Gaza and OCD

On my tumblr I keep getting messaged by a lot of people from Gaza who made accounts to get donations to evacuate (they have been verified and such) i donate what i can and share their posts,but don't typically reply to their messages. A few people started messaging again thinking i was ignoring. So I felt bad and told that I donated and shared. There was some confronted bc one of them I sent a donation several days ago but didn't reply.to their message until later and they got confused and thought I didn't donate. I feel really bad and anxious abt it even if I know I did do it and am trying to do the right thing,the fear i might convince a family stuck in a war zone i am lying to them about such a thing terrifies me

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Username: mathsbianmathsbian

Date posted: 6w ago

Hey. Similar boat. I started deleting them all when I realized that helping individuals wasn’t really productive. There are on-the-ground organizations working to feed everyone they can, distributing supplies and medical aid, and even beginning to rebuild (planting crops, digging new wells, etc). It also helped me to consider that I can’t vet every request myself, and I can’t rely on some random tumblr blog I’ve never seen before to vet requests. And the requests have gotten spammier and spammier since tumblr took the tack of shaming people for not reblogging every dono post on their dash and linked in their inbox. So I’m very worried that some of the posts I did put on my blog (before changing my mind) may have actually been scams and that money meant for Gazans ended up elsewhere. You aren’t a bad person if you decide to stop using your blog for that altogether. You are allowed to have a stress-free corner of the internet, where you go to meme and do fannish things, rather than try and fix the world one displaced family at a time.

Username: mathsbianmathsbian

Date posted: 6w ago

@mathsbian I forgot to mention: one of the other harms of donating to individuals talking about the impossibly high costs of food is that the food is only able to get driven up so high in cost when there are that many individual families trying to buy it. Letting the bigger organizations have the money allows them to use those ingredients more efficiently to feed more people, and with only them buying ingredients(and then giving the food away), hopefully the prices will start dropping again?

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 6w ago

Hi, I struggle with a similar form of moral OCD, where I would also donate to different charities a lot of times. Trying to follow every request for money is definitely a compulsion and can be harmful to OCD recovery. I'd just advise you to try and make a calculation of how much you could and want realistically give each month and than just give that amount to a trusted charity and try to refrain from donating compulsively to anyone else. This is way more effective way to help people in need. Plus, there is less risk of getting scammed. I know it sucks that there is so much suffering in this world. And it is unfortunate we can't help everyone. But we have to find a way to deal with this somehow.

Username: 🌟✨️🌟✨️

Date posted: 6w ago

One reason I ruminate about it particularly though is i keep getting messages or asks on tumblr and I feel bad if I ignore them. I turned off messages for now but it only really works for ones I didn't reply to.

Username: 🌟✨️🌟✨️

Date posted: 6w ago

Some confusion* not confronted

Username: brokengirl

Date posted: 23w ago

Religion ocd question- reply if you are religious

So i am a Catholic. My brain keeps saying that if I don’t make big posts on social media it means I am embrassed or ashamed of my religion. I am not at all!!!!!!! Idk why but I don’t want to make big posts about my religion. I always post on social media but my brain guilt trips me when I dotn make some posts. It keeps accusing me. I keep having anxiety like i am doing something so bad. For instance today it said that if I don’t make this post with a paragraph about my religion it means I am embrassed or ashamed. I am not so confused bc i am not not posting it becaue i am embrasses or ashamed or shamed wheatver. It’s not becaue of anything bad if i was ashamed or embrassed i would know but i am not. I always make posts me not posting a whole paragraph dotn me being ashamed or embrassed or don’t want to be judged it i was worried i would be judged i woudl t make teh posts i just don’t want to i guess seem like I am over doing it? Not that u can ever but idk i am not ashamed or embrassed i don’t care if people judge me for my religion or my posts i just don’t want to overdo it? I guess I don’t want people to be like “she posts a lot about that” or stuff. Is that normal? It’s not becaue i am ashamed or embrassed. M’y ocd won’t leave me alone. I guess I don’t want it to be in a ocd way? Someone help- if ur not religious don’t reply to this. But me not wanting people to think taht i post too much about it isn’t me being ashamed or embrassed u know. Because I don’t care about being judged for my religion.

Username: brokengirl

Date posted: 23w ago

Urgent- reply if you are religious! (Catholic)

I already make a post about this but i need to hear more thoughts on this. Let’s be clear- i am not asking for reassurance i just want to know how to deal with this ocd. Basically, my ocd keeps doing this thing were, for instance if i don’t - make a religious post - report a religious post -Post certain tik toks (Examples of many) It accuses me of being ashamed or embrassed of my religion. I AM NOT!!!!!!!!!!! It makes me post so much (not too much) but I don’t want to NOT in a bad way- i just don’t want to all the time. I feel like religion isn’t all about that and it keeps accusing me. Just now i saw a photo of Priests. They were wearing a certain hat. I ddint want to repost it becwsue 1. Not bc of anything really 2. I am sad to say I ddint like the hat- i felt bad about it, ocd make me do compulsions over it. I now like and appreciate the hat. I make the repost. But I just feel like ocd is making me think if I don’t do soemthing I am ashamed or embrassed and it is getting out of hand. How do i separate ocd from this???????

Username: Lilly5679

Date posted: 16w ago

Is it in my head

I have constantly been feeling like if I hit one arm, I have to hit the other and if I set something down and it just didn’t look right or feel right I had to do it again or I had to move it to a different spot in my room I’ve had never been a clean freak, which is mainly what I get told is OCD And I don’t know if I should even have this app. I don’t know if I actually have it. I’m constantly worried that I did something in my past that harmed others and that’s why people don’t like me or I’m constantly worried People are constantly watching me and I don’t know if that’s OCD or if I have it so please tell me I will delete this app and never think of it again if I don’t I just really wanna know

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