[grasswyrm]

Been getting really into orange juice lately

[grasswyrm]

#myjuice

[miaowzieks]

use this power responsibly

[miamaimania]

Decades of patience, visible only from above ◎ Japan

[90-ghost]

Happy birthday

Thank you 🫶🏼

[gayrat-deactivated19690420]

90-ghost has done so much for the people of Palestine. He is trying to get the rest of his family out of there while the war rages on, so to show your support, please donate to his sister's and brother's respective Paypals!

Help support Samar Saed Kamel Saed by donating or sharing with your friends.

Pay omar saad using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/bushrabo and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Happy (belated) 32nd birthday, Ahmed. I hope you know how much you've done to help the Palestinian people. I might not have any money, but I shall always do my best to spread your hard work and the words of others.

[90-ghost]

Thank you so much man i appreciate you and what u do for us 🫶🏼❤️

Peace and love ❤️

[wizardarchetypes]

u think ocd therapy is impossible to do yourself and that it's all too big to start but you can get workbooks or even just try small things.

a lot of my ritual behaviors are "checking"

self-guided ocd exposure therapy can be as simple as resisting the urge to check if your door is locked more than once and sitting with the discomfort until it passes without engaging in any reassurance rituals.

it can look like sending an email and resisting the urge to re-read it over and over again obsessing over your wording, sitting with the discomfort until it passes without engaging in any reassurance rituals.

some of my rituals are also "avoidance"

in which case it can look like checking your email inbox you've been obsessively avoiding because you're anxious about receiving a specific email you don't want to see.

and YEP! ☝️

sitting with the discomfort until it passes without engaging in any reassurance rituals.

[wizardarchetypes]

!!!

it might be hard to believe, but learning distress tolerance for things like "checking" with emails and door locks actually prepared me for the Big Ones like harm and sexual OCD themes.

I think this article from 2007 is a good introduction to the basic concepts of exposures:

Self Directed Treatment for OCD The Irony of Doing the Opposite By Paul R. Munford, Ph.D.        I remember a movie in which one of the char

that SAID, a lot has changed since 2007! the idea that exposure therapy can (or even should) prevent fears from every happening has come into question!

now the conversation about OCD exposure has turned to training distress tolerance:

...rather than aiming for the decline of anxiety (habituation) during exposure, the inhibitory learning approach to ERP teaches people how to be open-minded toward experiencing anxiety and fear when these experiences inevitably show up. Indeed, fear and anxiety (and other emotions in OCD such as disgust or guilt) are universal and even adaptive experiences, not something that need to be “fixed” or gotten rid of. Most importantly, even if they can be unwanted, intense, and distressing, these emotions and thoughts are safe. From an inhibitory learning perspective, fear extinction (and long-term improvement in OCD) depends not only on learning that feared stimuli are safe, but that it is also safe to experience the emotional response that is triggered by these stimuli.

It should be noted that all of the following procedures are still currently being researched. While there is evidence to suggest that they c

And remember at the end of the day I AM NOT a specialist. I am discussing my own OCD journey and referencing the available material on OCD exposures.

I'm not always right, and I can't know what's best for you.

Which is why I haven't recommended any of the old workbooks I've completed, because some of them are old enough that there are better ones to follow that I haven't gotten to trying yet!

I recommend doing your own reading from OCD-aware organizations:

The International OCD Foundation

The mission of the International OCD Foundation is to help those affected by obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders to li

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | Made of Millions Foundation

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder that causes unwanted intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and mental or physical ritua

[setdeco]

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, The Rookery Building Oriel Staircase, Chicago, 1905

[viagginterstellari]

Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon, 2020

[cheaphalloweencostume]

oh god. i just learned that you have to finish the art you’re making in order for it to be done

[pimientosdulces]

guess what I’m replaying

[bewbin]

EVERYOBODY GET DOWN HES TAKING A CREATIVE LIBERTY

[carmen-photography]

Rock Textures - Norway 2026

[redstonedust]

number one thing i want for public bathrooms is for them to be unisex accessible safe private and clean. number two thing i want for pubic bathrooms is for them to have flat surfaces in the stalls you can put your handheld items down on when youre shittin. ive encountered it in like two bathrooms ever and it changed my life for real.

[wirovin]

[yhowdy]

Hot fucking take but I don’t want my fandom misogyny to be solved with more wlw ships. I don’t want my fandom misogyny to be solved with ships period. A lack of wlw representation? Sure. But if you think that women can only be important if they’re in a romantic relationship then you are part of the problem.

[cultisteyeball]

The joys of just opening a window

[unbelievablekats]

Getting high on open window air

[hawberries]

hi. i late losing. do you ever get depressed? i'm in a great mood right now and it is NOT a manic state. anyway, i've googled 10,000 volleyball facts. fact one: the volleyball is a horse and he loves me

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