peas and loaf

I took part in another Turbophone telephone game recently that took place over April and May, hosted by my good buddy @bowelfly and assisted by team captain @slowedmountains! The team theme this time was Sword and Sorcery, and I was immensely proud to serve Team Sword (after spending approximately 2 minutes on Team Sorcery and promptly defecting to help plug a schedule gap lmaaoooooo). Here's my piece, and I also helped out by making a banner for bowelfly's website!

The poor beast here goes on an incredible odyssey, even after having it's wee neck 'sploded, and you must view everyone's results NOW -> Go check out the results down below! Both teams absolutely killed it and the wealth of talent and skill on display is both inspiring and humbling

It's talked about like being obsessively neat or repeating pointless tasks is the main part of it, when really those are just potential symptoms.

The main thing behind OCD is not being about to turn off a thought. There's a thing where most people can just stop thinking about something. If it's over, it's not relevant, it doesn't matter anymore, people can turn their attention away. For OCD, that mechanism can get stuck. And some thought that was supposed to just temporarily pass through your head just stays there. An image of an object rotating. An anxiety about something bad happening. A wish that you made on a dandelion. These are all things that have at some point gotten stuck in my head, sometimes for years at a time.

The compulsions, the rituals, are the person trying to address the thought so it can go away. After all, if you're worried about the door not being locked you can check the lock. But for someone with OCD, that doesn't make the stuck thought go away. So they check it again. And again. And they made a ritual, maybe if I check it exactly five times, I'll know that it's locked and I can let this worry go.

It helps a little. It feels like you're doing something. But it doesn't solve the problem. Actual therapy for OCD involves not doing the compulsion. Instead, you ignore the thought, move around it, try not to give it space in your life. Your mind won't let the thought go normally, so instead you fill yourself with other thoughts. Other parts of your life.

"This show is problematic because the hero didn't kill the villain at the end": When does he steal the bread?

"These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don't kiss at the end! What the fuck?": When does he steal the bread?