- Date posted
- 3y
A very pessimistic post, and mentions of self-harm
Please don't read this post if you're feeling very low and starting to recover. I got triggered by the comments and the chat of a video about intrusive thoughts from HealthyGamerGG, a mental health platform on yt. The video was about a post published on reddit by someone who had pocd, that talked about ****philic thoughts, and while dr K is amazing and offered an insight about how our brain works, the chat immediately judged this person, saying that it was too far. Everytime the word **** was pronounced felt like a gunshot. https://youtu.be/pj8AEjNE6VY Is this our cruel fate? To be inevitably judged and demonized by others because they can't understand our condition? Everyone, including ourselves, sees us as monsters. We didn't choose to be born like this. Pocd is doomed to be misunderstood and demonized. Even that mental health community doesn't want anything to do with us. That community was literally built around mental health, composed by people seeking for help and advices for their own struggles, helping each other overcoming that, but when it came to this, they didn't hesitate to judge. This made me realize that we are rejects, outcasts. I can't even blame them, if I didn't experience ocd at first hand I might have been judgemental too. Some of the comments threads failed to grasp the essential point of ocd: they just started talking about the topic of ****philia, it seemed like they didn't care to make/didn't understand the fundamental difference between a **** and someone with pocd and it triggered me, because I might as well as be in denial, I'm not even diagnosed. They were using intrusive thoughts and ********* as synonyms. The worst thing you could do is compare a person who has pocd to a **** and the comments were full of that, not grasping the very concept of intrusive thoughts. That they are unwanted. I was at the verge of crying. I don't know why but I wanted to go on a rampage, I knocked down my chair, threw some objects, and repetitely punched my door until I peeled a little of my skin. I even thought about cutting myself, I took the knife and pressed it against the shoulder, but I didn't have the courage to do it. I turned off the light, put on my earphones and sitted on my chair. And I got immersed in my thoughts. Then I layed down on the floor. Some hours passed where I didn't do anything. Just thinking. But I'm calm now. Why, of all the themes that my ocd could have been, did it have to be about the thing that I despise and fear the most? The most unforgivable thing for society from a moral standpoint? Even murder can be forgiven, but this theme is just deplorable, unforgivable. Even being a victim to pocd it's a guilt itself. It doesn't matter how many times I try to go around it, preaching for mental health, empathy, forgiveness and solidariety, it doesn't change the real nature of my thoughts: they're unforgivable and disgusting, and so I am for being born like this. I was just deluding myself into even thinking there was a glimpse of hope. I'm just a defective machine and I should never have been born.