#Obssessive compulsive disorder

[dearautisticdiary]

"Oh, Merry Men!"

Some common co-occurrences that people on the autism spectrum may experience include:

1. Gastrointestinal Problems - Like constipation, diarrhea, and other digestive issues.

2. Epilepsy

3. Sleep Problems - This includes, difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, and disrupted sleep patterns.

4. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD):

5. Anxiety Disorders

6. Depression

7. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

8. Intellectual Disability (ID)

9. Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)

10. Developmental Language Disorder

[starsaroundmyscarsblog]

So quick little update.

Just had my first session for OCD. Well, it wasn't a session more of an introduction to what therapy is like and assessment. I feel like I can finally breathe now, and it almost feels like I'm starting to see it a bit more like a condition I have than everything being my fault. I struggle really hard sometimes with knowing what's real and what isn't, so this has added a little to my perception level. If anyone else has ocd and just wants a safe space to talk/connect. My dms are always open. If anyone has any tips to dealing with intrusive thoughts, please comment or share with people who do. Repost this if you like.

Maybe I'll write a diary about my progress and therapy sessions.

P.S. please share as u see fit. ☺️

[noirtism]

I'll NEVER forget the day I explained to my mom what OCD and intrusive thoughts are and she said she would "hide all the knives we have" because "what if I decide to kill everyone"

And no. It wasn't a joke

[magnuficentwo]

Me when I remember the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder makes me Obsessive and Compulsive Disorderly (It had an Obssessive or Compulsive thought):

[colombinna]

23.5 Neurodivergency Headcanons

This show is probably one of the most diverse I've ever watched, not just by how everyone in the main cast is queer, but also because there's some pretty solid neurodivergency-coding into some of the main characters. These are based on my interpretation of the characters' actions and feelings throughout the show, if you have different headcanons feel free to share!

All gifs were taken from the 23.5 tag

Aylin - Autistic

This one is pretty obvious and imo she is not just coded, she's pretty explicitly autistic even though they never say the word on the show. I really like her because she feels different from other autistic characters I've seen and I really enjoy how visible her autistic traits are, and how well it's showcased that they interfere with her life, and for the most part the people who love her don't mock her for them or want her to get rid of them

Ongsa - Autistic

While in contrast with Aylin, Ongsa's traits are more subtle, she's pretty much a great definition of an autistic teenage girl. The way she stims when she's nervous, how hard it is for her to say some things, the way her emotions overtake her and she acts in ways that are unpredictable and may seem strange and dramatic, the messes she gets herself into because of her struggles to communicate, a mix of all of these and more are what make me relate to her so much as an autistic lesbian. I also really enjoy her dramatic side, because I'd pretty much act like that too if I hadn't been reppressed all my life.

Alpha - Obssessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCDP)

(flag reference)

I don't know if it's just our shared eldest daughter syndromes, but I felt Alpha SOOOO much when she had a breakdown over not fulfilling expectations. The way she's such a massive perfectionist in every aspect of her life, and when things don't go her way or there are flaws in the things she takes care of, she takes it either as a hit on herself or takes it out on others just reasonated with me a lot as someone with OCPD.

I don't have any more headcanons for now

[electricpurrs]

Ok so reading your ocd post, is having frequent bouts where you’re flooded with negative thoughts and feeling the need to stuff them, not a normal thing?

i wont armchair diagnose you, anon. having frequent waves of intense negative thoughts is not normal, no, but in the sense that probably means theres something wrong with your mental health, you might have depression or anxiety for example, but that's a very vague description for me to tell you if that's ocd.

if my post descibing my experience resoated with you, i recommend you look up what ocd is and how it manifests on your own to learn more about it, thats what i did and i got to realize i likely have ocd myself. i could direct you to a website i found very useful and also a youtube video i watched recently that spoke very well about the subject:

but to let things very clear, ocd isn't just "having negative thoughts and needing to stuff them down". its obssessive-compulsive disorder, aka you have intense, uncontrolable obssessive thoughts that are by definition upsetting to you, but that you can't stop thinking no matter how much you try, and those lead to compulsions, which are also uncontrollable, often nonsensical behaviors that calm the obsessive thoughts down.

what i described was having thoughts of sometimes extreme nature, like disturbing sexual or violent thoughts, and i didnt just "stuff them down", but created the compulsive behavior of imagining a toilet flushing with the internal logic of "flushing" my thoughts away, and would compulsively revert to the toilet flushing imagery everytime the disturbing thoughts came in. its like a ritual of sorts, and not doing the ritual means not getting rid of the Bad Things. again if something about this process does resonate to you, i suggest you look this up on your own accord

[xjmlm]

The moment it becomes a symptom for us is when, as a patient once told me, she was perfectly able to sleep on the sofa in the living room. Once she got to the bedroom her ability to sleep vanished. This has a structure; it says that beds are for something other than sleeping. It poses the question of what beds are for. The most popular of the diagnostic categories that obscure the symptom is the borderline personality disorder. If you read a good description of the borderline personality disorder you will discover that this patient has a representative from all of the categories of symptoms. A borderline is anxious, depressed, phobic, hysterical, obssessive-compulsive, perverse, psycho-pathological, and even has psychotic episodes. In the first place, the category tells you nothing about the patient, except perhaps that the patient has a demand to be taken as Everypatient. Certainly, the use of the word "borderline" is a misnomer since the patient is trying to be everything. Now this is very appealing to psychiatrists because it implies that the therapist will become everything for the patient, assuming that he responds to the demand, something that he does if he accepts that the patient is borderline. The mods of self-presentation is a demand and it is only by refusing the demand that one may arrive at the symptom, to say nothing of the desire. As my supervisor told me when I was beginning to practice, these patients do not have to show their symptom. And if they do not show their symptom you aren't going to analyze anything.

This ought to give an idea of how we see a certain limit in the dialectic of analysis, and how the patient offers material to oppose the analyst, not to consent to his judgment.

The dimension of the symbolic, in other words, is the place from which the analyst directs the reorientation to the real. It would, however, be entirely false to think that this should all be reduced to what Lacan once called a semiotic delirium, the kind of thing that structuralists were doing when they broke everything down into plusses and minuses. It is not that we disparage such efforts, because if there is going to be any gain of knowledge on the part of the analysand in analysis, it will necessarily be in terms of some sort of structure, some sort of ordering of material. Otherwise the material is simply not intelligible.

The idea is that the signifying or phonetic elements of spoken language do not always have a fixed meaning; it is the listener who precipitates meanings through his punctuation or through other forms of responses. The unconscious desire that the patient is attempting to gain access to is present in his speech as well as in his dreams and symptoms. And the only way to gain access to whatever is encoded in dreams and symptoms is through the language that structured them in the first place. That language is present because the patient speaks it, not because the analyst provides a meaning for it. He should be brought to see that his speech is an act, that it produces an effect on the analyst, and this is beyond the idea that by an interpretation the analyst shows the patient what he really means to say. The effect produced in the analyst is represented by all the variations the analyst introduces in the way he acts during sessions. Since the patient assumes that it is he who has produced these effects, his effort to interpret the analyst's gestures, to decipher the enigma, will lead him to his own desire. This means that the analyst's antics, if you like, the fact that he is not always the same from session to session, cannot be entirely haphazard. There is a considerable difference, Lacan said, between reading hieroglyphics and reading coffee grinds. Since analysands have a tendency in the transference to read almost everything, it is an interesting question of how they know which effects are produced by them and are there for them to read, and which are not. In lieu of answering the question, let us say that when an analysand in the throes of the transference reads coffee grinds, what he is looking for is what most analysts are trying their best to give him: love and/or affection. They are, in other words, looking for a sign from the analyst that he is willing to accept as valid some part of their ego, some aspect of their personality, at least one of the several self-images that they present. To vary the theme of a popular song, when you are looking for love you will be looking in the wrong places.

Stuart Schneiderman,

"Affects", from Acts (1988)

[the-prophesied-disco-gay]

Paranoid personality disorder, schitzoid and schitzotypal personality disorders, avoident personality disorder, dependant personality disorder, obssessive-compulsive disorder. There are so many of us and so many more personality disorders than most people realize. We are people, we are dping our best same as everyone else. We deserve compassion and understanding and gentleness too. We're not monsters, we're people. Please remember that.

the thing that gets me the most about ableism against pd’s is that ppl will be like “these disorders make you an ASSHOLE!!!!” and then turn around and pretend that other disorders can’t and don’t make you act shitty.

depression and anxiety can make you irritable and snappy. they can cause you to refuse to listen to people and to be distant and withdrawn. they can cause you to seem angry, bitchy, rude, uncaring, etc.

ptsd causes an array of difficulties in forming meaningful relationships. it pretty much shakes up your entire worldview and sense of self a lot of the time. ptsd can cause you to get angry often. it can cause you to yell and scream. it can cause you to withdraw from others, run away, or cut them out. it can cause general changes in demeanor and more cynical worldviews. it can make you seem grouchy, negative, explosive, impolite, difficult, needy, controlling, etc.

and yet when people with personality disorders have symptoms of that nature, suddenly we are irredeemable monsters. when it’s npd, bpd, hpd, or aspd instead of ptsd or depression and anxiety, people suddenly and magically lose the ability to be understanding.

mental illness is an explanation, not an excuse. i firmly believe that. hurting others is never justified simply because you have any disorder.

but if you can be patient with people who have depression, anxiety, ptsd, ocd, or any other more well understood mental illness, you can be patient with us.

[antisocial-transfag]

OCD is like having a troll living under a bridge inside your brain except crossing the bridge is doing literally anything ever and the riddles are blinking 36 times

[thenihilistofthevoid]

"No, I mean by pushing aside my feelings and diagnosing you earlier. Histrionic Personality Disorder, frequently comorbid with other Cluster-B Personality Disorders and in your case, some obssessive-compulsive disorder and possibly de clerambault syndrome." Saburo sighed.

“Aw, is it too tight? Good.” (yandere Kujaku, if you please)

"No more than I deserve, I should have seen it sooner..." Saburo sighs, furious with himself.

[louisfruit]

I've decided that the best solution for my OCD that makes me repeat movements a certain number of times is to forget how to count. I will be unlearning all numbers. Have a nice Day

[derpybay]

OCD & Direct Mindfulness

So I was talking with a friend today about OCD and she mentioned how she’s having a hard time feeling like she needs to be absolutely certain on things.  We both have OCD and after rereading my book I began explaining how we need to build a tolerance for not being a hundred percent certain.  Then I explained to her about direct mindfulness exercises. A lot of people could benefit from taking five minutes a day to just close their eyes sit down acknowledge any thoughts or sounds they have/hear but not fixate on those thoughts.  It sounds dumb and its hard at first but it trains our brains to keep their emotional spotlight from sticking to negative thought or feeling.  Just a bit of OCD advise she says it helped so thought I’d share it. 

[lalaobslove]

i dont care if u dont like me back !!

YOURE MINE 4EVER and i love u too 🫀

[obesericewrites]

for the anon with a bald spot cat please make sure shes not stress grooming that one spot. sometimes cats can develop obssessive-compulsive grooming disorder that eventually leads to loss of fur

Yeah, I’ve had one of my cats do that when we were moving out of our old home. Definitely get her checked!

[c3po]

Compulsive Obssessive Disorder: Modern Warfare 2

[digimonloving]

after i went on my very first surgery ((in irl; but don't worry evrything went well and quick just a sebaceous cyst removal that required general anesthesia since i have asperger sydrome and anxiety related disorders as obssessive-compulsive and hyperactivity disorder, attention defict and generalized anxiety dissorder)) i got an idea: how would be like the wizard squad (with a fem! sorcermon) with a fem! tamer s/o who needed to go to the hospital to undergo surgery with general anesthesia to remove a sebaceous cyst that has been bothering her for 7 years (she is 21) got inflamed and they 3 have to accompany her desguised as humans and everything went well?

FlameWizardmon, Wizardmon, and fem Sorcermon accompanying their Fem Tamer S/O to the hospital for her surgery

The moment they heard from their Tamer about the reason for the trip to the hospital, each of them were concerned in their own ways. Wizardmon the most visibly concerned as he stuck close by her, FlameWizardmon not showing it but he was clearly a bit anxious about hearing the reason. Sorcermon, despite knowing they were to leave to get the surgery for it, did some research to see if she could do anything to aid her Tamer before they arrived to the hospital.

It's easy for each of them to blend in when it comes to going out. While the stitches may be a bit tougher, that's nothing some long-sleeved clothes and masks can't hide. While perhaps looking a little over dressed, they had to do they could keep check on their Tamer and escort her to the hospital.

When checking in to tell the nurses, each of them wanted to wanted to give their Tamer a charm of good luck, to make sure that the surgery went well and that they successfully manage to remove the entire enflamed cyst, so that she doesn't have to worry about it anymore or have it on her mind! They prayed for good luck as well, mostly on Sorcermon's side of things. FlameWizardmon would hardly let go of his Tamer's hand until the other two had to pry him off of her so she could go into surgery.

Wizardmon is the one who paces out of them all as they wait. FlameWizardmon's leg is constantly bouncing in a nervous tick as he tries to keep a hard look, and Sorcermon keeps praying quietly for it all to go well once more for her Tamer.

Each immediately bounced forth when approached to hear the news. Relief swept through each of them upon hearing all went well with the surgery, they didn't have to worry about their Tamer any longer or feel as if their world was going to be torn asunder.

They're glad that all went well as they go to see her, FlameWizardmon almost jumping up to hug her but quickly being pulled back by the other two. No extra damage done to their Tamer, thank you! But they're so relieved it went well, and that nothing bad happened!