The Voyages of Great Hair

You know who I am... Well, no, you probably don’t so let’s start over: Old as balls | writer by trade, fangirl by accident | magnificently hot disastrous mess

[forestgreenandgray]

Hey do you know what rumination is?

Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.

Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.

Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.

I'll say it again:

Rumination is a compulsion.

Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.

I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.

And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.

Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.

Like this was genuinely life changing for me.

Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:

Defining Rumination

How to Stop Ruminating

ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination

What to Do When You're Triggered

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Just want to add that if you're on the spectrum, you may also experience Autistic Rumination, which is distinct from the obsessive variety, despite the two having some overlapping characteristics!

[hussyknee]

How long have you been on Tumblr?

Over 16 years (before 2010) (toddlers in the dawn of the ant colony)

16 to 14 years (2010-2012) (livejournal and Myspace refugees)

13 to 11 years (2013-2015) (you used to follow thebootydiaries)

10 to 8 years (2016-2018) (era of Russian bot conspiracy)

7 to 3.5 years (2019-2022) (post sex ban to Goncharov)

3.5 years or less (2023–2026) (Twitter refugee)

Voting ended onJul 15

Rebagel for science pls.

[zxid]

collection

[fishlung8877]

[aphrostiel]

vulcan clippy

[free-my-mindd]

[orcboxer]

autism tests are so funny. I'm extremely literal most of the time, but people don't tell me that generally, so I'm inclined to answer disagree. because I'm taking the statement too literally

[peopleingishard]

^not my post but same sentiment

[fairycosmos]

there used to be things to watch on youtube

[vixvigil]

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

[rosedavid]

PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir

@pscentral​ event 49: literature

[moss-indie]

Headcanoning Ryland Grace as aroace is so much funnier if you also simultaneously decide that Shapiro and DuBois were trying really hard to hit on him.

This applies to both versions of canon btw. Their unnecessary, almost uncomfortable openness with him about their sex life, and how comfortable they are to talking to him about it in the scenes in the book vs. in the movie, where they fully just look at him in the karaoke scene with pure "we saw you from across the bar and liked your vibe" couple energy.

Like they were so prepared to ask Grace to be their third, but he, being oblivious, just took it as them being oddly blazen and liberated.

[ratbastarddotfuck]

you have to forgive the printer because it's one of the most machine-ass machines we interact with on a day to day basis. that thing says kerchunk. hardly anything says kerchunk these days. you can't get mad at her when she kerchunks up a little.

[digitalsymbiote]

Crazy that tech has gotten so bad that we're doing printer forgiveness now

[jackabbot]

this is your periodical reminder that bottoming and topping is a physical preference and not a personality test

[ratbastarddotfuck]

you have to forgive the printer because it's one of the most machine-ass machines we interact with on a day to day basis. that thing says kerchunk. hardly anything says kerchunk these days. you can't get mad at her when she kerchunks up a little.

[digitalsymbiote]

Crazy that tech has gotten so bad that we're doing printer forgiveness now

[valtsv]

eroticising guilt is fun and reliable but let's not overlook the potential for eroticising lack of guilt. i don't feel bad about what i did and i'm helpless with terror in the face of what that says about me. of who i could become if i let myself acknowledge it without a firm hand to hold me back from going too far. without someone to restrain me. someone to unchain me. someone who'll take what i can give them.

[timberwind]

you can post on tumblr even when you're trying to take a break from social media it literally doesn't count. it's like pepsi max, or pescatarianism

[maeve-an-bhanchainti]

Bealtaine shona

[stardestroyerss]

Criterion Closet