Sophia_Forever!

Not just for a little while! | She/Her | Posts a lot about Star Trek, shitposts, and the occasional Star Trek shitpost.

[shiverandqueeef]

how measurements work in canada (ie/ badly)

[your-dads-filing-cabinet]

@/teaboot

[teaboot]

This isn't even a joke it's just what we do

[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

[jonathanarcher]

[jonathanarcher]

there is not a unit of time currently in existence small enough that it could accurately measure just how fast archer would kill tuvix

[sophiaforevs]

Yeah, and I want to be clear here, Janeway has some legs to stand on. I vehemently disagree with her decision but I understand why she made it and can see her humanity in it. Archer would just be like "No, fuck that guy."

[liz-squids]

There is a whole episode of Enterprise where Archer creates a Tuvix (okay, a clone of Trip that's allowed to grow to adulthood so they can harvest his organs for Real Trip) and then kills him. He is literally the villain in a Lois McMaster Bujold novel. He doesn't get a fraction as much criticism for this as Janeway for Tuvix.

[garaks-padded-cell]

What would you do if you met your completely ideal hookup like 100% your type and down to clown but when you get to their room its completely barren like unfurnished and bare save for 1 poster for the 1995 film Indian in the Cupboard. Wpuld u sstill smash. Theres no bed

[sophiaforevs]

How starved for affection am I in this scenario?

[voltaspistol]

[kinggizzard]

im quitting tumblr

[wwubwubwubwuubwub-deactivated20]

ok see u tomorrow

[kinggizzard]

this post is now 10 fucking years old

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[teaboot]

I think that we should start an urban legend for nipless top surgery folks. Something like "If you purple nurple someone hard enough they actually turn purple and fall off". So that someday a kid will see me at the beach or something and I can be like "It Could Happen To You"

[fluoresensitives]

happy pride to Black lesbians and Black trans women!

[utopians]

life becomes so beautiful when you start cooking rice in liquids other than water

[utopians]

put that basmati rice in the cooker with coconut cream and chicken stock and an entire onion that you've diced and sauteed with garlic until transparent. and some salt and pepper. Trust me

[youaremyeverlovin]

[effemimaniac]

"Uncle Benadryl's one minute rice" one minute what? awake? left to live?

[hubblegleeflower]

New Tumblr is now such that I cannot just go to the post with the recipe but must reblog the gatorade and uncle benadryl if I ever hope to make rice with coconut cream.

[teaboot]

mr boot unfortunately I think the anon meant that "tranny is not for trans men" (which is not true)

lmao that's even MORE wild. I'm not going to engage in infighting between brothers sibbers 'n' sisters, what am I, a fed?

[textsfromsuperheroes]

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[hollowtones]

Holly how long should i boil my noodles for

If you don’t want to read the package directions I’m going to tell you to boil them for about thirty minutes & enjoy my new meal (name of “Wet Incident”)

[notbecauseofvictories]

Also, I know it's not technically the trad wives' fault, but I do resent the fact that now, whenever I fantasize about running a quirky bookshop where I spend most of the day reading behind the counter, or becoming a diner owner who cooks down balsamic vinegar and cures salmon for rapturously grateful townies, there's a nasty voice that whispers---be honest. your fantasy would require outsourcing tasks (labor) to someone who cannot refuse the attendant effort of monitoring book stock, or sourcing beef, or all the little ignominious things necessary to create such a lovely dream. White women have been doing that for ages, plus you're feeding into the Hallmark/Ballerina Farms/trad wife lie. You know better.

I do not like that voice.

[garaks-padded-cell]

Happy pride to da lesbiangs

[jonathanarcher]

[jonathanarcher]

there is not a unit of time currently in existence small enough that it could accurately measure just how fast archer would kill tuvix

[sophiaforevs]

Yeah, and I want to be clear here, Janeway has some legs to stand on. I vehemently disagree with her decision but I understand why she made it and can see her humanity in it. Archer would just be like "No, fuck that guy."

[animentality]

[feminist-space]

[feminist-space]