Wolfram
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- 1y
How do you see ocd?
How do you all see ocd? I see a lot of demonised perspectives on it. Just curious as to how you view it.
anonymous314anonymous314
- Date posted
- 1y
I look at it from a different way. I’ve seen people make analogies between OCD and a crying baby and how you have to pay no attention to the intrusive thoughts just like you wouldn’t to a child who wouldn’t stop crying for it to stop crying eventually. Some people call it a “bully” in their head. I completely understand that people choose to look at their ocd in this way but I have a different perspective. I like to think that ocd is just my brain trying to protect me from what it considers as “danger” and that’s why it sends me so many false alarms. Ofc, my brain is trying to protect me but I have to understand that it’s doing the wrong job. It’s trying to save me from things I don’t need to be saved from because the threat isn’t actually real even if it feels to be that way. It’s very frustrating, debilitating and depressing to have ocd and I totally get that people demonise it and I have too at times when it becomes very unbearable but this is my overall understanding and I think it comes from a place of compassion for my mind. It makes me feel more human. This understanding has helped me be kinder towards myself and less angry at my brain for being this way
Wolfram Wolfram
- Date posted
- 1y
I like this. I saw it as a demon in my teen years and then apart of me with other themes. Now, years later I see it as an innocent reaction by a brain designed to protect us.
anonymous314anonymous314
- Date posted
- 1y
@Wolfram Yes exactly
NicaNica
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- 1y
It’s a malfunction of the brain that I do not take seriously.
Mowgli Mowgli
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- 1y
I made a decision not to view ocd in scary monster terms, as it just made it worse, like I was believing in its storyline. When I started erp here it was suggested to give ocd a character I could talk back to. At first this was the bunny from Donnie Darko, but that was again, scary. So I changed it to the actor John candy, like an over worried anxious neurotic uncle who’s just trying to look out for me, then put him in a bunny suit to add to the character being not really scary. So to me now ocd is John candy in a bunny suit I thank him for his worries, he’s just trying to look out for me, I say “I’m busy right now, nothing to stress about, I’m drawing and don’t have time for something so trivial” or “yea yea whatever, it might happen, it might not, I don’t care, you always go on about stuff” the picture him sulking off into the other room
Wolfram Wolfram
- Date posted
- 1y
This made me laugh. Glad this works for you 😊
Newerthannewb82Newerthannewb82
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- 1y
Perfectly normal.
Wolfram Wolfram
- Date posted
- 1y
In what sense?
Newerthannewb82Newerthannewb82
- Date posted
- 1y
@Wolfram I mean it's not even particularly rare but anything that occurs in people is technically normal.
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