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martian-garden · 9 months
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Hey besties help a weird ND guy out
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mysticdragon3md3 · 4 months
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I'm sorry to say this, but the number can be WAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY MORE than 3 years.
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wopfedra · 22 days
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Consider this: The Protocol!verse does not have the FEARS, but OBSESSIONS.
As a seasoned TMA fan, I have come to automatically try to classify what I hear by the Fears, and while there are clear indicators at times, I always find at least like, two per statement. Of course, matching is not at all impossible, but the statements we heared were often less about a confrontation with something and more about some strange drive urging the person to go further. Like they were obsessed with it, getting themselves deeper and deeper into it. We even see it in Sam, who seems quite obsessed with the Magnus Institute.
Just me rambling though, PLEASE share your thoughts on that with me!! Am I totally off or onto something?
Think about it. No, seriously, do. I'm just not good at lore analysing, take this and turn it into something...
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starfishinthedistance · 11 months
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Why do so many people like...have such an aversion to admitting they might have OCD? Like someone will be talking about OCD symptoms and people will be like "oh I do that but it's because of my autism!" or "oh yeah that's totally me except ADHD lol"
Like...guys I've got news for you.
ASD and ADHD do not cause obsessions or compulsions. They might cause symptoms that look similar (like dependence on routine in ASD or mental hyperactivity in ADHD), but aren't obsessions or compulsions like what's seen in OCD. If you see OCD people describing their inner thought processes and you relate, you can't chalk it up to ASD or ADHD. However ASD and ADHD are highly comorbid with OCD (about 30% for both autism and ADHD), so chances are you just also have OCD. But an autistic or ADHD person without comorbid OCD is not going to have obsessions or compulsions (again, they might have symptoms that resemble them from an outside perspective, but they aren't going to relate to OCD people describing their OCD).
The only other neurodivergencies that can cause obsessions and compulsions are Tourette's and sometimes personality disorders if we're being technical with our definitions (that could be a whole other post because it's complicated).
Like yes there's overlap between neurodivergencies, but they don't cause identical symptoms, and when you look at the internal processing they're easy to tell apart. If you have the exact same internal processing as someone with OCD, chances are you have OCD. There's probably something to be said about recent OCD demonization leading to this aversion, but that can be saved for another time.
Untreated OCD can be really deadly, you aren't going to be able to get better with OCD if you think it's just your autism or ADHD, that's why this is important.
Bottom line is: research whether certain symptoms appear in a disorder before attributing those things to that disorder to avoid misinfo. Because good God this shit has caused a lot of that.
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aikoiya · 4 months
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DP - The Nature of Ghosts & Obsessions
Regarding Danny Phantom, I read something about someone saying they were annoyed with the idea of obsessions.
They mentioned that it was ghosts being forced to do something they loved, but that this turns that thing they love into something that sucks.
That these obsessions make them one-deminsional.
That people aren't simple. They're complicated & ghosts should be too.
And I'm like... they do realize that you're not supposed to enjoy being a ghost, right?
Being a ghost isn't supposed to be fun. It's supposed to be miserable. You become a ghost when you don't feel fulfilled or content.
That's why things like unfinished business, moving on, finding peace, & letting go are such big deals for ghosts. Because they can't find rest until they let what's keeping them there, go.
I think about it like being unable to sleep. Just because the nature of being an insomniac is to not be able to sleep, doesn't mean that it's healthy for them.
Like, no one wants to become a ghost!
Becoming a ghost means that there is something missing from your life to such a degree that you refuse to leave it alone.
That's why they are portrayed as wailing or moaning. Why they're portrayed as sad or even miserable. Why they are often called "restless" or "lost." Why ghosts are noted to have routines that they rarely deviate from. That's why some seek vengeance almost single-mindedly.
Ghosts are defined by their traumas.
It's very rare that you find a truly happy ghost because the very nature of being a ghost is to not be happy because being happy would allow them to move on. (And by happy I mean fulfilled.) Thus they would no longer be a ghost.
At least, when we're talking about ghosts of the dead, anyway.
In such a situation, being a ghost is like being trapped in a state of undeath & being unable to escape.
That's why ghosts are so compelling as a concept. They're just innately tragic entities.
You take this away, you take away, like, half the entire narrative draw of ghosts.
And if ghosts aren't obsessive, then what even turned them into ghosts to begin with? What kept them from moving on to a more permanent afterlife?
It can't just be random.
I mean.. it can, but that's just really boring!
I'm just saying, without the tragic narrative & the exploration of death & its consequences, without the existential horror, why even refer to them as "ghosts" to begin with?
DP Ghost Zone Masterlist
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summonerj · 1 year
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I’ve been thinking about Obsessions and instead of Jason’s being killing the Joker it’s protecting children. Like what if he subconsciously links the the two together, killing the Joker = protection, and he doesn’t understand this is an Obsession. What if his ghost form is still his 15 year old Robin self as the standard but, he can make his form younger to put some children at ease who aren’t comfortable with an adult or teenager.
(even though he can change his age, he can’t make himself older then the age he died at(he’s also in his Robin uniform no matter the age(he’s trying to fix that)))
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batnouveaus · 1 year
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itshype · 1 year
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When people write Ghost/Liminal Batman and make his Obsession justice. Like...you're not as wrong as you could be
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but are you
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sure?
(It's not even a bit wrong, I just wanted to make an argument for family obsessed batman which would be fun especially if it shocked every non-batfam JLA member...fuck I'm going to end up writing this aren't I?)
Also, FYI I didn't even include any of Bruce's many, many love interests because I didn't want to but they're often also depicted as batfam members. Also if you include Batman INC members there are like another 20 of them.
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vibtttt · 7 months
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put my current obsessions into one drawing
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passivedecept · 11 months
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Maybe kinda weird but there is One (1) thing i really dislike in the Danny Phantom fandom.
The Obsession Fanon.
Because I believe it takes away some very important characteristic from Danny.
If you make his so-called 'obsession' protection you take away something very important.
The fact that he choose to do it.
He choose to help people. He continues to choose it no matter what. He still helps the people who bully him.
Why? Because as he said in an episode. No one else will.
He is a good person and by just saying he has to because of an "obsession" I feel like you destroy that part of his character.
If you make his 'obsession' space you also take something away. As he mentioned he wanted to be an astronaut. By making it an obsession you take away this thing he loved. Because you end up 'forcing' him to love it because he has to to survive because of 'obsession'
Sure. The ghosts have a theme but they are more than that. Sure Ember has her music thing but she still dates and does other stuff. Youngblood plays games but he is a young kid.
What would you even give Johnny and Kitty? Love? With all the arguements they have?
I dont like the Obsession thing that Fanon seems to be convinced about is Canon and I will die on this hill.
And no. It isnt Canon. As far as I remember (and I watched the show three times but i may misremember some stuff) it was never truly mentioned as obsession. You have ghosts who have goals but the humans also have goals and you dont call that obsessions.
These ghosts are just bored out of their minds and decide to do ghost stuff and cause trouble because of that or to gain more power.
Ember doesnt sing because she wants to be a popstar. She straight up is a popstar because she gained more power from people knowing her name. (An example I know of the top of my head)
Just. Really dislike the fandoms obsession with Obsessions.
Okay that is all. 1am rant over.
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some comparisons between disorders and symptoms
we've been meaning to write this for a while now, because we often receive asks that are like "how do I know if I have a schizospec disorder or (another disorder)?"
so, here are breakdowns of symptoms that affect thoughts, some things we'll take from the EASE for more officiality and clarity
intrusive and impulsive thoughts
intrusive thoughts are by nature aggressive, horrid, macabre, and/or sexual.
they're different from impulsive thoughts. impulsive thoughts are silly, usually fun, are things that wouldn't bring too much harm on yourself or others if acted upon. things you would realistically do in the spur of the moment. they are purely caused by impulsivity.
examples of impulsive thoughts:
thoughts/imagery of breaking some object
thoughts/imagery of sneaking up on a person to give them a scare
thoughts/imagery of impulsive buying, spending, etc
examples of intrusive thoughts:
thoughts/imagery of blood, catastrophes, death, etc
thoughts/imagery of harming yourself/others
thoughts/imagery of sexual harassment, violence, etc
intrusive thoughts are unwanted, cause distress, are met with resistance, and often with attempts to push them away
impulsive thoughts aren't necessarily unwanted, cause minor distress or no distress at all, aren't met with much resistance
intrusive thoughts are a symptom of many, many, many mental health issues and illnesses. though, they also happen in healthy people, occasionally.
the keyword is: occasionally.
when intrusive thoughts become frequent and constant, they become obsessions.
obsessions
obsessions are, simply put, ongoing intrusive thoughts.
they are repetitive, they won't stop showing up no matter how much resistance or attempts to ignore them is shown, and are cause of great distress.
they are often met with attempts to push them away, which can too become frequent and become compulsions.
compulsions are often present with obsessions, but not always, and the reverse is also true. obsessions are often present with compulsions, but not always.
obsessions are the defining feature of OCspec disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (both obsessive and obsessive-compulsive types, but not compulsive type) and body dysmorphic disorder.
ruminations
thoughts/imagery of any past event.
ruminations are frequent and ongoing as obsessions, but they're a bit different depending on the subtype of ruminations.
subtype 1:
the person is unable to find any reason for their tendency to obsessive-like states; they simply rethink and relive what happened during the day/past days – not motivated by perplexity, paranoid attitude, or sense of vulnerability or inferiority.
subtype 2
the obsessive-like states appear as a consequence of a loss of natural evidence, disturbed basic sense of the self, or hyperreflectivity, or they appear to be caused by more primary paranoid phenomena (suspiciousness, self-reference, etc) or a depressive state.
subtype 3
ego-dystonic, as in obsessive-compulsive disorders, with ongoing internal resistance, but a content that is not aggressive, horrid, macabre, or sexual. they're also categorised as true obsessions, but can have a different content.
subtype 4
obsession-like phenomena, which appear more as ego-syntonic (not met with resistance, or only occasionally), and with a content that is directly aggressive, sexually perverse, or otherwise bizarre. they often feature an imaginative character doing the actions, instead of the person who's experiencing the ruminations.
to make it clearer:
intrusive thoughts are unwanted, cause distress, are met with resistance, and often with attempts to push them away. they do not happen regularly, and often aren't a cause of concern, though they are distressing. everyone can experience intrusive thoughts, regardless of if they have a disorder or not.
obsessions are unwanted, cause distress, are met with resistance, and often with attempts to push them away. they happen regularly, often on a daily basis, and often are cause of concern. since they cause distress regularly, they're often basis for a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorders. again, if they don't cause distress, they're not obsessions, they might be ruminations or impulsive thoughts, or something else entirely. they are often, but not always, met with compulsions, rituals, or attempts to ignore them to neutralise the obsession.
ruminations are varied. they all have in common that they happen regularly, often on a daily basis, and they're thoughts/imagery of past events. they can just be (subtype 1); they can be in response to depression, hyperreflectivity such as anxiety, paranoia, suspiciousness, etc (subtype 2); they can be bizarre, met with resistance and distressing as obsessions, but of a different content (subtype 3); they can be of the same content as obsessions, but without the same resistance and without being distressing (subtype 4). though, they can also be met with compulsions, rituals, or attempts to ignore them. they can happen in any disorder, but especially subtype 1 can... just happen, even in healthy people. subtypes 2-4 are frequent in schizospec disorders. subtype 2 is also frequent in other non-schizospec disorders such as anxiety, depression, etc.
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padsmoony04 · 4 days
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I love how you can see my obsessions in different fictional characters or celebrities by scrolling by my blog. For example, second is like, "Oh, hey, look! Harry Potter, dead father!" And then it is like, "Oh, hey, Batman's traumatized and resurrected son!"
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home-of-renn · 1 year
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Ya'll wanna know what I love? COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIPS!
That Danny and Jazz have a very close relationship due to their parent's neglect. Jazz is pretty much the true parental figure in Danny's life and for the most part, always has been. Jazz's nagging and constant involvement in pretty much all aspects of Danny's life increases after his accident, which Danny doesn't really seem to notice cause he's got too much shit on his plate after waking up half dead. (But also cause Jazz has always been nearby and reliable - which does wonders to soothe his Obsession, so he honestly doesn't take much notice of her mother-henning).
BUT, this does end up influencing his relationship with Dani.
Even though she's the only surviving clone, she's still extremely unstable and could pretty much dissolve into goo at any moment without warning. This makes Danny's Obsession freak out and go on high alert any time he's near her. Not to mention that Dani - despite being technically the same age - is viewed as being much younger by Danny (and pretty much everyone else as well) due to how inexperienced she is and the fact that she is literally only a couple weeks/months/years old.
So all this stress about Dani's messed-up situation and the fact that there is literally nothing Danny can do to fix it (since she wasn't really meant to exist in the first place), combined with the way Jazz treats Danny, kinda skews his perception of what a sibling relationship is actually meant to look like. Tucker and Sam don't have siblings and no one else in Amity is willing to even go near the Fenton kids without so much as a ten-meter pole, let alone comment on the obvious lack of parenting going on in that family.
So, from any outside perspective, Danny's relationship with Dani is bordering on being parental/paternal. Which freaks Danny the fuck out when he finally realises why Dani gets so cranky and snappish about his overbearing tendencies (she's never experienced any form of parental affection in her very short life). Sam and Tucker never bothered mentioning anything cause they know it's probably just Danny satisfying his ghostly urges, and they also know that both Danny and Jazz have always lacked personal boundaries - that and the fact that honestly, nothing about their family is even close to being normal, including the way each member treats one another. Not to mention, when you're dealing with the kind of spooky shit they deal with on a daily basis, it's better to be in each other's pockets than too far away when something goes wrong.
But then one of them accidentally lets slip that Danny's attitude towards Dani is very much abnormal and Danny feels like he's been dunked in cold water. Cause Dani was made using Danny's own DNA, and there aren't any hard or fast rules on how you should view your totally impossible clone.
Danny's been struggling with controlling his Obsession after the crushing realisation that he had one - just one more thing that chipped away at his already contestable humanity. He knows he's overprotective and he knows that Sam, Tucker and Jazz don't mention how smothered they sometimes feel. And then he realises he's been doing it to Dani without even realising it, and once the realisation hits he's faced with a second realisation - which is that his Obsession doesn't know how to properly categorise Dani. Cause he has absolutely no desire to display any kind of fatherly affection towards her, let alone view her as a potential daughter figure (also wouldn't that make Vlad the other parent? That thought alone makes his stomach churn).
It's an embarrassing, humiliating tension he's felt since the day he met her. A twisted thing he sometimes thinks about in the dark of his room when he's trying to fall asleep. It feels guilty and shameful and something that's too close to grief. He's never even mentioned it to Tucker or Sam, and as soon as the thought pops up he dismisses it and keeps his mouth shut. He hasn't even finished school yet.
Danny doesn't want to think about his future. He doesn't even want to entertain the idea of him one day having a family of his own. But Dani never fails to make him think about it (all the things he could no longer have).
Danny's feelings towards Dani will always be familial. When they'd first met and found out what their connection was he had subconsciously drawn that line in the sand and then shoved it into a box before abandoning it in some distant corner of his mind.
Maybe, just maybe, if Danny was older he would have viewed her as a daughter.
But he won't. He's already too close to her. One day she's going to dissolve and Danny will be left inconsolable. The small still-human part of him realises that - even if the ghost in him refuses to acknowledge it.
Sometimes he feels like his Obsession has already taken away so many of his choices. Limiting his decisions and swaying his judgement. He's not entirely sure where it begins and where it ends and it makes him wonder, just how much of a different person would he be without it? Would he even be the same at all?
The moment all these realisations bloomed in his head was the day he fought with himself and convinced himself to take a step back.
So, he watches Dani from afar.
She seems happier now that she has more freedom to do what she wants without anyone looming over her shoulder. She doesn't understand how he feels - she doesn't have an Obsession. She lives her life flitting from one whim to the next.
But now she visits more, no longer staying away from Amity for as long as she can without risking Phantom coming after her.
He hadn't realised she was staying away.
Now Dani is the one who seeks him out. She wants to spend lazy days floating above the clouds basking in the sunlight. She pesters him to try every item on the Nasty Burger menu and begs him to ditch his homework to go watch a midnight screening of some tacky old horror movie from the 80s. She even convinces him to teach her the names of all the constellations as they recline on a grassy patch behind the Amity observatory (even if there wasn't much convincing involved at all).
He indulges each and every one of her childish desires. Because every time he turns his head to tell her no, all he can see are bright blue eyes dripping into a toxic green puddle. It never fails to make him bite his tongue and nod his head.
They continue the rest of their relationship with Danny keeping a close eye on that line in the sand.
He adores Dani - loves her even - and it's a feeling that grows the more time they spend together. She will always be special to him, and whatever that special thing is, it's something that doesn't need to be defined. She will always be someone important - someone who he loves the same way he loves Jazz (he makes sure of it).
-------- BUT THERE'S MORE
Not only does this anxiety-inducing realisation change the way he interacts with Dani (he no longer actively seeks her out all the time) but it also opens his eyes to the role Jazz has played in his life.
He realises that all the jokes and complaints about Jazz acting more like his mum rather than his sister aren't far from the truth. He slowly comes to terms with the fact that Jazz had a heavy hand in raising him and still continues to watch over him. It changes the way he treats her and it leaves him with a lot of guilt.
Somewhere down the line Jazz ends up realising that Danny now understands that part of their relationship, the part that Jazz had tried to hide from him - something she did to cast her parents in a better light so that Danny could have some semblance of a normal, happy family while having to grow up being a Fenton.
It hits her while her parents are still tinkering in their basement and Danny's just slipped out the window in the middle of the night to go fight a ghost. He'd seen the light under her door and let her know that he was heading out - something he'd only started doing recently. He'd stood awkwardly in the doorway and wished her goodnight before slipping intangible and disappearing from sight.
It made her realise - like switching on a lightbulb.
She'd buried herself under the covers and gone to sleep that night with swollen eyes and her library-loaned textbook dotted with salty tears.
Danny didn't comment on her puffy face the next morning and she didn't question the bruise that was blooming on the back of his neck - just handed him an ice pack and continued scrambling the eggs.
Neither of them talks about it.
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Just Danny having a complicated, anxious relationship with his clone - who has zero idea what her pseudo brother is actually feeling.
If yall haven't realised, I'm a sucker for complicated relationships
And if I'm being honest, the way Dani and Danny are depicted as twins/cousins and the two of them just readily going along with it has always been a little boring and one-note for me. I feel like having a clone - especially one that you feel a little responsible for - would open up a gigantic can of worms in regard to how you treat them and how you should feel about them. Throw Danny's ghostly Obsession into the mix you have a perfectly complicated situation.
(also I actually quite like the trans!danny headcanon - especially in regards to explaining how Dani turned out female. But in regards to this ^^^^^^^ I kinda like having Danny being cis cause it implies that Vald not only stole Danny's DNA but also mixed it with someone else's. Cause genetically speaking, it would be physically impossible for them to be clones if one has an entirely different chromosome. Which just adds another whole level of fcked up to this whole mess and just Vlad in general. Cause Danny - or at the very least, Jazz - is definitely aware that Danny's "clone" shouldn't be female and somebody realises this but can't bring themselves to speak up. Cause god forbid all of them are too young for this and too traumatised and would rather just brush that little tidbit to the side and under the rug, just so they can all move on)
(also it would leave Danny wondering who makes up the other 50% of Dani's DNA and honestly Vlad is so messed up that he could have just found a way and used his own and that would make Dani the closest thing to Dan and I don't think Danny would ever be able to face that)
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EFI - Existence Fulfilling Interest
“For Ghosts it’s called an Obsession, for Autistics it’s called a Special Interest, for ADHD it’s called Hyperfixation, and for anyone else it’s simply Passion. Being at the intersection between all of these means struggling with which term to use and when. Thanks to our little linguist though, we don’t have to struggle anymore.”
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daydreamdammit · 7 months
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might fuck around n mentally regress like ten years and make electra heart my entire identity (again)
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stoicmike · 3 months
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I don’t pursue my interests, they pursue me. -- Michael Lipsey
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