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

Real Events OCD

Username: mathsbianmathsbian

Date posted: 15d 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: 15d 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: 15d 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: 15d 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: 16d ago

Some confusion* not confronted

Username: Givenup

Date posted: 24w ago

Pocd and youtubers part 2

Also just now someone messaged me with 17 comments and i couldnt see them... im so scared they think i did something inappropriate and horrible when i dont ever want to ever groom, or be inappropriate with minors in any way...

Username: Elicambel

Date posted: 24w ago

message for people who have struggled w OCD &🌽

TW🔴 Ive seen ALOT of posts on here lately surrounding this topic so i thought would post something to help. I’ve dealt with real events and false memory’s surrounding this topic but i tried to change my perspective and hopefully this helps any of you who have experienced or are experiencing something similar,so i personally believe people with OCD put WAY too much responsibility on themselves, so even IF you did see something that was bad/immoral, you wouldn’t of known, and it would have nothing to do with you and be the person who distributed the videos fault, another thing i remind myself is that it’s not immoral to take risks, we take risks every single day which is not immoral to do so, don’t put too much responsibility on yourselves , another thing is that most of these things have happened when we were children/teenagers and it’s not fair to ridicule yourselves for things that happened around that age. Another thing is that it’s very easy to get ourselves lost in the internet and we aren’t creating any of the content, just viewing it so you shouldn’t blame yourselves for seeing anything you thought was bad/immoral, it’s unfair on us and the people who post these things should be blamed, no one else. I wish all of you all the best and i hope this post helped to switch your perspectives on this kind of thing, keep up the good work ❤️

Username: brokengirl

Date posted: 19w 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.

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