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If you want to know what it’s like having OCD, imagine you’re wearing headphones that play a loop of your most disturbing fears. Most of the time, its quiet enough

The “therapy is cool” to “therapy is cool but expensive” to “therapy CAN be life changing with a GOOD therapist, but is widely inaccessible” to “therapy can be life changing

“My room gets messy when I’m overwhelmed” and “my messy room makes me overwhelmed” is a vicious cycle And that’s on executive dysfunction Also shoutout to everyone who lets their

I don’t know a ton about borderline personality disorder but everything I’ve heard sounds so difficult. People with BPD genuinely must be some of the strongest people on the planet.

You can’t tell me anything about my executive function that I don’t already know. I know my room is a mess. I know I need to shower more frequently. I’m

Does anyone else REALLY struggle with brushing their teeth? And I mean REALLY struggle. Like, I will do ANYTHING to put off brushing my teeth. It feels so effortful and

ADHD is still incredibly misunderstood. I went 19 years undiagnosed with ADHD even though in hindsight, the signs were glaringly obvious. This is a thread of those signs: I struggled

ADHD is incredibly misunderstood in girls, women and nonbinary people. I went 19 years undiagnosed even though in hindsight, the signs were glaringly obvious. This is a thread of those

Thread of some good resources for people with OCD! Think you have OCD? You can take this free YBOCS diagnostic test: https://iocdf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Assessment-Tools.pdf Let me know if you have questions

Due to misrepresentation and common misunderstanding, people with telltale signs of OCD often go decades undiagnosed and untreated. This is a thread of underrepresented types of OCD for anyone who

OCD is horribly misrepresented in the media. Emma Pillsbury, Monica Geller, and Adrian Monk are depictions of stereotypical OCD behaviors rather than representations of actual people with OCD. So here’s

Hot take!!! Students with disabilities should not have to ‘be our own advocates’ in order to get accommodations!!! We should just get them!!! And teachers should just honor them!!!!!!! Like,,,