Me: I definitely don't have #OCD
Also Me: I ate a green apple yesterday so today I need to eat a red one so there's no over surplus on red apples

Punk rock science fiction by an alien from the future. Written in smells and translated in to words by Eric Gordon. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/water-dogs-eric-gordon/1147799755?ean=9798988816157
#youngadult #ya #punkrock #Ramones #sciencefiction #scifi #specfic #speculativefiction #aliens #unicorns #faeries #fairies #magic #superpowers #ocd #autism #author #writer #books #humor #fun #funny

Know any young readers with OCD? https://medium.com/@ocd-free/a-gift-for-a-child-with-ocd-4bb7ea109c4b
#ocd #mentalhealth #sciencefiction #books #reading #adventure #fun #funny #humor #timetravel

There’s no definitive evidence that Stanley Kubrick was autistic, but his obsession with symmetry in films like The Shining or 2001: A Space Odyssey is fascinating. As someone with OCD, I relate to this fixation—it’s a trait I’ve noticed in myself. Is this focus on symmetry common among autistic people, or is it just a creative quirk? Curious to hear your thoughts!
#Kubrick #Autism #OCD #AuDHD #neurodivergent #cinema

I think this is a crime against humanity. I wonder if I can get a refund for the apartment?

I think that the worst part of depression is not being interested in anything.

I'm usually INTENSELY interested in things, constantly reading and googling and trying to learn everything I can about everything that's going on.. to go from that to just not caring is a weird feeling. I feel like I'm sitting outside of my brain.

Interview

'De diepe hersengolven die schuilgaan achter dwangmatige handelingen'

"Wat gebeurt er in het brein van iemand met zo’n obsessief-compulsieve stoornis (OCD)? Elektrofysioloog Tara Arbab (39) heeft het voor het eerst ter wereld vastgesteld. Ze vond een duidelijk signaal, diep in de hersenen van elf patiënten, dat kenmerkend is tijdens de dwangmatige handelingen. „Alsof er een netwerk van zenuwcellen is waarin de stroomsignalen niet meer stoppen maar blijven rondgaan in een loop.”

"Dit zijn patiënten met ernstige OCD, zij ‘dwangen’ soms wel zestien uur op een dag en geen enkele behandeling helpt. Als laatste kiezen ze dan voor een hersenoperatie waarbij een neurochirurg twee elektrodes implanteert, diep in hun brein."

"compulsiviteit is een symptoom bij veel psychiatrische stoornissen. Bij verslaving bijvoorbeeld, de tics bij het syndroom van Gilles de la Tourette en eetstoornissen."

"Nu we beter begrijpen wat er neuronaal misgaat bij OCD, kunnen we daar gerichter op ingrijpen."

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/10/de-diepe-hersengolven-die-schuilgaan-achter-dwangmatige-handelingen-a4902509

https://archive.ph/FQM7I

#gezondheid #OCD #ObsessieveCompulsieveStoornis #Dwanghandelingen

"Het bijzondere is: die elektroden kunnen niet alleen elektrische stroompjes geven, ze kunnen die ook meten. Zo kunnen we dus diep in de hersenen van levende mensen meten. "

[no medical opinions]

I had therapy today for the first time in months (regional Australia has a dire shortage of mental health services), and got to talk with her about how I think I have a touch of the depressions.. she agrees.

She also agrees that it might be SAD, or a VitD deficiency, and is glad I had bloods taken yesterday and will be talking to my endo tomorrow about the results. She didn't have anything to say about the possibility of it being a side effect of my spirolonactone, but I'll ask the endo about that as well.

We did talk about the possibility of it being triggered by Greg leaving or other relationship things and both agree it doesn't seem likely. Or that it's latent grief over my dads death in 2019 being triggered by talking my best friend through his dad's illness and impending passing (we also don't think that's it).

She said that I've done all the good things - deleting tiktok, taking a decreased uni load this semester, talking about it.. and that I just need to keep going back to basics (eating, sleeping, exercising, drinking water), to keep things grounded and continue moving forward..

I did notice that, when we were both about to say I have to keep doing "all the good things", she said "good things" and I said "right things" - so we talked a bit about how those actions don't have a moral value or correctness to them, they're just things I can do that are helpful for my body and ways I can be gentle with myself at the moment.

I have such a headache now, though.. It's also been years since I've come out of therapy with a headache, which I think is indicative of how much I don't want to be there and how much I do need to be there.

Being crazy is hard work.

'Neurale biomarkers ontdekt voor obsessieve-compulsieve stoornis (OCD)'

"OCD is een psychiatrische aandoening waarbij mensen last hebben van dwanggedachten (obsessies) en dwanghandelingen (compulsies). Een bekend voorbeeld is smetvrees: iemand is dan voortdurend bang om besmet te raken (de obsessie) en voelt zich gedwongen om steeds opnieuw handen te wassen (de compulsie)."

"De hersenactiviteit van het volledige neurale netwerk werd gemeten tijdens momenten van obsessie, compulsie en opluchting, vergeleken met een basislijn als referentie. In deze metingen zijn verschillende soorten hersengolven zichtbaar, waarbij vooral de alfa- en delta-golven relatief vaak naar voren kwamen."

"“Op termijn kunnen we hopelijk overstappen op een systeem waarbij de elektroden alleen stimuleren wanneer deze een signaal meten dat past bij compulsief gedrag,” zegt Arbab. “Dat zou de behandeling veel gerichter maken.”

https://www.ggznieuws.nl/neurale-biomarkers-ontdekt-voor-obsessieve-compulsieve-stoornis-ocd/

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Has anyone else with #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder and/or #Trichotillomania had success with NAC (N-acetylcysteine) and then had it suddenly stop working for them? Have you tried it again, or found something else that helped?

More context in next toot

This has some interesting stuff on #OCD. Not sure I agree, but it reminds me of some weird events..

When I 1st got fresh miso, there was a deadly tornado! I considered myself a very skeptical person, but couldn't escape the notion that miso caused disasters.

In the 80s. I ate pizza, with mushrooms, & got the flu. So, even knowing about viruses, I thought mushrooms caused the flu.

I did get over those though! I love miso and mushrooms, despite the flu hurricanes. xD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-dy4RXSTEw

I was looking for mental health screening tests that did not require collecting personal data.

Yesterday I found @divested has developed Kairoscope, website with dozens of questionnaires that run solely on your browser, zero data sent to anywhere else.

https://kairoscope.org/

Support Tavi's work here:
https://divested.dev/pages/donate

#OCD #addiction
Compulsive Behaviors | My Strange Addiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylq8xEuYs1g&list=WL&index=2

I wish I could get a little medal every time I forcibly override my OCD and do the Bad aka entirely normal thing for anyone else but something that near paralyses you for much longer than it realistically should, so you have a monumental internal battle just to do the normal thing, perfectly unremarked upon by anyone else in the entire world, and you do it and it's fine but it took so much and now you're exhausted...

Anyway, here's your medal for doing that something:

I've got to stop letting myself do "just a little thing for my mental health"...

Rot in bed all day?
- yes, just a little bed rot for my depression!

Eat nothing but chips all day?
- yes, just 19 little packs of chips as self care!

Ignore uni work and play Salt & Sacrifice all day?
- definitely, it's for my mental health don't ya know!

MY THERAPIST TOLD ME TO BE GENTLE WITH MYSELF AND NOW I'M TURNING INTO A CURSED TRASH GOBLIN WHO HASN'T SEEN SUNLIGHT IN 4 DAYS

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Yes, I know this isn't what she meant

This post is 98.4% Shit Post, and I'm mostly being sensible about all this

Diepe hersenstimulatie is effectief bij mensen met een ernstige therapieresistente OCD. Een aantal wetenschappers hebben daarvoor nieuw bewijs geleverd. Zij vergeleken de behandeling met diepe hersenstimulatie (DBS) met een schijnonderzoek. #ggz #OCD

https://www.ggztotaal.nl/nw-29166-7-4648811/nieuws/hersenstimulatie_helpt_bij_ocd.html?page=1

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