Yo can I vent for a second? People on tumblr piss me off so much. And by that I mean the fucking people who go “oh I had an intrusive thought about eating a leaf lol!!!!! My icky poopoo brain said to draw a peepee on my forehead xd”. Like. That’s. Not an intrusive thought but ok skinny legend. Like that’s so fucking funny right? It’s so funny to read that shit when you have literal obsessions over calling people slurs you can’t reclaim or wanting to hit people you know and love. It’s so funny when your intrusive thoughts make you think you’re unworthy of love. It’s so hilarious, right? Because intrusive are so fucking quirky and cool right? Yes, wow. It’s so funny that ppl will panic to hell and back because they’re scared they’re pedophiles, or that their sexual orientation has been a lie. Or that they hate their partners. Yes, so quirky./s

Yeah, it's stupid how the general public think of OCD as "cute". Like, no, not unless never wanting to leave your house again and destroying your life and dealing with intense overwhelming sensations that feel like your brain is ripping apart is "cute" which I personally don't think so.

Not to mention those posts?? Spread a lot of misinformation about what intrusive thoughts are. Unless eating a leaf is distressing because you’re scared of being contaminated (if it were on the ground), or if jumping into a huge puddle somehow is related to an obsession, what these people experience aren’t even intrusive thoughts, just... thoughts.

Damn bastards don't even know how good they have it! To be able to just... think.

Mine too! And no it's not irrational either. We suffer in incomprehensible ways... ways that (in my opinion) no human should have to suffer. So for people to just play coy about it is extremely frustrating.

Literally!! It makes my blood boil and it’s not even irrational because if anyone claimed they had any disorder just because of some normal but uncommon thing they do and I had that disorder, I’d be pretty mad.

Fuck em tbh? Probably not awful people but trivialising it like that hurts so much. Imagine if they did that to anorexia, I can't imagine considering society does take anorexia seriously (thank god).

Absolutely!! It really rubs me up the wrong way to see people reduce ocd symptoms to wanting to eat leaves you know? Because it’s worse than that.

Made me wanna jump in front of a train more times than I can count. I've had depression too clinically, in my experience it is a baby compared to OCD. It's hell and these people need to get that through their thick skull, society in general, maybe then we'd get better help, as well as quicker help.

The thing is, everybody has intrusive thoughts. I had intrusive thoughts before I developed ocd, I just didn’t give a shit about them. People misunderstand the distress and torture associated with ocd (especially others with mental health issues) because they think “well I sometimes imagine jumping off a bridge when I’m standing on one, so I have intrusive thoughts” And don’t understand that intrusive thoughts for us are stuck on repeat and anxiety provoking. They only have their experience to compare so they equate it with ours when it shouldn’t be.