On some level I love "OCD" as a concept because it has given me tremendous relief to know that my life is not some unique solitary torture chamber. Through OCD existing at all, and as an experience that affects many people, I have a sense of vision and touch.
It's actually very difficult to divorce your identity from your particular strain of suffering a lot of times. It's not funny or pathetic that people do this, I'm struggling with it myself
When you have a name for the thing that has caused you pain, you feel something like reverence for it because it's such a relief to know there's a Reason, that you're not just consigned to incomprehensible suffering for the rest of your life
I wish I could experience the innocent admiration for and unreserved optimism about chemical manufacturing which so thoroughly permeated 1950s American pop culture.
Plastics, refrigerants, insecticides, you name it, they loved it. The future was bright with manmade materials.
people who give advice like "i got over my self-hatred by telling myself its narcissistic and evil to focus on myself so much!" seem to have fundamentally different mental issues than everyone else. like that doesnt work for the rest of us, girl. you had something else going on
This is the truthnuke for me. My experience has always been that I’ve nerfed myself in dating by expecting men to be as uniformly attracted to this as they are online.
Your grandmother knew the names of demons before psychology invented new words for them. She blessed bread because bread is covenant, covered mirrors because reflection is dangerous, threw salt because salt remembers the sea that birthed all life. superstition is what she called sight
Like nobody fucking uses the word "equal" to mean "identical" you smug dishonest little shithead, in colloquial Western English 99% of the time "equal" refers to value and everybody knows that. I know it's not your first day here.
Some people love doing this thing where they say "men and women aren't equal" and then if you get mad they go "aw shucks I didn't say one was BETTER than the other... YOU assumed that ;)" because they've just now discovered the bullshit word games libtards were doing 10 years ago