#zocd

[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.

[real-oddity]

Worst part about what I think is ocd is. Well ok the intrusive thoughts and everything related to those. But the SECOND worst part is probably the need to Confess.

Confess your sins, and absolve yourself of your crimes. You will never be good again, you are tainted, but you can find resolution by baring yourself on this cross.

Hate that it actually soothes me too, because FUCK no, dont give it a leg to stand on!!

[ocd-room]

tw

"people who are scared of/against cancel culture are usually the ones who should probably be cancelled" "people that get triggered by the stories of serial killers and people like epstein have something horrible to hide" "people who did anything bad in the past deserve to feel guilty forever and they should never be forgiven idc about their clean freak disorder that has nothing to do with this" "people with more taboo subtypes of ocd (harm, pocd, zocd, etc) are just bad people using a disorder as a shield" etc etc

i always said i never wished this disorder on my worst enemy but these kinds of people who say stuff like this are really starting to change my mind. im so tired of sanism against people with ocd when we punish ourselves enough as it is

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[werethropy]

"mental health" advocates when they see someone with Z-OCD or P-OCD (suddenly they don't care about mental health anymore and just want to jump to conclusions to hurt the people they swore to help)

This also goes for psychotic people who have "scary"/"disturbing" reactions to certain things (screaming, rocking back and forth while holding their head, mumbling about seemingly "crazy" or "inane" things, defecating themselves, scratching their skin, lashing out, wetting themselves, etc.)

Everyone wants to be on the right side of history until they realize mental health advocacy includes everyone and not just the 'prettier' disorders that they oh-so-love to cherrypick and romanticize.

Everyone loves the idea of disorders being less stigmatized than they are today, but will, in the same vein, clutch their pearls when they hear a person with POCD sob about how they feel like a disgusting human being about having uncontrollable, EGO-DYSTONIC, INTRUSIVE thoughts/images about children. They will call a morally incorrect person psychotic, they will say things very reminiscent of "I'm scared that the EVIL PSYCHOTICS are able to roam freely 😰😰😰😰" with a helluva lot of padding, they will make "schizo" jokes whose whole purpose was to trigger psychotic people because it's funny.

It's disgusting how your beliefs stop at the people who's disorders don't fit into your perfect little box of what's acceptable for a fucking illness or not, as if they have any damn control over it.

[helpforintrusivethoughts]

I’m having a particularly bad episode of OCD today and wanted to remind everyone as well as myself.

Your intrusive thoughts and urges do not reflect who you are as a person.

Your intrusive thoughts and urges do not make you sick or evil.

Your intrusive thoughts and urges do not mean you are a despicable human being.

They do not mean any of the above, or any of the other lies your brain might conjure. (You’re twisted. You’re perverted. You deserve death. You deserve to never be happy. To always be alone. To always feel guilty. And the list goes on).

What your intrusive thoughts and urges do mean is that you’re struggling, and it’s hard, and sometimes you want to give up and disappear forever.

But your intrusive thoughts and urges do not define you. They do not have control over you, they do not have charge of your brain. They are not going to drag you under for the rest of your life, even if it feels like that right now. You will overcome this, and you will pound those stupid thoughts into the earth, no matter how long it takes.

You are not your intrusive thoughts.

Your intrusive thoughts are not you.

[gemwesper]

Hi By The Way if you Have POCD you Are not a pedophile. Those thoughts are unwanted. You do not like them nor want to act on them. I know because I have it too, along with ZOCD. You're not a bad person. These go against your morals.

If you have a paraphile and are anti contact and are going to therapy and don't romanticize these desires, you are doing something right. This is mainly about the big three, but all paraphiles are mental disorders. The second you start romanticizing it is where you start wanting to act on it.

Fiction DOES affect reality.

Being objectum is a paraphile. There is a mental reason behind all paraphiles. You are not a bad person.

You CAN act on tamer paraphiles in consensual settings, I'm not one to kinkshame, but if you're doing ageplay (where your partner is a child) or animal play (not where you're acting animalistic, genuienly being like an animal) that is romanticizing it and will make urges worse. Do what you want but it is unhealthy either way.

Discuss things with your partner and be open and honest. It doesn't get better if you don't talk about it.

But you can't tell everyone, and you shouldn't be bragging about it or sharing desires and planning to act on them.

Loli art is CSAM.

CP does not exist. Porn is consensual. Children cannot consent.

You are not better than anyone just because you manage your symptoms better. We are all deserving of help.

[me-you-and-my-medication]

How it feels when I'm stuck ruminating

[mr-bl00sky]

To everyone out there struggling with ocd, whether it be pure-o, relationship ocd, iocd, pocd, zocd, harm ocd sexually taboo ocd, otherwise taboo ocd, ocd surrounding numbers, checking ocd, or any other form of ocd I forgot to mention, I LOVE YOU. Please don’t forget that. You aren’t alone in your struggles. Everything is going to be okay, nothing is going to end in catastrophe. You are going to be okay. I love you all so much, you’re all so strong just for being here.