#ocd things

Your OCD awareness/advocacy should not stop when people have “unsavoury” obsessions. People with pOCD, zOCD, harm OCD and moral scrupulosity OCD deserve to have a place in your advocacy too. It’s a mental health disorder, it’s not going to be sunshine and rainbows.

Having OCD is like your brain trying to cancel you on twitter and filming its own horrendously put together cancelation video on you, using evidence from long deleted tweets and increasingly conspiratorial Reddit posts. It has extremely clickbait thumbnails too, but they work, and then you can’t stop watching even though you know how bad and inaccurate it is.

Having moral OCD and making an actual genuine mistake, or reflecting back on your actions and having actual legitimate regrets, is like handing yourself a loaded gun and convincing yourself you’re a bad person if you don’t pull the trigger.