OCD Culture Is...

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Hello! This was inspired by @ndcultureis @adhd-culture-is @queercutlureis @abro--culture--is @transmasc-culture-is and the other -culture blogs, but for OCD!

Please begin every post with “OCD culture is” or any variation like “OCD lgbtq culture is”

This blog is strictly self-diagnosis inclusive and all intrusive thought kinds are allowed. However, please feel free to dm or send an ask if you need something tagged with a tw that I haven’t already applied!

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questioning ocd culture is seeing an ask talking about bfrbs, looking it up, and realizing that you have a few of them. I may have to do some more research dsjllkjslk

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ocd culture is feeling like you can never talk about it with your friends because none of them understand, and because of that, for some reason, feeling the constant need to "prove" you have ocd, despite them not being understanding technically being a point in your favour

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ocd culture is noticing the slightest change in your body and immediately panicking and convincing yourself that you’re dying!

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ocd culture is analyzing your own reactions and emotions as a compulsion to see if you feel the "correct" amount of anxiety about an intrusive thought

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OCD culture is feeling too scared to even try to recover because youre scared that if you let yourself become desensitized to the intrusive thoughts and stop caring about them, then that also means you wont care if the fear comes true and that would make you a horrible person

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ocd culture is having an overactive brain that visualizes everything it imagines or reads, which then results in it visualizing some of the horrific disgusting stuff you read in crime-related news articles, which causes you to question to how your brain could even allow itself picture such a horrible thing if you didnt secretly like the thing you were reading

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OCD culture is reading the OCD culture page and breaking down a bit because there are people who get it and you’re not alone with your massive scary thoughts anymore

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Questioning OCD culture is finding this blog, researching about OCD and then realizing that the symptoms are too familiar with you and you're scared that you might be faking it.

On the lighter side, even if it doesn't turn out to be OCD via professional diagnosis (when I'll be an adult), I'll at least have a better understanding of it now.

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OCD culture is having a favorite number (mine is 5, certain things I do/get have to be divisible by 5 :'3)

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OCD culture is having very obvious symptoms of OCD as a child but everyone ignoring it because "8 year olds can't have a mental illness".

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ocd culture is hardly ever showering because the shower isn't clean enough and even cleaning up the gross stuff in it is too gross to be able to do so you're greasy and miserable all the time

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OCD culture is not being able to stand next to railings because you feel like otherwise you'd throw yourself over the side

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OCD culture is having your family tell you you’re being irrational as if you don’t already know that

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OCD culture is starting a "fun, stress-free" roleplay with someone and then it slowly morphing into low-key torture as you automatically start to mirror their exact writing style, no matter how wrong or grammatically incorrect, as well as forcing yourself to reply to everything in an instant, because your brain tells you that the other person will hate you and think you're stupid if you don't.

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existential ocd culture is thinking you were the second coming of socrates or something until you realized its a type of ocd, and then wondering if some/all philosophers just had ocd, and then going back and forth in your head about whether youre really deep and smart or just ocd or just an emo poet

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OCD culture is spending hours looking up extremely specific things for a story you're writing, and then losing motivation hallway through writing the story because you're so burnt out.

(For context, this is not the only time I've done something like this, but once I spent four hours trying to look up the exact price of bread in (specifically) 1892, in fear that someone would call me out and say my writing, which was just a small fanfic, was historically incorrect.)