#pure o ocd

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Maybe controversial, but normalise people being able to talk about their mental illnesses without it being treated like they're asking for an in depth conversation or therapy session about it.

I have OCD. Sometimes it acts up more than usual. Sometimes talking about my intrusive thoughts to other people is beneficial, sometimes it isn't.

Sometimes I just want to be able to mention that "my OCD is bugging me" in the same way I'd say "I have a headache" or "I think I'm getting a cold" and just have the person I tell be like "aw, that sucks" without having to make a big deal out of it. Sometimes I want to be able to mention that I used to be in therapy in casual conversation and have it be treated no differently than if I'd mentioned having once gone to the doctor.

This is something that I have dealt with in one way or another all my life (at least since I was a small child) and may well have to deal with forever. Sometimes it's basically just background noise, occasionally it's completely incapacitating and a lot of the time it's somewhere between the two, but it's something that I have to put up with.

I feel like a lot of the people who do this are just trying to be accepting and understanding, which is admirable, but by ensuring that the topic of mental illness is always going to be approached as a Big Important Conversation, you're basically ensuring that your mentally ill friends can only be open about their mental state when they feel like/have the spoons for Big Important Conversations, which is likely to discourage them from actually bringing it up.

#mental illness #actuallyocd #neurodivergence #ocd #intrusive thoughts #pure o ocd

[mariko-san]

Friendly reminder that this manifesting/law of attraction/law of assumption thing might be really harmful and triggering for person suffering from OCD or other mental illness that has symptoms like intrusive thoughts and paranoia

Some affirmations

Your thoughts are just thoughts

Thinking about something doesnt make it any more or less likely to happen

Its not your fault that your mental illness is making you have negative thoughts

Thinking about a bad thing doesnt make you a bad person

Universe is a vast space with planets and stars and comets and stuff, its doing nothing to you and has no connection to your thoughts

#ocd #pure o ocd #actuallyocd #intrusive thoughts #intrusive thoughts help #ocd help #manifesting #law of attraction #law of assumption #universe #the secret

[raging-guanche]

tumblr is such a horrible place for people with ocd.

"if you do or did this youre BAD YOU'RE A HORRIBLE PERSON WHO DESERVES DEATH PENALTY FOR YOUR UNFORGIVABLE CRIME YOU ARE NEVER GOING TO CHANGE OR BE BETTER"

like, maybe understand that people aren't saints or human crap, if no one got directly harmed and if it isn't intentional, please explain things with a more positive len if is possible.

obviously this isn't about saying "hey guysss dont be a nazi thats bad :(((", im talking about mistakes anyone can make without necessarily having bad faith.

#tw nazi mention #moral ocd #scrupulosity ocd #racial ocd #ocd #pure o ocd #ocd pure #pure ocd #actually obsessive #actually mentally ill #actually disabled #actually neurodivergent #actually ocd

[walkawaytall]

CW: frank discussion of suicidal ideation, OCD.

Look, I’m not a professional but I have been misdiagnosed by at least two, and I just want to point something out that I wish I’d had the words for a decade ago so I could avoid being put on the wrong medications for years.

If your suicidal thoughts look like: “I don’t want to be here any more”, yeah, they’re probably suicidal ideation.

If your suicidal thoughts look like: “I actually don’t want to die, but I keep having visions and thoughts of me harming myself or wondering what would happen if I did something entirely reckless that would undoubtedly end in my death and these thoughts will not stop even though, as I said, I have no desire to die”, bb, ask your doctor about OCD and abnormal intrusive thoughts, I beg you. And if they don’t know anything about it, ask if they can refer you to someone who does.

I have been passively suicidal in the past (“I don’t want to be the one to do it, but if I could just stop existing, that would be ideal”), but by the time I first went to therapy, that was no longer a thing for me. I didn’t want to not be here any more. But I did keep having repeating visions of me harming myself in a variety of ways that, on paper, looked very much like suicidal ideation. And I became convinced that I was going to hurt myself because I kept having the thoughts. And it took years for me to learn about OCD (specifically pure-O OCD for me at least, which means I don’t have obvious compulsions) and a few more years for a (new) therapist and a (new) psychiatrist to say, “Hey, that mood disorder you were diagnosed with sure does…not look like a mood disorder and actually looks a lot like a gnarly combination of ADHD and OCD with a sprinkling of social anxiety.”

(Also, if you’re like, “Well, I didn’t want to harm myself, but after having these thoughts fifty times in a row, I’m starting to think I will act on them”, that could still be intrusive thoughts. OCD is like…you know how there have been cases where cops have convinced innocent people that they committed a crime just by like…telling them they committed the crime for hours and hours? It’s like that. OCD is a crooked cop and it will try to convince you your intrusive thoughts are a realistic threat.)

Anyway, this isn’t meant to diagnose anybody with anything; it’s just information I wish I’d had years ago. If I’d known that what I was experiencing were intrusive thoughts rather than suicidal ideation, I think I might have been diagnosed earlier which would have meant more helpful treatment/learning coping skills earlier.

Please reach out for help if you experience any of the above — I want you here and I want you well. (Wikipedia of all places has a list of crisis hotlines by country if that’s something you might find helpful.)

#tw sui ideation #cw sui ideation #mental health #actually ocd #ocd #pure ocd #pure o ocd #sui ideation #tw ocd mention #tw mental health #cw ocd #cw mental health

[awfullybigwardrobe44]

Do you have OCD with mental compulsions you can’t bear to put off?

Try telling yourself “I’m going to write this down and come back to it some day when I’ve healed and can think about it more clearly.”

I totally recognize that won’t work for many people, but it’s working for me, and I wanted to shout it into the void in case it could help one fellow sufferer.

#Actually OCD #ocd #scrupulosity #obsessive compulsive disorder #pure o ocd #mental health #Mental disorders

[teamsieben]

Anyone have any recommendations for OCD blogs to follow? Especially if they post about pure O. It seems, searching through the tags, that there aren't many that aren't vent blogs, but maybe I'm wrong.

#ocd #pure o #actually ocd #moral ocd #pure o ocd #this post brought to you by: constantly questioning whether it's ocd or if i'm just a uniquely pathetic person

[mentoillnesspolls]

Disclaimer: There is some debate over whether OCD can exist with only compulsions or only obsessions, however, the DSM-5 does state that you can have only one, so that's what I'm going off of.

Also if there is a term for having pure compulsions like there is for obsessions, please let me know. I could not for the life of me find it if it's out there

#ocd #pure o ocd #obsessive compulsive disorder #actually ocd #mentoillnesspoll

[latelyimanervouswreck]

What's more selfish: wanting someone to stay alive even though they are not happy but if they are gone you will miss them or wanting to die even though you have so many people who love you and who would grieve if you died?

#tw sui ideation #tw s3lf harm #ocd #actually ocd #actually mentally ill #actually obsessive #pure o ocd #How to help someone #overwhelmed #mental illness #thinking about sh #tw ocd #tw sui vent #tw depressing stuff #sorry for being depressing #tw depressing thoughts #Death

[starryoak]

*gripping table and staring into the mirror* 

I will not obsess about being blocked by someone I’ve never met before in my life. I will not obsess over being blocked by someone I’ve never met before in my life. 

It is a normal part of being online nowadays because everyone is forced to interact on the same five sites when before they’d be on their own private forums and it says nothing about me morally, even if some people think it does.

I regularly examine my own beliefs and interrogate them for flaws, obsessively focusing on doing that searching for some secret reasoning that will make this make sense doesn’t actually help anyone. Just because my OCD insists that anyone who hates me is right doesn’t Actually mean it’s true.  

The reason I know this is because my OCD makes regular leaps in logic that my normal internal thought processes don’t. Those thoughts are a little bitch and should not be listened to. *repeating this in the mirror* I will not obsessed over being blocked by someone I’ve never met before in my life…

#anyway I’m having a normal one #(: #ocd #obsessive compulsive disorder #pure ocd #pure o ocd #scrupulosity #moral scrupulosity #discourse #ish #not really #but it feels adjacent enough I’m tagging it #i need to stop looking at things when I know it’ll upset me #but on the upside I’m able to do this instead of going ‘y’know the ocd is right’ #’obviously I’m the terrible person’ lol #to be clear no one needs to feel bad about blocking me hahaha #this is just me being an insane person #with a roommate in my brain that has the worst 2014 tumblr discourse opinions at the ready to justify why I should actually hate myself #my posts

[sp00kysk3lly]

Sometimes I Get Lonely

(Not my poem!)

Sometimes I get lonely

Instagram, Twitter, Facebook

Always connecting but not connected

Sometimes I get lonely

Looking to the future

Forgetting to be in the present

Sometimes I get lonely

Thinking someday, one day

Never thinking right here, right now

Sometimes I get lonely

Phone's on, WiFi's up

Waiting for it to buzz

Sometimes I get lonely

Just waiting...

Always waiting...

#mental health awareness #mental health #fake friends #blog #all alone #no one wants me #no one likes me #fake people #no one loves me #lonely #all alone forever #sad #depression #depressed #ptsd #pure o ocd #purely obsessional ocd #i need help #unwanted #unloved #unloveable #sad and pathetic #pathetic loser #poems #poetry #literature #not my poem #sometimes I get lonely #sometimes i get scared #don’t want to be alone anymore

[thirteen-autumns]

day 1 of Prozac hehe

#personal #prozac #pure o ocd

[maceofpentacles]

my dad gave me money for a gre prep book but i managed to snatch a book on pure o ocd too

#personal stuff #this made me laugh #way too hard tbh #pure o ocd

[firelordhotman]

pure ORGASM ocd more like. when im at your moms house

#pure o ocd #is the joke. i hope this isnt only funny because im crossed ar 3am

[raging-guanche]

if you laugh at "snowflakes", "puritans" or "easily offended people" who are actually people with moral ocd stfu

- disrespectfully, a person with moral ocd.

#moral ocd #scrupulosity ocd #ocd #actually obsessive #actually disabled #actually mentally ill #actually ocd #mocd #pure ocd #pure o ocd #ocd pure

[genderaesthetics]

Genuine question for anyone who has “pure o” ocd or knows more about it than I do: do people with that type not have reassurance or thought-based compulsions? I don’t have pure o ocd but reassuring myself is one of my big compulsions and I guess I just struggle to imagine having obsessive thoughts without reassuring myself (at least before I did erp therapy).

#pure o ocd #ocd #hopefully I described that well

[krill-joy]

love her. would not have been able to deal with myself or understand myself without her.

(cw: don't watch if your brain is feeling particularly sticky/prone to grabbing new obsessive thoughts)

#pure o #pure o ocd #ocd #maria bamford