Just thought to share
If you have PDA symptoms (Pathological Demand Avoidance), this might maybe help with explaining it to someone? Idk? Maybe check with ur therapist or something first, I havent really vetted this yet. But.
I basically sometimes can't go to wc. The wc can be free, it's nice, light's on and it's clean, there's no hurry to do anything else. But I still just can't do it for long times sometimes (like right now lol). How the hell do you explain this to someone?
I like to think, what I would say is: Imagine the most terrifying beast you can. Just the most rabid, scary unit of a predator animal that you could realistically run into outside/in nature by chance. A beast that would tear you limb to limb just at the mere sight of you.
Now imagine that thing is in the toiled. Do you wanna go to there now? Didn't think so.
It's not like i actually think theres an angry, dangerous animal in the toilet. But my Brain Does. It's like, the protective self-defense animalistic part of my brain going: "No can't do that! There's dangerous animal, sorry! Can't do! Sorry!" While my human brain is like: "There's no animal???? It's not dangerous??? I need to pee/do my homework/clean/eat???" But then the animal brain overrides that and DOESN'T. LET. ME. DO. IT.
"There's a dangerous animal in the dirty dishes, can't do!"
"There's a dangerous animal in the computer where the homework is, can't do!"
"There's a dangerous animal in the toilet, can't do!"
And the panic/avoidance you'd feel if someone was trying you to force into going to the wc with a rabid bear in it, is what we try to overcome, when. The bear. Isn't there.
But my *brain* doesn't know that.
Look. You know there is no bear. I know there is no bear.
But my brain is currently telling my body that there Very Much is.
