i'm a person who actually has severe obsessive compulsive disorder and intrusive thoughts that stem from the disorder, and from what i can see, jax does NOT have intrusive thoughts at all. intrusive thoughts are supposed to be ego dystonic, meaning they conflict with your personal morals and values. anyone who actually suffers from ocd does NOT WANT TO ACT ON THESE THOUGHTS. BECAUSE THEY ARE INTRUSIVE. meanwhile, jax seems perfectly content to act on his evil thoughts throughout the series.
if jax actually had intrusive thoughts about harming women, he wouldn't actually be harming women in the circus, and instead would be ruminating over harming women and doing compulsions in an attempt to stop the thoughts about harming women from even existing in his mind. there are plenty of people with ocd who suffer with harm and misogyny themes. i've met them! it can be incredibly damaging to your psyche to deal with a constant barrage of intrusive violent misogynistic imagery in your brain that you can't control, and often times you can't even talk to other people about it because the thoughts are so disturbing, and people without any understanding of the disorder might think you're evil for having the thoughts
i think that this misuse of language used to describe symptoms of a mental illness is genuinely harmful. if everyone has intrusive thoughts, if 'intrusive thoughts' is watered down to mean funnygoofy randomly weird thoughts, or even, disturbingly, your own violent bigoted impulses that you enjoy, what language do people with ocd have to describe their experiences? i for certain don't want to be lumped in with actual misogynists who enjoy harming women, what the fuck!
it pisses me off when people use the term 'intrusive thoughts' so flippantly because it just erases the real experiences and suffering of people who actually have this often life-ruining mental disorder
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