[ozempicofficial]

[typingwithmyhandstied]

a friend with a boyfriend is a type of dead wife

[64mpg]

finishing something you worked really hard for feels like nothing

[nauticalradical]

i slowed down the audio of this vine and it now seems like the dog turned of the lights and freaked out the camera man

[sonypraystation]

this man is being murdered and you cowards just sit and watch

[averagebiboy]

You ever just wanna fuck?

[segamascott]

not really

[kushblazer666]

[wingkink]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

[forestgreenandgray]

Hey do you know what rumination is?

Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.

Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.

Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.

I'll say it again:

Rumination is a compulsion.

Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.

I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.

And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.

Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.

Like this was genuinely life changing for me.

Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:

Defining Rumination

How to Stop Ruminating

ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination

What to Do When You're Triggered

[pnglove]

Mate, you’ve got a chubby lizard on your dashboard

[markscherz]

Graced by Geckolepis typica from Madagascar. I love that they’re quite round creatures and then they have these dainty little toes. Also, their scales are full bone and both scale and skin come off when they get grabbed, which is…unpleasant. Consequently, catching these geckos for research without damaging them requires special techniques. 19th century researchers used bundles of cotton wool, but I imagine this wasn’t very effective, because cotton still has a lot of friction and the friction would pull the skin and scales off. In my (quite extensive) experience, the best technique is to carefully and quickly flick the geckos from their tree trunk or branch into an open dry plastic bag using a finger or stick.

[mrskayathefrog]

'scuse me, Mr @markscherz, does it harm the gecko for the scales to come off?

like, of course it harms them but... can they grow back? like how some lizards can drop their tails and eventually the tails grow back

[markscherz]

Not only do they grow back, but they come back so well that we cannot even tell where they have ripped off before. This is very weird, because when a lizard loses its tail, it is very obvious where it has been lost and regrown. Not so these chaps. They seek out a humid place to hide, and within a few weeks, skin and scales have started to regrow. The fact that they can do this so well is the reason a team has just sequenced their genome. I believe it is hoped that the skin regeneration tech they have built into their cells could eventually be harnessed for human skin grafts.

[mothtowers]

the establishment fears the humble late bloomer. while you were experiencing the worst dramas of your life through high school dating I was still playing with toys

[tall]

[antiadvil]

as someone who used to get really stuck on the concept of what a "normal" amount of headaches is (I know some people will say it's zero, which is true in a sense, but I don't think it's helpful, because the majority of people will experience at least one headache in their lifetime, and no one would go to the doctor for two mild headaches spaced a decade apart), I hope this can help someone else in a similar situation: at 4 headache days a month, the international headache society recommends starting preventative treatment for migraine (if you're getting 4+ "bad headache" days a month, it's probably migraine. there are other things it could be, but statistically? probably migraine).

I wouldn't say less than 4 headache days a month is "normal." but 4 is definitely a lot.

[fruitcube]

anyways i got top surgery and i dont really like it and i feel like a fraud and an idiot and i wanna kill myself

[kosmogrl]

being around people with completely different mindsets

[fairycosmos]

when i was like 5 i started waiting for something and never stopped

[biocrafthero]

perceived skill

[melancholic-whimsy]

they hate me for my flat facial expressions and inability to contribute to conversations