ocd feels like your brain is literally poisoned and it’s seeping into your entire being. it’s paralyzing and extremely terrifying when you can’t trust your brain
october is OCD awareness month. i wish for people to educate themselves on OCD and to understand that it is a debilitating mental health disorder. it isn’t just being organised and clean. OCD has taken years of my life from me and i wish people knew how awful it really is.
Actually the worst thing you can show your kids is that you sacrificed your entire life for them. Not only does it make them feel guilty eventually about what you had to do for them, it also teaches them that marriage and children is an onerous burden they should avoid.