#this is ocd

So, to my followers, my family: If you are 18 years old or older, I have a discord server that I've created for those of us with OCD who want to socialize and chill WITHOUT making the topic of OCD the focus. I'm trying to get the following activities up and running:

Crafting circle

Writers circle

Movie nights

Book club

Co-op gaming sessions

Body-doubling for studying/working

ALSO: if you're interested in helping to run this discord, please send me a DM on the app (where I'm most active now): ElsaTheCow#1383

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Let me know. Here's the link: https://discord.gg/64Wjfakm2y

What are SUDs?

SUDs stands for Subjective Units of Distress. It's the fanciest way possible of saying "Rate your emotional pain". Some people use a scale of 0-100 (yes, really), but I prefer 0-10 when I work with students. I think that, otherwise, it gets way too overwhelming!

Imagine sitting in a small cage. Imagine being trapped in there with no way out. Imagine being forced to watch people die in front of you, the whole world being ripped apart, all the people you love lying dead on the ground, diseases spread, people being hit by cars, robbers stealing other's property, fights and explosions and plains that crashes, and it happens right there, in front of your eyes.

But there is nothing you can do about it. You can scream you can cry you can yell but no one hears you. You can hit the walls, try to reach out your hand, do your best to break the lock but you can't get out. 

You just have to sit there and watch, imprisoned in this cage. 

Now, imagine the person inside of this cage, being your mind. It's not real, it's not really there, it's just thoughts. But it's still so real.

Hello and welcome to our newest members,  smilingoutsidedeadinside, astrolope, and ghiralicious! I hope everybody had a fantastic week.

So as you all know,  OCD Awareness week is coming up! I thought it'd be cool if every person following this blog sent in either a poem, essay, paper, selection from a memoir, song lyrics, painting, drawing, sketch or photograh about OCD. It can tell your OCD story, it can be about the OCD, whatever you want it to be as long as it relates to me.

Send them to me along with your name and age, and I'm going to turn it into a book called: We are OCD.

You can start sending them to me anytime, my email is [email protected].

Welcome again to all our members and have a fantastic rest of the week!

Stay Strong!