@nealjclark1 my father is an out-and-proud “polyamorous kinkster” and my mother is so addicted to opioids that she has depended on methadone to stay out of jail for more than 3 weeks at a time since I was 10 years old.
No, actually, it is their fault.
@AlexEdelman My family’s name was changed because my X-great-grandfather John Buckle, whose only record is the army thanking him for killing so many Indians for free, probably made a pun calling himself Bu-kill and it got written down on the sum they paid to his illiterate widow
@catpoopburglar@Squattocrat i was one point away from getting a perfect score on the English/vocab portion of the SAT and I haven’t been able to get above 91st after taking it thrice
@zofidoggy @MsShadowLovely Thank u for assuming these are intrusive thoughts but that would require these thoughts didn’t align with my values. I actually want to call my boss a bitch and hit people so so so badly that I struggle to control it without medication.
@MsShadowLovely I have both ADHD and OCD. These aren’t intrusive thoughts, those have to be ego dystonic. Thus is my impulse control being so poor that I struggle to stop myself from doing knee jerk reactions (things i actually want to do until I consider the consequences)
@_cream_gravy I was so socially averse that I couldn’t even speak to people online. my husband dm’d me for 4 years until I accidentally opened the message thread during a good self-esteem day. He immediately drove 9 hours and proposed to me before I got scared & ran off again
@MsShadowLovely The only thing I like doing is the first thought that comes to my head in any given situation. which is really unfortunate because I have the humor of an “EPIC guys getting hit in the nuts montage” from 2011 and sometimes driving recklessly
@MsShadowLovely you guys have a different adhd than me. I have that sensation but for things like “call your boss a bitch to her face” or “zone out while driving and hit a guardrail” or “hit this dude in the face because it would be moderately amusing for 10 seconds” or
@sleepjeans If no one uses Novocain, then they’re probably trying to communicate “lidocaine (or perhaps also benzocaine. maybe bupivicaine. didn’t work very well for me the last time I was at the dentist.”
@irlbmi2 well the idea isn’t to actually be hygienic. it’s to sit in the water with a nice bath bomb or use a new product that makes your face feel nice. if you’re just in there scrubbing like usual, it’s not really self-care
@AcerSaccharum3 I just had a hospital birth where they threatened CPS, forced me to speak to a crisis worker, and berated me at 9cm (9!!!) for insisting I take the monitors (which weren’t tracing) off and give birth and position in a position other than my back. Traumatic for no reason at all
@EedenEnne love the spectrum of ocd responding to this image because I developed OCD from a therapist encouraging me to use self-administered mind tricks to stop myself from freaking out.
if you’re prone, there’s a thin, thin line where any thought, good or bad, somehow leads to obsession
@Abomination81 In 2024, someone called my ex-fiancée sounding like a younger version of me, claiming I was in jail and needed a large sum of cash for bail. It sounded a lot like the voice from a video I had posted to a public instagram account that I got locked out of during our relationship
@parissrevenge 25% a toss-up between other drugs, severe sleep deprivation, severe hearing loss, or a condition you’d already be aware you have (epilepsy, etc).
But knowing it’s not real and being able to contemplate the seriousness of it basically rules psychosis or psychiatric illness
@parissrevenge hallucinosis is stereotypically seen as a drinker’s disease. The medical threshold for high-risk drinking behavior is a lot lower than you think. There are some more uncommon things that could cause it (epilepsy, Parkinson’s, tumors) but it’s normally 75% alcohol 1/2
@mayssdiaryy not that it changes much but half of her appearance is just her bone structure. Pre-ED she still had bones showing + a disproportionately large jaw that makes her body look gaunt by comparison. she would look severely underweight even with mild restriction