“intrusive thought” gets thrown around by assholes talking about putting strainers on their heads or stepping on a leaf who in the next sentence will say “if your thoughts are about actually hurting people they should put you in a psych ward”. compulsions and rituals get seen as proof you’re “crazy”. ocd insight CAN be delusional, even. pocd and sexual ocd is especially demonized, though even something as “harmless” (to others. not *us*) as contamination OCD is still mocked, belittled, and seen as a sign something is fundamentally wrong with you. I have seen people twice my age advocate for violence against anyone who thinks the way I’ve been forced by my mental illness to think since i was 6, maybe 7 years old.
OCD is not destigmatized.
Adding to this some site-specific things:
1. The stupid, stupid trend of people deciding intrusive thoughts about bigotry mean you are a bigot and hence a bad person. People on this site cannot fucking function without using what they imagine peoples’ thoughts to be as a way of determining their values and character.
2. If OCD is destigmatized why are there shitheads on here who have stuff like DNIs with the “wrong” kind of intrusive thoughts in them, including “mental health” blogs?
3. Why do people treat thoughts and actions as comparably harmful? Why do people act like a stranger on the other side of a screen experiencing something internally could hurt them in literally any way?
People are only OK with us if we never acknowledge that we’re suffering or seek/share help in a public way, they’re only OK with us if we never show symptoms or “let” it interfere with us. The only non-stigmatized way to have OCD is to not have OCD.
[ID: Tweets from Emily ‘Soup Lesbian’ Gwen (@theemilygwen) on twitter with the following text:
Well, just left a job interview crying because the hiring manager told me they liked my application but were disappointed that I didn’t bother dressing appropriately. I tried to explain that I haven’t been able to afford new clothes in years but I just couldn’t handle it.
That comment and my reaction was one of the most mortifying moments of my life. I thought I put together a decent outfit for the job with what I had, and hearing her say that just destroyed me.
Anyway I’m still looking for work and struggling a lot. Even $5 would help pay for a meal. ko-fi.com/emilygwen
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being able to go to work with hickeys and bite marks on your neck is a human right.
the bosses are allowed creampie while the workers are punished for a simple little hickey. in this essay i will examine sexual politics through the lens of Marxian analysi-
