#ocd things

[jaded-but-softening]

[asexual-amanita]

Your OCD awareness/advocacy should not stop when people have “unsavoury” obsessions. People with pOCD, zOCD, harm OCD and moral scrupulosity OCD deserve to have a place in your advocacy too. It’s a mental health disorder, it’s not going to be sunshine and rainbows.

[openmindpsych]

i love mental compulsions

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[banana-can-do-art]

Having OCD is like your brain trying to cancel you on twitter and filming its own horrendously put together cancelation video on you, using evidence from long deleted tweets and increasingly conspiratorial Reddit posts. It has extremely clickbait thumbnails too, but they work, and then you can’t stop watching even though you know how bad and inaccurate it is.

[jellyfish-enthousiast]

having ocd feels like this but everyone is just you

[mysteriousbogbody]

Night drive home

Explanation ummmm I hallucinate. Usually due to paranoia and especially at night. I’m also super superstitious, which fuels my OCD intrusive thinking. I often hallucinate people jumping in front of my car when I’m driving home, or watching me from the street, only to find they’re gone when I get close. I take it as an omen for bad things to come.

[obsessivelycompulsiveblog]

Having OCD sucks because making a mistake actually feels like killing someone and then you have that looming feeling you should never do your hobbies because you don't deserve good things :')

[eight-littlenightmares]

hey. hot take but making posts that say ‘reblog if you don’t hate this minority 🥺’ are performative and ableist.

posts like these can trigger people with OCD, who might then spiral about how if they don’t reblog this, they must hate that minority. and they must be bigoted and terrible. so they’ll probably reblog out of guilt and obligation.

but here’s the thing. posts like that are meaningless, performative, and shallow. the people who make them are literally just doing the easiest possible form of ‘allyship’ in order to feel all high and mighty and holier than thou, and feeling like they’re morally above people who don’t reblog it. it’s literally meaningless, performative manipulation disguised as ‘activism’.

if you don’t reblog a post like that, it doesn’t make you a bad person. it doesn’t mean you hate that minority. posts like that aren’t real activism.

in fact i’d say that they’re the opposite of activism. people who make those posts are literally guilt tripping and taking advantage of an already mentally/emotionally vulnerable group of people, (people with OCD) and it’s ableist as fuck. reblogging a post that says ‘REBLOG OR ELSE YOU THINK MINORITIES DESERVE DEATH’ means NOTHING.

anyways. people with OCD, i love you, and remember that you’re not obligated to reblog attention seeking posts like that. you’re a great person and i hope you’re having a great day.