#scrupulosity ocd

[openmindpsych]

[prayingmaggots]

hi friendly reminder you aren’t a bad person for not reblogging something. reblog bait fucking sucks and its intended purpose is to make you feel guilty. it is not a moral failing to not reblog something and you are never a bad person for scrolling past a post. sincerely, a moral ocd haver

you are free to reblog this post but you aren’t obligated to. it’s okay to scroll, i promise

[creature-wizard]

Sitting with your discomfort isn't supposed to be about wallowing in guilt or ruminating on all of the things you've done wrong. It's about handling your feelings with mindfulness instead of trying to seek emotional relief through absolution or forgiveness from the person who made you realize there's a problem.

If you have been ruminating on the things you've done wrong or on the ways you're privileged, and you've been using this to feed a narrative that you're an inherently bad person, understand that this is unhealthy behavior and it does nothing for the people you want to help. Here are some tips to help you stop ruminating.

[monsterblogging]

Hey so, this idea that you shouldn't participate in fandom during These Terrible Times is really unhealthy, okay? You can't spend all your time focusing on The Horrors or you're going to burn yourself out. You need to take breaks. And trust me, that person scolding you for participating in fandom while Things Are Happening needs a break way more than they know.

[turi4turi]

first blinkie batch of OCD subtypes / obsessions done, more matching blinkies to come :] we made ones for general awareness and positivity here (link)

(like/reblog/credit NOT required. dni TCC + anyone whos anything but firmly anti contact for paraphilias where it'd be harmful otherwise.)

[smiledoggy]

Another OCD comic.

[moonpool-system]

The Scrupulosity OCD is speaking in hushed tones and whispers

[thefluxsystem]

Ever since being diagnosed with OCD, I keep wondering how many people are in the same position I was only a few months ago: Believing that their intrusive thoughts are who they are because they’ve never been told otherwise.

I have looked into OCD multiple times over the years— which was why I was so convinced I didn’t have it. I didn’t hear the term “moral scrupulosity” until I was given my diagnosis. I didn’t know that my ceaseless, exhausting mental war over whether or not I’m a good person counted as intrusive. I didn’t know ripping yourself apart for things you could have done or could have said after every conversation, often to the point of tears, was not normal behavior.

Because I didn’t know these thoughts were intrusive, they were confirming themselves. I thought that making myself feel this way was right, as if it were divine punishment from a god I don’t believe in for the sin of being alive. That makes sense, I’d think. I am Bad and deserve to Suffer.

I figured everyone else felt this way too. I figured that they must handle it better than I can, which I counted as another moral failure on my part.

Finding out that no, most people aren’t fighting their own thoughts this hard every moment of every day, has changed my life. It’s still hard not to think that I deserve the suffering I put myself through, but I have an out now. Before, the only answer I had was of course I deserve it. Now, I can think deserve or not, this is a disorder in my brain that’s not meant to happen.

It tortures me. How many people are going through life believing their intrusive thoughts are just their thoughts? And how much would change for them if they knew that wasn’t true?