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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

#resources

homoeroticjunoincident

reblog to make prev stop having headaches

#leave rogue alone!!!!

neenarchive

they can't stop you from thinking about gay sex on company time

dinomoder

This is the best ad for Project Hail Mary I have ever seen. Like if I was on the fence about watching or reading it, this would convince me to do so.

#project hail mary

52stations

i've got the kind of eyebags that make people in movies say 'you look like hell, detective. go home.'

luna-azzurra

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

#character stuff

draconym

do you think two pennies is still enough for the ferryman or has inflation driven up the fare

draconym

if he makes me use an app I am simply not crossing the river Styx.

yesornopolls

have you ever listened to a song that moved you so deeply it brought you to tears?

Have you ever listened to a song that moved you so deeply it brought you to tears?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 2 days 8 hours

#Drinking song for the socially anxious by The Amazing Devil #Thank you by Half-Alive #God must hate me by Catie Turner #My body’s my buddy by Tessa Violet #Stop this train by John Mayer #Saturn by Sleeping at Last #Over the Rainbow by Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole #pretty solid list #they make me cry #listen to these at your own peril haha

loxare

I think my favourite part of the hadestown proshoot is when Eurydice says, "Is he always like this?" and Hermes, who has seen this story a thousand thousand times, who has tried again and again to warn Orpheus not to come on too strong, says with Extreme Exhaustion in his voice, "Yes."

#hadestown