#OCD AND STUDYING

[helpforintrusivethoughts]

Resources 🌼

(Updated regularly)

🪷 Emergency resource: oh no I’m having a bad thought

🌻 Apps and Games

Finch: mental health app where you care for a little bird! Offers many features such as focus timers, rant zones, nature sounds, fun questions, and more! You can even make friends on it and send them encouragement :) (my friend code)

Adorable Home: a precious game in which you have a tiny spouse, cats, and a little house you can decorate! You can check in and enjoy peaceful music, different scenes, and upgrades through collecting tiny hearts you earn through easy tasks! A truly adorable and relaxing game!

Seashine: a game set underwater in which you guide a tiny luminescent jellyfish through the abyss. Beautiful, relaxing music and distant whale noises; some scary enemies, so if you have thalassophobia this might not be the one for you. Very calming otherwise though, and the creator is coming out with an enemy-free version soon in which you can just float around to the music!

Cat Snack Bar: an adorable app where you operate different business venues with the help of chubby, adorable cats! You check in periodically to collect money and update your venue, but otherwise it doesn't require much brain power. A very cute game to help you relax!

Webtoon: a comic app that allows you to browse thousands of creative and often relaxing webcomics! My personal favorite is Cursed Princess Club; it's a very clever and happy one with a lot of good messages!

1010!: a fun little game where you match up blocks. Fairly simple and satisfying, and you can update your backgrounds to fun designs!

Papa's Cupcakeria: a relaxing and satisfying game where you make cupcakes! And of course there’s a whole series of games in the Papa Louie universe to choose from that are fun and happy :)

🪸 Fun Websites

Neal.fun: features many creative pages you can visit such as— a stack of movable rocks, a page that shows how deep the ocean really goes, who was alive [insert year], draw logos from memory, and more!

WindowSwap: lets you go through windows around the world! You can log in and save your favorites, and make it fullscreen if you need to study and want a nice thing in the background to keep you from distractions.

mrdoob.com: a wacky website with lots of fun features you can draw and mess around with

boredbutton: for when you're bored out of your mind and want a pointless website to mess with!

theuselessweb.com: takes you to a completely useless website, such as a page where it rains corndogs or a page where you can create different forms of art.

ashortjourney.com: lets you take a small and beautifully drawn trip on a trolley and pick up/drop off tiny creatures!

Forestopia: allows you to explore images of forests and the things inside, with background forest noises!

boredpanda.com: full of memes, funny stories, and more!

listverse: contains many lists, some horrifying (so be warned for those) and some just fascinating!

🍄 Focus Sites and Playlists

rainymood.com: a site/app that lets you listen to rain for as long as you want!

asoftmurmur.com: lets you listen to a variety of sounds like rain, thunder, or a fire!

Open ocean: 10 hours of underwater videography of a spot in the ocean!

imissmycafe.com: site that lets you listen to the noises of a coffee shop! You can change the different noises too :)

Secret Forest Playlist: peaceful music; 2 hours

Rain on Leaves on a Forest Road in Autumn: rain in the woods; 10 hours

Haunted Village Halloween Ambience: eerie but quiet music; 3 hours

Relaxing Autumn/Fall Forest: sounds of wind, crows, songbirds, and creaking trees; 7 hours

Chill Beats for Worldbuilding and Writing: Fabulous lofi music; 1 hour

It's Just a Dream/Dreamcore: Very peaceful and ambient music; 4 hours

Autumn Acoustic: Autumn inspired songs; 5 hours

Sad Piano Music: beautiful piano pieces by Jurrivh; 6 hours

The Most Relaxing Waves Ever: beach noises; 8 hours

Rural Autumn Ambience and Music: gentle autumn-y music; 1 hour

Yanni: a playlist of beautiful word-free music by Yanni

pov- you're a pirate: a pirate-themed playlist for inspiration

Have your own recommendations? Drop a comment or ask!

[shrimpleastha]

the fact that i'm still deluding myself into thinking i'm still a good student... since starting college, i've gotten lazier and have been taking the easy way out of everything. i think i've ruined my brain.

[areus-in-a-little-cave]

Lately I have been thinking a lot about how intrusive thoughts as a concept are being misrepresented once again in the name of representing them correctly.

What I mean is that there's been a growing push to talk about the existence of very upsetting, morally reprehensible intrusive thoughts, like killing your family, in an attempt to undo the perception of intrusive thoughts as those quirky ideas you have where you wanna dye your hair at midnight. But this is still not an accurate representation or explanation of what intrusive thoughts are, and can even still be damaging to people who may have intrusive thoughts.

The simple fact is that intrusive thoughts aren't even very complicated to understand. There's really only two criteria for a thought to qualify: it is a thought that causes some form of upset, and it is unwanted/not consciously thought of. It does not have to be the idea of you doing some horrible action, nor does it have to be an action or terrible thing at all. The only things a thought must be to be an intrusive thought is intrusive and upsetting. So while killing your family can be an intrusive thought, so can dyeing your hair, so long as the thought of dyeing your hair causes you some form of upset (sadness, anger, guilt, something that makes you feel worse than before) and it is an intrusive concept you aren't trying to think about.

The idea that intrusive thoughts must be the idea of doing some negative action that causes extreme upset in you is inaccurate and could potentially lead to people not recognizing intrusive thoughts they are having, which prevents treatment. I think talking about the more shunned types of intrusive thoughts is important, but I don't think saying "those aren't actually intrusive thoughts because they're not bad enough" is a good idea. Both can be intrusive thoughts because it comes down to the individual having the thought. You can literally have intrusive thoughts about anything and I think it's important to recognize because having intrusive thoughts about something that is pretty much only upsetting to you is probably just as isolating as having intrusive thoughts that people see as reprehensible.

[tubelight-404]

If OCR pulls the same shenanigans as paper 1 I'm literally gonna fist fight every single one of them

[hotfudgecherryrosy]

Something I've found that helps me when I'm taking notes is color coding. I've had more of a compulsion to do that since starting my meds which made my OCD a bit worse, but going back over my notes to color them has made it stick in my head more. I have to reread what i wrote, but I'm also assigning it a color which is like a compartment in my brain because im very normal about color. Highly suggest if u think this would work for u

[liquidstar]

a friend who'd wait :)

[soccerpunching]

⚡️ zanark 👀

I'M SO SORRY FOR HOW LONG IT TOOK ME TO ANSWER THIS!!

My other zanark HC is that he has OCD, I had this hc since my second watch of chrono stone but it was something that im too afraid to say before like all of my disability hcs. For everyone with OCD, you are highly encouraged to kick me in the jaw (criticize me) if you find my words offending or ignorant (please point it out if im being insensitive).

i initially based this strictly on the way he talks and his catchphrase that he say a lot. it felt like it's something that he needed to do. something that he cant stop doing even if he wants to. but he does really want say it most of the time.

i hope this does not sound like im romanticizing intrusive thoughts (as someone who have dangerous ones) but i also think that what made him capable of miximaxing with a super typhoon is because he wasn't able to find a coping strategy that was able to help him through this (because he was in a prison). his intrusive thoughts were harder for him to manage... and became what they called his chaos in the series (which also canonically made it difficult for him to use his powers). i hope this was not ableist of me to say (but tell me if it is!!).

another thing, a bit unrelated to the hc i had above... not to bring zanakurou again on another zanark hc; but i genuinely believe that given that zanark had parents to raise him and wasn't given to a shit organization that puts kids in time warping prisons, he would have been just like zanakurou. with the chaos within himself strictly (and painfully/still unhealthily) managed for the honor and pride of his (chosen) family. he just gives me the vibes.

[beau-rebloga-coisas]

Congrats college degree-having ADHd people my psychiatrist just said untreated ADHD people don't get college degrees

[localdiscountgoth]

i think we should dissect the “not like other girls” mindset a little bit. from my experiences at least.

i developed this complex through my interactions with other girls my age. the most memorable experience was me not being invited to who i thought was a friends going away party because the “popular girls” didnt want me there. i was told this to my face word for word. i was the only one not invited.

i was actively excluded from birthday parties, sleepovers and such do to mob mentality of my peers deciding what i could and could not do.

if i tried to participate in a trend. clothing trends, music trends, social trends etc… i was ridiculed for it. was told i was copying them. everything i did that was a trend i was made fun of for doing.

i started drawing. i was made fun of for it because there could only be one art girl and that would be copying. didnt matter if other girls drew, i was not allowed to. and i was told this every time i drew. even notebook sketches. they decided me doing that was copying and “ew gross, stop thinking you can copy emma”

i had girls tell me to my face to shut up because they didnt want to hear me talk. i didnt talk right. i was then ridiculed and deemed a bitch for not talking enough.

i was an easy target. i was incredibly neurodivergent (autistic, dyslexic, adhd, ocd and probably something else i missed) and i came from and incredibly neurodivergent family. all undiagnosed and all untreated.

i didnt understand a lot so i got picked on and they used these against me. i got frustrated and would lash out and it only made it worse.

i was actively ridiculed for trying to be like the other girls. then shamed for not being like them.

its not that i didnt want to be like other girls. they didnt want to be like me.

so i read YA books, listened to rock music and cried myself to sleep every night begging to know what was wrong with me and why dont they like me.

that was the original “not like other girls”

being so shamed from girlhood and the expectations. whats shown on mainstream tv, media and the friendships around you. you become an outcast. not like the other girls.

[blowflyfag]

Rolling joints not to smoke them but to do something cause you’re to nervous to just sit around.

[shrimpleastha]

Day 2 in Albania: adapter doesn't work, and I wasn't in the group chat for class bc I had the flu when it was made. Orientation is tomorrow, and I'm not exactly excited.

[biology-jelly]

WHILE NOT STUDYING #2

Date: April 21th 2024

Topic: what i did lately to relax and rest

Started watching a new show "Ted" (2024) - i recommend watching shows that have stand-alone episodes as you're less likely to binge them;

Arranged the books on one shelf in my schools library in the alphabetical order - if you're planning to do this, ask the librarians first to make sure they don't have anything against it;

Started reading magazines on things that interest me - as an example National Geographic, I'm keen on biology so i find it really nice and relaxing;

Read, read and read - i might post book recommendations in the future currently i'm reading The Time Machine by H.G. Wells;

This post took me 2 weeks to finish, first time I wrote it, i was not happy with how it turned out. I was also in a bit of a depression pit, but i'm better now.

Have a nice day

[ilikenames]

I'm really stressed, can I feel the need to rants but I don't know if I should

[sporadeen]

What the FUCK :O

[inkwellss]

studying while having intrusive thougths is horrible like leave me alone im just trying to do divison and your here blasting horrible visions into my minds

[gryffindorpsychologyandcoffee]

Grinding to finish this PowerPoint by tonight. School is really picking up and the next week is going to be incredibly busy and I’m not sure how I’ll manage. Next week is spring break so hopefully I’ll get a breather then!