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u/fiahhawt 1d ago
Take your meds to quiet the demons or just raw dog life with a severe mental illness
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u/aflockofmagpies 1d ago
Spoilers! raw dogging life with a severe mental illness usually ends up in addiction
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u/Cerythria 1d ago
I didn't get addicted to anything but I don't need an addiction to be miserable :)
(I'm not against medication though, it just doesn't work on me sadly)
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u/Feminiwitch 19h ago
Yeah, imagine living in a place where the pills you need are illegal. Yeah, I'm medicated for one of my disorders and completely rawdogging the other. It's an interesting experience (it isn't).
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u/GarumSilphium 1d ago
ah, the illusion of choice! you end up addicted both ways, then?
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u/aflockofmagpies 1d ago
I guess so isn't life fun! I'd say no but then I remember that if the VA is late on one of my scripts I go through weird withdrawals and it's a mental health one.
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u/metrometric 2h ago edited 2h ago
No, because 1) adequate treatment for severe mental illness often includes things other than just drugs, like therapy, and 2) taking a prescribed medication as directed by medical professionals is not the same thing as addiction. Unless you also think diabetics are "addicted" to insulin or people with high cholesterol are "addicted" to atorvastatin.
As someone who takes a stimulant every day so that my brain can function properly, I've seen the "controlled meds can be abused ergo taking them is addiction" idea do a lot to dissuade people from seeking treatment that could dramatically improve their health. :/
(Also, the idea of an addiction to SSRIs is really funny.)
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u/Sehvekah Behold ๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ ๐น๐๐ธ๐. Yes, it's on fire. 1d ago
Or self medicate to pick which demons you wanna just chill with.
Edit: I should point out, this is intended purely in jest, do not recommend.
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u/LaVieLaMort My math teacher called me average. How mean. 1d ago
Well, if I raw dogged my mental illness I would already be dead lol
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u/Mistr_man 1d ago
78% of sand is fish shit! Hes not lying!!!!
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u/TesseractToo For science, you monster 1d ago
I always thought that was dumb because it goes through the digestive system but it's not digested organic matter so it's not really shit
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u/wozattacks 1d ago
Yeah itโs like when people say amniotic fluid is pee. Like yeah the fetus drinks it and pees it out but it doesnโt have the waste products that make pee, pee.ย
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u/Mistr_man 22h ago
I dont care its coming out of the fishes butthole its gross and I definitely would freak out if I spent more than 5 seconds thinking about it.
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u/redditor329845 1d ago
Why do you assume the Bluesky poster is a โheโ?
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u/CB_I_Hate_Usernames 1d ago
Yeah all we know is itโs a cat whoโs got a nice hat. Could be girl cat or boy cat or enby!
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u/LauraTFem 1d ago
Thin film seems like an underestimation. Much of the shit is visible!
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u/Sehvekah Behold ๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ ๐น๐๐ธ๐. Yes, it's on fire. 1d ago
Televised live, even.
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u/cheezie_toastie 1d ago
Is this supposed to be true or make sense? I have no idea what's going on here.
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u/AnonymousSlut42069 1d ago
If you had contamination OCD you would understand immediately lol
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u/FailurelsData 1d ago
Can you imagine not knowing what norovirus is? Like it taking up zero space in your brain
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u/edmundshaftesbury 1d ago
Half the cells n your โbodyโ arenโt even you. Hella bacteria virus parasite etc.
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u/FailurelsData 1d ago edited 22h ago
I know. And they control your gut and that controls your serotonin. sometimes I don't think I'm even a person but a hive mind of bacteria
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u/decidedlyindecisive 1d ago
I know what it is, it just takes up very little space in my brain. I just wash my hands when convenient and try not to put my fingers on my mouth or on my face unless I've washed them. Skin is a great barrier and your immune system can generally handle the rest.
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u/mountainhymn 1d ago
amazing good for you, seems like you donโt have ocd, which is the whole fucking point of this post
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u/decidedlyindecisive 1d ago
That's not the comment I replied to though. The comment was "imagine not knowing what norovirus is"
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u/lawn-mumps 1d ago
I canโt imagine rawdogging a bathroom handle knowing how few people waste their hands ๐คข
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u/BrerChicken 1d ago
Is this supposed to be true or make sense? I have no idea what's going on here.
I mean, we live in a cloud of bacteria. And as someone with bipolarity who fortunately does NOT have to take an antipsychotic, I understand the irony of being told you're crazy because you're disgusted by a disgusting world.
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u/ProbablyNotPoisonous 1d ago
Yeah, but that's why we have immune systems. The vast majority of infectious agents get stopped at the door.
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u/notashroom 1d ago
We are ecosystems, largely comprised of bacteria. There are more bacteria in you than there are people on earth. Some of our bacteria are essential to fighting off the baddies.
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u/BrerChicken 1d ago
The cloud of bacteria is not actually the most disgusting part of living as a human. It's the fucking degeneracy and the depravity and the glorification of violence, things like that.
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u/PeachyBaleen 1d ago
Idc about the poop thing but this often stops me in my tracks as I go about my day. How am I supposed to pretend to be ok when every thing is corruption and sexual violence and genocideย
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u/GarumSilphium 1d ago
people in my country (Netherlands) do not believe in hand washing, so bacteria comes right in
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u/jalapeno442 1d ago
What in the world? Are you joking or is this real lol
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u/GarumSilphium 2h ago
the netherlands is the country that washes their hands the least in Europe. It is common that small social WCs in houses to not even have sinks
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u/cheezie_toastie 1d ago
I admit that there are a lot of truths, biological, social, and otherwise, that I force myself to ignore or else someone will force me to take anti psychotics too.
Dang, maybe I do understand the tweet.
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u/Sehvekah Behold ๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ ๐น๐๐ธ๐. Yes, it's on fire. 1d ago
Or like being on disability for Autism, and one of the diagnostic criteria is "A strong and/or unyielding sense of fairness/justice", and being able to put 2 and 2 together.
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u/Troldkvinde 23h ago
I also have no idea how it's relevant to the sub
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u/cheezie_toastie 21h ago
I think there's a lot of overlap between feminists, Reddit users, and neurodivergent folks for whom this post makes a lot of sense.
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u/XhaLaLa I wanna make a joke about sodium, but Na.. 1d ago
Itโs supposed to be reflective of the experience if someone with contamination OCD, but also it is (approximately) true as well! Fecal bacteria is all around us, and youโre probably in contact with some fecal bacteria that didnโt originate in your body right now. Most of the time itโs not harmful though, just life :]
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u/cheezie_toastie 21h ago
Thank you for explaining! I don't know much about OCD so I appreciate learning more.
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u/deciding_snooze_oils 13m ago
One of the many things I try really hard not to think about, like the number of arthropods living on and in my skin at any given time
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u/TesseractToo For science, you monster 1d ago edited 1d ago
So are you agreeing with the OOP? Or teasing them for being delusional or oversensitive of something? (Not saying they are, just I'm trying to parse what the image is meant to be saying in a repost)
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u/FailurelsData 1d ago
i thought fr meant for real
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u/TesseractToo For science, you monster 1d ago edited 1d ago
This person is referring to OCD which is a psychological condition that is about having a delusion
I don't see then say fr though anywhere and even if they did I wouldn't take it literally
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u/Pug_Defender 1d ago
the tweet quality on bluesky still looking rough ๐ญ๐ญ
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u/Fragrantmustelid 23h ago
Not assuming this person is from the U.S, just want to throw it out there that according to Google, infectious diseases account for just 5% of deaths in the U.S.
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u/Petra-fied not in my sex-positive christian minecraft server 1d ago
Sounds like a you problem, buddy
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u/Polybrene 1h ago
Thank God I don't have contamination OCD.
I just have harm OCD with themes like limnic eruptions, or bridge collapse.
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u/Saltycook 20h ago
At least this isn't "hahha. I need everything wiped down and in order that's just my OCD." No bitch, you're maybe a little anal retentive. You don't feel like you're going to die if you make sure three times you've locked the front door. I hate people claiming they have OCD for things they don't actually care about that much when no one is looking.
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u/pinknoisechick 10h ago
I had a psychiatrist one time, I asked about meds for my OCD, and she told me the problem was that I had smoked weed (three years prior), and that if I quit, I'd be fine. She said I was just anxious and I'd be fine if I quit worrying so much.
And like, sure, technically if i could just not worry I wouldn't be worried. But lady, I'm telling you I haven't slept more than a few minutes at a tie in 5 nights, because I'm certain that if I don't check on my kids rightnow (every 8 minutes), they'll die. We aren't talking about being a clean freak, or a little neurotic; this is impacting my ability to care for my children and myself.
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u/BaylisAscaris 1d ago
My wife has contamination OCD and I used to work in a microbiology lab with dangerous microbes. I know I'm not supposed to encourage her or "help" but I get it and I agree with her feelings. I think one of the reasons we work together is she can trust me to not be gross in certain ways, so our home is a safe zone, and so am I unless I warn her.