I want adventure in the great wide somewhere

cheekbonesandupturnedcollar:

mynakedneed:

foresabaly:

the-halo-haven:

dusk-the-psycho:

All of these…minus getting ready in 7 hours and cleaning the entire house |8

U should make one where, well, this always happens to me : I lock the house door, to leave, spend the rest of the day worrying of if its still locked or not.

Oh dear. A meme has taught me I have a problem.

Yeah, that’s right. OCD otter is perfectly accurate for what it’s like to be living with obsessive compulsive disorder. When you have all these little quirks and things that you do because you feel like doing them, or they slightly annoy you.

It’s not extreme anxiety and the inability to change your habits. It’s totally “Might as well clean the entire house”, “8 times just in case”. It’s definitely not being in an incredibly troubled state of existence where you have to touch everything twice or you have to scrub the same pot over and over again with scalding hot water.

It’s definitely as simple as “Oh, I’m going to shake the sugar container so it’s level again. Because I’m obsessive, and it’s a little uneven and I want it even.”

No. I’m done with sarcasm. This is dumb. Have you ever sat in the middle of a room with the lights out, curled into a little ball, afraid and inable to touch anything? Have you ever finished a math test and erased every single answer so you could do it again in pen? Have you ever deliberately picked something up, then put it down, only to pick it up again a different way?

Not because you want to, or because you feel like it. But because you are inable to do so without the entire world falling apart.

Stop taking a serious mental condition and oversimplifying it so you feel quirky and unique. Take that desperate need to feel like a special snowflake and shove it up your ass. Because until you learn that Obsessive Compulsive Disorder isn’t “Oh no I think I made a typo in my password I’m going to delete the WHOLE THING and START OVER oh NO I must be OCD because I took an extra cautionary step”, stop posting shit like this.

Talk to me when your anxiety over seemingly insignificant things cripples your life. Talk to me when you have to count, recount, undo, redo, and touch certain things for fear of an unidentifiable and inevitable doom. Talk to me when you can be formally diagnosed with OCD because your mind forces you to do something.

Talk to me when you learn that OCD is not an adjective, but a noun. Not a quirk, trait, or personality type.

I do not speak for the population of people who have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I don’t know of anyone else’s experience than my own. But I do know mine, and I do know that what you’re describing is not what you think you’re describing. Read this and pay specific attention to the section labeled ‘symptoms’- “Obsessions or compulsions that cause major distress or interfere with everyday life”. I don’t think you correcting someone’s grammar or hitting buttons multiple times falls under the category of ‘cause[s] major distress or interfere[s] with everyday life’.

I’m going to say this again and embolden and italicize it because it’s that important-

Stop taking a serious mental condition and oversimplifying it so you feel quirky and unique.

^ This.

Listen to her.

(Source: what-a-8a8e, via justoneoftheweasleys)