#ocd struggles

[this-is-neuropsych-ableism]

"Its illegal to be straight during pride month!"

"If you think hateful thoughts about yourself, and you're queer, that's queerphobic, and it's illegal to be queerphobic during pride month!"

How about we not make straight queers* feel guilty and paranoid about being "not queer enough" during pride month? (*Aspec straights, trans & gender diverse straights, intersex straights, lesbihets, turihets, m-specs straights, polyamorous hets, nonrose hets, etc, etc, etc?)

How about we not make people with internalized queerphobia feel guilty for intrusive thoughts?

How about we stop making a billion posts encouraging moral OCD during pride month?

[PT: How about we stop making a billion posts encouraging moral OCD during pride month? /End PT]

[learningfromlosing]

"It's me, isn't it?"

"Mr. Monk Meets the Candidate (2)" Monk, created by Andy Breckman, Season 1, episode 2 (2002-2009)

[unwashedace]

Illustration I made this past summer while struggling extra hard with my OCD.

[twisnettles]

mood when I can feel that another ocd episode is about to start

[as-they-say]

I love this panel of the anthology so very much. It adresses the struggles Riddle goes through trying to be less strict, which often gets overlooked. As someone currently receiving therapy to address my OCD, I think this exemplifies how difficult it can be to suppress compulsions, especially when you have been doing them your whole life. Even things that are harmless not to do can throw off a your whole day because Everything Is Wrong if you don’t do them.

The most common response from people to troubles and worries like these is often ‘just don’t worry about it’, but oftentimes that itself becomes a new worry in and of itself, and only adds to the stress.

Change is difficult, especially when a behaviour is rooted deeply in you, and as much as you may want to change and understand that you’re being unreasonable, it can be a very difficult process to follow through with.

[allconsumingghost]

harm ocd is awesome cause ill be trying to sleep and my brain is like “what if you had to get all the sewing needles you own and shove them in your eye?” and now i have to think about that

[grayzahk]

𖣯⋆ how “im so OCD!!!!” mfs genuinely look at you when your obsessions aren’t about being neat and organized but instead about harming others and being an ethical human being

[eyeballs-in-my-head]

Yes, brain, let me go and look up how to spell the word "crayfish" so you won't get an anxiety attack about writing it. Sure, this isnt a bother to me at all. No, I'm not annoyed at all when i find out ive spelled it correct the first time. Of course im not. You are a very normal brain and this is something that every other person does. Do not worry. Yey!