you know what hurts? when someone slowly stops asking about your day, your life, your thoughts... and one day you realize they stopped being curious about you a long time ago
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Doing this new thing where I try to cancel out my “This person doesn’t actually like me” brain worms by activating my “It is imperative not to harm a loved one” directive with the observation “This person would feel hurt by being doubted like that”
imagine being a dead animal on the side of the road just laying there decaying and people in cars just keep passing you and passing you and passing you and passing you and
the thing about OCD is that talking to others about your fears usually devolves into reassurance-seeking, which is just another compulsion that perpetuates the cycle. so it’s ultimately something you must face alone
do you ever notice yourself getting bad again. like, you know you’re not doing work that needs to be done, you know you’re not cleaning, you know you’re not taking care of yourself, you know all the things you need to do to start trying to feel better. but you just can’t
nows a good PSA:
please be cautious around people who obsessively hate/vent about others and generally keep making fusses about situations or individuals (shit talking / gossiping) because you never know how much of the truth they are spinning and how manipulative it can be