or another all my life (at least since I was a small child) and may well have to deal with forever. Sometimes it's basically just background noise, occasionally it's completely incapacitating and a lot of the time it's somewhere between the two, but it's something that I have to put up with.
I feel like a lot of the people who do this are just trying to be accepting and understanding, which is admirable, but by ensuring that the topic of mental illness is always going to be approached as a Big Important Conversation, you're basically ensuring that your mentally ill friends can only be open about their mental state when they feel like/have the spoons for Big Important Conversations, which is likely to discourage them from actually bringing it up.
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aplpaca · 8 months
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ocd spirals are like this gif on loop for hours except the I'm Okay's get gradually less common and less "believable" as it goes on
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solargeist · 3 months
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catching myself
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amajorsystem · 10 months
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babygirl my brain has moral discourse twitter hasn't even THOUGHT of yet
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wheelie-sick · 2 months
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*every time I bake something with eggs*
"what if the eggs are bad. the eggs are bad. did you check the eggs? they might be bad. what if the eggs went bad. the eggs definitely went bad. you're gonna give everyone you care about food poisoning because the eggs are bad. the eggs might be bad. check the eggs they might be bad. the people around you are never going to trust your cooking again because the eggs are bad. you're so irresponsible for not checking the eggs they might be bad. where is your food safety training you need to check the eggs"
literally shut the fuck up the eggs are not bad
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