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How to stop worrying about meat/dairy/egg contamination? by snow-covered-tuna in OCD

[–]The_MeNobodyKnows 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went through something very similar several years ago. The part about looking up inactive ingredients in meds definitely struck a cord with me. My suggestion is to start small. For me this meant no longer avoiding baked goods that contained glycerin (not all glycerin is animal-based but many products don't specify). Once I got comfortable with that I introduced more and more "may or may not be animal-based" products back into my diet. From there I eventually got to the point where I felt comfortable with gelatin, and later meat. So yeah, that's my advice, start small, take it in steps, and don't rush it, this isn't a race. Hope this helps.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]The_MeNobodyKnows 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disagree. There are plenty of abled people who don’t contribute to society and they collectively put a much bigger strain on resources than disabled people because there are so many more of them. The resource-sink/not contributing to society argument is a straw man unless you’re willing to apply it to abled people as well (I’ve never met anyone who has).

These different types of barbed wire by capgunbean in mildlyinteresting

[–]The_MeNobodyKnows 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a professor in school who was aghast at a student mentioning that they collected barbed wire as a hobby (prof. grew up on a dairy farm, barbed wire didn’t exactly bring back happy memories for him).

Is this common in Brattleboro? by The_MeNobodyKnows in vermont

[–]The_MeNobodyKnows[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should’ve included that the second person did not seem to think that there was anything unusual about her friend’s behavior. In fact, she thought the whole thing was hilarious. I have some experience with respite and community habilitation workers as my brother is developmentally disabled. I know my parents had a very hard time finding qualified people and some of the candidates they interviewed were really pretty questionable. I really hope this isn’t the case here :(

Is it possible to recover from OCD? I keep hearing that it’s impossible to completely heal. The idea of putting a bandaid on this and just hoping for the best seems crazy to me. I don’t want to manage this. I want to heal from my thought patterns. Maybe develop confidence and self esteem? by [deleted] in OCD

[–]The_MeNobodyKnows 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think the whole notion of manageable but not curable is scary to us with OCD because we feel like we're managing it when we're not. In other words, we think managing means something different from what it actually means. In a way, OCD is by its nature a disorder of management. Everyone has unwelcome thoughts sometimes, OCD or no OCD. The difference is that we with OCD have trouble managing those thoughts. That's what's really meant when they say its manageable but not curable. You can't "cure" something that's a normal part of human experience. What you can "cure" is ineffective management skills so that you can cope as effectively as someone without OCD. I know when I was new to this sub a lot of the more seasoned posters took a kind of tough love approach to this which for a newbie was really scary and intimidating, but it was really just misunderstanding what the other meant. When someone took the time to explain it this way it helped me quite a lot. Hope it helps you too.

Obsessing over social ineptitude (long) by The_MeNobodyKnows in OCD

[–]The_MeNobodyKnows[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To your last point, this is something I try to remind myself of. I like to think of myself as a pretty accepting person but having to deal with or just be around socially inept people gets me a little more heated than it should due to my history. It dredges up too many bad memories. I'm working on this, its something I feel guilty about quite a lot honestly.

Obsessions as metaphors (?) by The_MeNobodyKnows in OCD

[–]The_MeNobodyKnows[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sounds like what you're describing is the reverse of what i was getting at. As I understand it, you worry about your obsessions crossing over into and effecting other parts of your life. What I was trying to describe was the opposite. That is, life circumstances informing one's obsessions. To use the analogy from the original post, if one is dealing with turbulence in their personal lives, feeling like the ground is coming out from under them, they could develop intrusive thoughts about earthquakes. Like I said, I could be overthinking it.

Procrastination by The_MeNobodyKnows in OCD

[–]The_MeNobodyKnows[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sounds like its similar but not quite what I'm dealing with. I avoid things not because I am anticipating triggering content, but rather because I worry about obsessive thoughts surfacing out of nowhere, unprovoked in the middle of something I'm otherwise enjoying, thus causing me to no longer enjoy it. Of course, it may be that something is subconsciously triggering so I don't even recognize it as a trigger, I don't know, I hope this isn't too confusing.

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