OCD Rabbit

Newly diagnosed and learning to deal. She/her

[ravenlynclemens]

moral scrupulosity

[ocdrabbit]

Mine has been really bad this week, this made me feel less alone. ❤️

[raimi]

To anyone dealing with intrusive thoughts who's going to have surgery:

You will not start talking about your intrusive thoughts while you're high on anesthetic. You will not start acting on your intrusive thoughts while you're high on anesthetic. The part of your brain responsible for your intrusive thoughts will be just as loopy as the rest of you and it's more likely that you won't even be experiencing intrusive thoughts at all in those moments.

[bessiesbrainblog]

Take Photos of Stove Dials Before You Leave for Vacation

If you’re the kind of person who spends the first ten minutes of the Lyft ride to the airport worrying that you accidentally left the oven on—even if you didn’t even use the oven that day—you can quell your anxious brain with a quick smartphone precaution.

…before leaving the house, take a photo of your stove and oven dials—or your thermostat, or your iron, or anything else you worry about accidentally leaving on. If your brain starts to play the “Did I really turn it off” game, you can simply tap your photo app and see for yourself

[ntro9]

Reblogging to save a life

[thegirlinthebyakko]

this is a good strategy

[prof-grace-aspen]

I can imagine this being incredibly helpful for some people with OCD, as well as folks like me with anxiety disorders combined with ADHD (so lack of executive function which leads to frequently forgetting things which leads to legitimizing the fears from the anxiety since a lot of the time I DID forget The Thing…)

[creekfiend]

I have to remember every 5 years that when I was a little kid my dad was having obsessive spirals about things he did wrong like 30 years prior and his talked to his therapist about it and you know what they did NOT say. They did not say "hmmm well have you learned your lesson changed your behavior and atoned?"

They said "that sounds like a really unhelpful and distressing thing that your brain is making you think about All The Time. How about when that happens you try to think about something that makes you happy instead"

(My dad carried a picture of me at age 4 with a large inflatable dinosaur in his wallet for this purpose) (hard to ruminate about past failures when looking at a picture of your kid enjoying a large inflatable dinosaur)

Anyway. Fucking... stop thinking you can Solve Ethics by spiraling you fool. It's the Ethics Cuckoo. Fuck that guy

[ocdrabbit]

I need to hear this some days.

[katesattic]

Are you a “I don’t check my notifications. I have 2538 unread emails” mentally ill and/or neurodivergent person or a “ I have to check all my notifications because that little red bubble in the right corner of every app fucks with my vibe” mentally ill and/or neurodivergent person?

[ocdrabbit]

I oscillate VIOLENTLY between the two.

GO AWAY RED BUBBLE I MUST DESTROY YOU

OH NO THATS TOO MANY NUMBERS NOPE NOPE RUN AWAY

[kerink]

i know we're all sick of self-care being a marketing tactic now, but i don't think a lot of us have any other concept of self-care beyond what companies have tried to sell us, so i thought i'd share my favorite self-care hand out

brought to you by how mad i just got at a Target ad

[thatocdfeel]

your OCD is Kramer

[ocdrabbit]

Actually, I like this. Mostly because it’s really easy for me to roll my eyes at Kramer and just disregard his nonsense. Maybe if I picture the intrusive thought as some bs Kramer is saying, it might be easier to roll my eyes and dismiss it the same way...?

[one-day-silence]

Anyone else freak out completely when you lose something dumb to the point you destroy your house trying to find the stupid little object.

[ocdrabbit]

Heckkkkk is this an ocd thing? I get SO riled up because I just sAW THIS THING THE OTHER DAY AND UGGG I COULD HAVE SWORN IT WAS RIGHT HERE, IT SHOULD BE RIGHT HERE WHERE IS IT jdnfjdasnrja

[moved-to-transzoemurphy-deactiv]

[theweirdwideweb]

[ocdrabbit]

I was just posting about this. Kismet.

[ocdrabbit]

So I’ve been learning a bunch about exposure therapy after my therapist went over it, but it’s a while before I have my next appointment and in the meantime I’ve been trying to figure out how to apply it to myself, because... a lot of my ocd tendencies aren’t physical? Like, how do you do exposure with scrupulosity ocd?

[arkories-deactivated20211120]

Meet OCD.

[incorrect-trekquotes]

bones: bottling up negative emotions is bad

spock: that’s why you also bottle up positive emotions

[ocdrabbit]

Okay, normally I’d reblog this on my Star Trek blog but dang if it doesn’t apply to my ocd.

[ocdrabbit]

I’m out here leveraging my compulsions against each other... Like, my need to finish knitting this entire row is greater than my need to scratch/pick. I’m going to call that a net win?

[paganinpurple]

Little meme I made because, even after explaining this to my dad for the 436th time, even though he also has it and can’t stop, he said to me once again today to “just stop picking” my skin.

[margomoment]

Sorry for being so loud

[pamesjatterson]

One of the worst feelings is when you feel a hyperfixiation slipping.. Like no.. Youre so sexy pls keep giving me happy chemical

[ocdrabbit]

I’m slowly learning how to just “be” during these times in between hyperfixations, but it’s still hard.