Perhaps I am a miscreation: on OCD

[rhipowered]

So I'm sitting here, it's just a little after noon, and I am thinking about how to start this post on OCD. I started writing it in my brain last night, and like most things in my brain, it sounded much better up there, and then the good bits fell out through the sieve that is my short-term memory.1 While I wanted to write about the media and

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[rhipowered]

Monk...I can't watch, because the advertising pissed me off, and also because I'm afraid it might be triggery. Which is a pity, I like Tony Shalhoub, but I really want to know if they could call someone with any other illness 'defective' and get away with it. This was not all that long ago, damn it.

(I was told by someone with OCD that The Aviator did OCD well, but could be triggery; I keep forgetting to watch it or not having enough spoons to do so.)

[anagramofbrat]

Thank you for posting this - it takes guts to bare what's going on in your mind to everyone and to make it public. I still have trouble with that, honestly. :)

One amusing note, which is only funny because it's me and a testament to the warped way in which I think:

Others can assist--through CBT, medication, whatever

One recommendation when trying to explain your experiences to "laypeople" is spelling out your acronyms, cause people may not cotton on to the jargon right away. I eventually figured out you meant "cognitive behavioral therapy", but I gotta admit, my first thought was "cock/ball torture" and I was very confused for a split second. BUT AGAIN THAT'S ONLY BECAUSE IT'S ME AND MY BRAIN LIVES IN THE GUTTER.

[anagramofbrat]

LOL, well no, (somewhere in me is a long ass article about BDSM and mental health), but I seriously doubt that's what she meant.

[rhipowered]

Thank you for reading it. And lols, I should do. I was just in shortcut mode because I kept getting WORDS SPILLING OUT OH GOD.

[fox1013]

I love you and appreciate that you posted this, because yes yes yes yes YES. All of this, yes. So much yes.

(Do you mind if I link to this? Because- if I haven't mentioned- YES.)

When I apply to jobs and people ask about weaknesses, I give the old stand-by of "perfectionist" because saying "I have OCD" seems inappropriate. "Perfectionism" sounds like a way to avoid giving an actual answer and what people don't understand is that I mean I'm a perfectionist the way that monsoons are like drizzles.

[rhipowered]

Thank you for reading, too, and I'm really glad it rang true to your experience too omg. Anything public that I post can be linked to, no questions asked.

The thing about me is that I'm actually NOT detail-oriented, thanks to the medication, the ADD, and my general temperament. In terms of problems and solutions, I tend to see the big picture...but at the same time, I do have this high-powered focus (to quote Silence of the Lambs) from time to time.

I can alphabetize like no one's business.

[ashestothestars]

Just when I think I'm alone in feeling this, something (someone) guides me to this post, and I find myself nodding and crying and a whole whack of emotions at once.

Thank you for posting this, a million times thank you.

[rhipowered]

You're welcome, I'm really glad you came by. And thank you for reading.

Though your icon is sort of hypnotic. [stares at it for a long time]

[ashestothestars]

I have a few of those. :) Can't keep too many around or I'll sit and stare for what feels like hours (Damned ADD).

[rhipowered]

These are the things people do not realize about ADD...WATCHING OF THE HYPNOTIC ICONS.

[thoracopagus]

It amazes me how easily people disregard the part of OCD that stands for disorder, and don't understand that there's a world of difference between being organized and inflexible and having compulsions that interfere with day to day lifeIMO medication is entirely feasible because there is a chemical/biological aspect to psychology that you really can't ignore. Even in able-bodied people whose nervous systems are 100% healthy, moods are dictated by things like blood sugar and all the chemicals that come into play with things like OCD, so coming down on people who take medication is, to me, like telling someone who hasn't eaten for ten hours to suck it up and think positive. Maybe they can power through it and pretend their mood isn't shit, but they're still hungry and their blood sugar is still low, and no amount of willpower is going to make that healthy. Mental health has physical factors, and when medication is necessary to deal with physical components of a disorder, I don't see how that points to psychological weakness

[rhipowered]

Indeed, yeah. But they do it, probably because it's hard to understand...

On the medication front, by the way, much (though not all) of the reason it comes up is because there was a massive Bullshit Post by a moderately well-known author recently about how she thinks ADD and bipolar disorder lead to creativity and shouldn't be medicated, especially not when you see it in kids, and...yeah. People got upset. There's a good link roundup here.

[thoracopagus]

I think you need to be careful medicating teenagers, although really, be careful medicating anyone, but not for that fucking reason. Not to fucking mention that there's a reason creative people do creative things and we leave policy and treatment to fucking professionals, please to be showing me your PhD in psychiatric medicine and human development before you make a statement like that, Hobb.

/hasn't even read post and is already upset, oops.