I feel like cancel culture is the enemy of OCD. It goes against everything so many of us have difficulty accepting- forgiveness, self-improvement, and feeling like a morally good person. Does anybody else get severely triggered by people being “cancelled” over small things and thinking: “That could be me someday”
I’m struggling with this badly right now 🥹 I get a lot of attention on social media getting 20k-100k views and people love my content but I have done stuff in the past I regret deeply. I see people in my community/fandom getting cancelled and it gives me the urge to confess all of the bad stuff I’ve done and i deserve to be cancelled so I need to “expose/cancel” myself 😞😞
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Yes!! I believe the internet is so unforgiving. It’s so triggering to be online! The impact it has on people affects all of us sm and how we think people would think of us
Cancel culture, the rise in magical thinking and esoteric believes. Not a good time for OCD sufferers indeed (though still better than getting locked into an asylum in the 19th century...) I just try to use this as exposure and a reminder that I should focus on my values instead if what whatever mob thinks is right. You can never please everyone anyway.
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It triggers me so bad 😭
What’s up y’all, Does anyone ever deal with the fear of being canceled. In the past year all of my dreams that I’ve worked really for are unfolding and it’s crazy I’m doing so well but I’ve dealt with an insane amount of imposter syndrome and this ocd fear of being canceled for something I’ve done and losing everything. I have skeletons in my closet like everyone else. I’m so happy with the lessons from I’ve learned from my mistakes yet I’m terrified I’ll be torn away from all my hard work and outcasted from my community by some online bullshit.
I just can't get.stuff out of my head where it's like what if I did something taboo 4 years ago and don't remember, then somehow it gets public and I get cancelled. Sometimes I feel stupid like what the hell am I thinking but other times I'm panic mode with anxiety. ❤️ How does cancel culture affect ur ocd? No affirmations please 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
I have done lots of “bad/problematic/immoral” stuff in my past. My ocd latches onto this so badly :( I have a large social media platform and usually get 20k-100k views quite often. The stuff I did in the past was probably “cancel-worthy” stuff. I have the constant urge + scenarios in my head to make a video “confessing” that I’m a bad person and I deserve to be cancelled although I realised the stuff I did in the past was bad and I don’t do them anymore. The things could range from months ago to stuff when I was a child. Seeing famous people get cancelled is triggering for me and if I see someone being cancelled for something I’ve done in my past I get so scared and anxious and start searching and ruminating. I have a constant feeling of guilt that I’ll never be perfect or be able to call myself a “good person” My ocd also focuses on my partner. He used to say Offensive jokes and more but I made him aware and he realised and stopped. He still makes occasional jokes nowhere near as bad as he used to but when he makes a joke my brain is suddenly like “oh no what if people think that joke is problematic” and because I saw like one person on TikTok be offended by something similar, I feel the need to immediately tell my boyfriend that he shouldn’t say the joke and it makes him frustrated because it’s almost every day my ocd is nitpicking for anything slightly “bad”. He means no harm with the jokes and doesn’t make the same ones he used to as he matured more and realised they were weird but my ocd wants him to be an absolutely perfect person with perfect morals whatever and he isnt allowed to do anything even slightly bad or he’s an awful person. And same for me, I need to be perfect. Anyone else relate? And does this sound like moral scrupulosity ocd?
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