✧ mod is NOT a professional!!! just a person diagnosed with ocd who has a lot of experience in treatment, has read a lot about it, and wants to help raise awareness :)
✧ this blog is a safe space for lgbtq+ folks, disabled + mentally ill people (obviously lol), women, and poc. if i ever mess up on a sensitive subject, politics, etc, please send me an ask or a message!!!
✧ all of the experiences talked about on this blog are my own.
✧ i have been diagnosed with ocd and in treatment (various types of therapy + medication) since i was seven years old.
✧ i have various other disorders alongside ocd that have influenced my experience with it. i have adhd, generalized anxiety disorder, sensory processing disorder, arfid, depression, trichtilliomania, dermatilliomania, and i am currently in the process of getting testing for autism. (i don’t usually advise sharing so much of your personal medical info online. but as i want this to be a possible resource for people, i figure knowing what other mental illnesses i have that may affect my experience with ocd would be helpful)
✧ i am also physically disabled and chronically ill.
blog rules
✧ this blog is a safe space for lgbtq+ folks, disabled + mentally ill people (obviously lol), women, and poc. if i ever mess up on a sensitive subject, politics, etc, please send me an ask or a message!!!
✧ feel free to send asks! just remember that i am not a medical professional, and nothing i could say is a substitute for seeing a professional.
✧ as a rule, i generally do not reblog individual gofundmes. i don’t really have the time to verify them myself and i have come across scams before, sorry :(
✧ politics is not necessarily an off limits topic for this blog, as there are many ways politics affects people with ocd. but as one of my own personal issues with ocd is moral scrupulosity ocd, i get being triggered by it, so i will tag it as #politics for easy blacklisting.
✧ speaking of tagging, i tag a variety of triggers and cws as i am aware of them. please just shoot me an ask if you’d like something tagged! everything with the exception of politics (which as said above i will tag as #politics) will be tagged as #cw (insert thing here)
✧ any posts i personally write will be tagged as #mod talks
✧ also this should go without saying but this blog is a passion project, and i have a life outside of it. i may not be consistent in posting.
✧ this should go without saying but this but if you are in a crisis DO NOT COME TO ANY BLOG ON THE INTERNET, including me. please see the links at the very top of this post, as those have trained professionals who are actually equipped to help you. this blog is only to talk about my own experience, spread awareness, and talk to other people about ocd. i am not able to help someone in a crisis.
have a nice day!!! thanks for checking out my blog <3
im gonna be completely for real, saying "a lot of people use the term 'moral ocd' as an excuse for ignoring bad things" is not a good thing to put in your post tagged "#moral ocd"
*practising internet safety* Saw the world's longest or maybe shortest freight train or civilian train or bus or airplane or ferry go by either near or far from or of a middling distance from my apartment/house/duplex/mansion/yurt on a walk today.
some moral ocd haver with 4 followers: hmmm.... i dont know... saying puppies dont deserved to be kicked seems kind of risky. what if im not as well-spoken as i think and people misunderstand me and think im actually pro puppies getting kicked? maybe this can just stay in the drafts. i dont want to come off as an deplorable force of evil
hey, I went to Mad At You Island and it wasn't empty. there was a stranger you were a bit curt with on a bad day, an old friend who you got into a falling out with, a labmate who's experiment you messed up by mistake, someone who's birthday you forgot, an internet stranger who is hellbent on deciding you're not morally good enough for not reblogging a post or not following a one day boycott. and it is kind of mortifying to realise that Mad At You Island will never be uninhabited, but it's just a fact of life. and if you try to reduce the population to zero, you'll end up whittling yourself down to nothing. you'll never please everyone and that's okay
Too much of the "destigmatize mental health struggles!!!" activism isn't about destigmatizing anything, it's all about reassuring people that "you can have X disorder without Y stigmatized symptom" and "not everyone with X disorder has Y stigmatized symptom" and "Y stigmatized symptom is just a negative stereotype actually!" Like these people aren't destigmatizing shit, they're just throwing the severe cases under the bus in the hope of improving the general image of their diagnosis and it's super gross
LIKE OKAY THOUGH can I explain why this is exceedingly brilliant?? Because when anti-depressants work right, that’s what they DO. They don’t make you happy or emotionless or unhealthy in any way, they make you FUNCTIONAL. They make it so that a depressed person who can barely get out of bed can start to support themselves again and more importantly, start to THINK for themselves again without the permeating presence of depression.
Depression is a cyclical disease, that tells you to think a certain way, and, because you’re depressed, you generally believe it, and then things get worse and worse. The ONLY thing anti-depressants do is to STOP that cycle in its tracks!! Which is something to be ecstatic about and celebrated, even if you don’t realize it at the time, because when you’re depressed, getting out of bed is climbing Mount Everest. Antidepressants help stop that cycle so that one day soon, getting out of bed can JUST be getting out of bed. They don’t even expedite the recovery process in most cases, they just make recovery POSSIBLE IN THE FIRST PLACE. So this little guy is portrayed with a fuckton more accuracy than I ever expected from a commercial.
hey, I went to Mad At You Island and it wasn't empty. there was a stranger you were a bit curt with on a bad day, an old friend who you got into a falling out with, a labmate who's experiment you messed up by mistake, someone who's birthday you forgot, an internet stranger who is hellbent on deciding you're not morally good enough for not reblogging a post or not following a one day boycott. and it is kind of mortifying to realise that Mad At You Island will never be uninhabited, but it's just a fact of life. and if you try to reduce the population to zero, you'll end up whittling yourself down to nothing
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