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rocky learns about yawning

Stupid ugly statement

Idk why but as a kid I used to get hysterically upset everytime I would imagine a gif of a rotating cow because I could never stop the cow from rotating no matter how hard I tried and I would be crying and no one knew why

ooppo

chetungwan

This is probably an unnecessary addition, but OCD is missed in cases like these because it's deeply misunderstood by most people.

It's talked about like being obsessively neat or repeating pointless tasks is the main part of it, when really those are just potential symptoms.

The main thing behind OCD is not being about to turn off a thought. There's a thing where most people can just stop thinking about something. If it's over, it's not relevant, it doesn't matter anymore, people can turn their attention away. For OCD, that mechanism can get stuck. And some thought that was supposed to just temporarily pass through your head just stays there. An image of an object rotating. An anxiety about something bad happening. A wish that you made on a dandelion. These are all things that have at some point gotten stuck in my head, sometimes for years at a time.

The compulsions, the rituals, are the person trying to address the thought so it can go away. After all, if you're worried about the door not being locked you can check the lock. But for someone with OCD, that doesn't make the stuck thought go away. So they check it again. And again. And they made a ritual, maybe if I check it exactly five times, I'll know that it's locked and I can let this worry go.

It helps a little. It feels like you're doing something. But it doesn't solve the problem. Actual therapy for OCD involves not doing the compulsion. Instead, you ignore the thought, move around it, try not to give it space in your life. Your mind won't let the thought go normally, so instead you fill yourself with other thoughts. Other parts of your life.

It's not easy at first. Your mind fights you on it. But as you get practice, it gets easier. You learn tricks around your own mind, ways to look at the thought and go, hm. I guess I'll go distract myself now. It does get better. I promise

penrosesun

You know, other people have pointed out that ADHD is perversely named for the ways in which it affects others, rather than for what it actually feels like to have ("are you always worried that your friends hate you and incapable of achieving your goals specifically because they are your goals? you may have 'trouble sitting still in class' syndrome!) – but I think that OCD is in many ways a similar case, especially because "primarily obsessional" OCD (that is, OCD without compulsions) absolutely exists, and is likely under-diagnosed. If people with OCD were naming the condition from scratch, we'd probably call it "Persistent Thought Disorder" or something similar, and consider the rituals that people assume character OCD to be common but non-universal symptoms.

junkratsadstuck

here at the sandwich shop, we’ve started to notice some people who are new to sandwiches aren’t used to meat and cheese between two slices of bread. they find this practice strange and confusing. that’s why we’ve decided to cut the bread out all together. from now on, we’ll just serve slices of meat and cheese on a plate.

junkratsadstuck

we know that many of our loyal sandwich shop customers have been coming here for years to buy our delicious sandwiches. but some people don’t “get” sandwiches, and we need to try and appeal to them with an easier-to-understand meal format. we will no longer be serving sandwiches. all of our food will just be cold cuts on a paper plate. we love our customers and appreciate your understanding <3

derinthescarletpescatarian

Yes we know Craig's Cold Cuts down the street does cold cuts better than we do and has millions of customers. That's why we need to switch to cold cuts, to get their customers. We hope that our long-time sandwich loving customer base will be patient in this transition to cold cuts and welcome the certain influx of Craig's Cold Cut customers who will surely come here to enjoy our worse cold cuts with you, our sandwich-deprived customer base, whom we value so much.

derinthescarletpescatarian

I love how this goes around again every time the tumblr staff does something fucking stupid.

sedlex

Niina Petrokina taking down a bunch of dudes...

catboydan

god i hate how predictable we are. they zoomed in on their hands close together on the train and cut pointedly to their fingers touchng in the next clip and yknow what you're right. i did rewind the video to watch that bit again. you got me dan and phil. you fucking got me

eros-heartache

do-you-have-a-flag

the way that this is like, comprehensible at all? wild

hootenanie

s/o to this skeleton babe from 1936

mxtix

This is a really poignant illustration of the seductive nature of glorifying war but that is a LOOK and she is SERVING it

johnbrownfunclubofficial

I've seen Death depicted as a card dealer or other sort of gambler, a guy in a suit, a farmer, a robed apparition, and any other number of things, but this? This has to be the best Death I've seen yet. An old seductress saying "hey kid, don't you wanna die in a trench for a government that doesn't give a fuck about you, just like your dear old dad?" This goes hard as fuck.

saint-batrick

"I used to know your daddy." kicks like a mule.

foxgirlinfohazard

new fetish: mitochondrial vore. the prey is eaten by the pred and instead of being digested they add a useful function to the pred while being trapped inside them

derinthescarletpescatarian

Kirby

figureskatingpenguin

Kenshi Yonezu & Yuzuru Hanyu: Bow and Arrow | Medalist OP

Yuzuru Hanyu collaborates with Kenshi Yonezu for the music video of "Bow and Arrow", the official opening song for the figure skating anime Medalist.

abdulraveman

yassmines

im losing my mind….shes jus a lil baby…

jenniferrpovey

She’s oiling!

Sea otters have oil glands in their cheeks, and the vigorous rubbing is how they extract the oil, which then forms a layer on top of their fur.

(And yes, she is adorable).

bastardizedmilk

this bitch got a skincare routine! she is THRIVIN!

catherine-clover

The banning of TikTok triggering possibly the largest cultural exchange in human history was not on my 2025 bingo card

kosmogrl

gerardwaysbob

that thumbnail … “one of the many perks of being in a long term relationship” oh i’m sure. just announce that you two go raw in a youtube thumbnail. why not.

this is diabolical