I find things to distract myself. Mirror. Brush teeth. Brush hair. Mouthwash. Do maintenance stuff to keep mind off things. Trim nails. Do simple exercises. Walk around in a circle muttering new invented languages to yourself. Laugh at the absurdity of yourself. Imagine yourself floating off and coming back and that it’s all normal and ok to come back. Drink water with slow sips. Learn how to lucid dream (there’s lessons out there) so that you can control your own dreams which can help. Learn breathing techniques and use them. Tense and release the muscles in your body starting at your toes and working up to your head, or back to front. Remind yourself that it’s ok to have catostrophic thoughts and that you can watch them pass by in you head if you let them go. Acknowledge them and let them float off.

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In the USA, it’s true if you fit certain other criteria as well. As a very “visual” country, your skin color, your apparent gender, your apparent social class, your “appearance of” wealth gives you more and more freedom. The proliferation of con artists in the USA from the early 1800s through to today that follow the EXACT SAME PATTERNS from tent-revivals, to snake oil salesmen, to televangelists and politicians and marketing alike is a strong demonstration of this as a fact. At some point, you will need money to ‘back it up’ but you can go VERY VERY far on appearance alone — IF you start with the ability to appear a certain way (and just need tailored clothes, hair cut, mannerism changes, certain height and weight and skin tone, teeth, etc)

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TreatMyOCD Yes that sounds very accurate. For example, I have long list of rules in my head that I follow which could be like OCD. But they’re functional and a bit scientific / experiential. But I would try repeated exposure for various concerns but it would be as bad a hundred times later as the 1st. I can spiral down into a bad state and emerge 45 mins later. But that’s biochemicals going overboard and they just need to settle down and do their thing. While going through it I disappear or look in the mirror or brush my teeth – probably a little depersonalization or whatever they call it, need to find grounding / centering or something And it kind of is what it is. I have a very chatty brain but I never had any thoughts that I was Disturbed by, not really. I’d manage the ones that would pull me under, lock them in a box in my Roman room and let them do their thing in there. I’m not my thoughts but they are entertaining and strange. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been diagnosed with at 11, had guided meditation and biofeedback lessons back in the early 80s. It helped and helps. I sympathize with ocd because I occasionally do some of the OCD like things. But that’s not where the center for me is just as chronic worry and anxiety, while debilitating for OCD too isn’t its main thing. (I’m just guessing though). They certainly wobble together in a very similar area though. Ocd gad ADHD-I asd and a few others. Anyway that’s a good writeup you did of some distinctions. All the best!

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Many many children stories are horror They do serve a purpose though When it’s just the right amount of scary, it’s a safe environment to explore various feelings safely. Children after the age of 3.5/4 know the difference between fantasy and reality. Of course adults lie to children so they believe things that aren’t always true but if they know it’s fantasy they know what’s fantasy or reality But there’s limits. There’s been a lot of safe horror on YouTube for the past couple of years that’s actually impressively at the exactly the right range for small children to process. The whole skibidi toilet war between the camera heads and the toilet guys is perfectly fine for 4 to 11 years old – they each get different things out of it. All made by one guy and embraced by generation Alpha like I’ve never seen. The hugy wugy blue creature with all of the teeth is popular on every country for 3 to 7 year olds. I thought it was just my little ne but then I started to see it on all the different YouTube shorts and Instagrams and stuff and it’s worldwide. However, horror made for older teenagers and adults don’t belong in front of kids eyes My oldest niece who’s now in her late 20s I think was exposed to the Leprechaun movie by a babysitter at the age of four We finally had a trip to go to Ireland to go to a wedding – the only overseas trips I’ve made. She was about 9 years old and she loved Ireland but no use for leprechauns whatsoever. She would look away or duck a little when she would saw one in a store window She got over it by the time she was a teenager but still it wasn’t necessary. My sister dropped that babysitter after she found out they were watching leprechaun

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