HeyJaredThe Weight of Small Things
A softer way to navigate an intense world. Nuanced perspectives for AuDHD brains.
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The three-part structure to my OCD thoughts (opens the original)
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For every OCD thought that’s caught me in sticky thought-spirals and rumination loops, I’ve observed three structural components that help me identify that OCD is running the show.1. Trigger/ObsessionSomething happens that prompts me to me feel some kind of negative emotion(s).A scary thought, image, or worry that pops into my brain that feels distressing in the moment.2. Urge/CompulsionSomething my brain says I *must* do to relieve the negative emotion or worry. Feels like a strong urg
My sticky morning inertia has been OCD rumination the whoooole time. (opens the original)
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Something profound has happened, and I want to document and record and preserve it because it feels momentous and monumental and worth preserving. It feels very much worth the effort of writing down the shape of it so I can press it into my memory, a petaled flower in between the pages of a book.On Tuesday, I went to the gym.It started out like every other day I’ve gone to the gym, particularly on the days I go by myself, without my partner:Should I go to the gym today? I don’t have to. But do I
When OCD demands your silence. (opens the original)
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Recently, I’ve been exploring that I may have OCD alongside my ADHD with my therapist.It’s helped me realize that it felt so hard to write and create the last few months *not* because I am cognitively unable to, as I had thought—The burnout, the trauma, the heavy fogginess that would wash over my brain and body every time I sat down to write.The weeks of wanting and trying and planning and experimenting, trying to feel my way back into creative work, but every time erupting in frustration, despa
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