artherra:

smolstiel:

keepingcalmisoverratedgoddamnit:

smallmetal:

dumbpancakebaby:

STOP making posts that say, “If you scroll past this, you have no heart!” or, “You’re a monster if you scroll past this.” As someone with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, this really triggers me and harms me. 

As someone else with OCD I wanna chime into say that posts like “reblog or you’ll have your worst week” or “like and reblog or your mom will die” also really trigger me and directly tie into my obsessions. If you MUST reblog them at least tag them as reblog bait! And stop tagging reblog games as reblog bait instead, tag them as reblog games!!! So people can properly blacklist what they do and don’t wanna see because those are both very different!

What people without OCD don’t understand is that even though we know it’s not real, we take those posts seriously, even the “good” ones like “Reblog money cat for money” or something can seriously fuck with our OCD. It leads to horrible panic attacks and giving into compulsions. If you wanna help us out please PLEASE tag reblog bait of all kinds.

Holy fucking shit is this important or what!! I’m going to do my best to remember to tag like this from now on

can i just chime in that i have hyperempathy as a part of my autism and it makes it really hard to scroll past those “you’re a bad person if you don’t reblog” type things without getting MAJOR anxiety about it.  like even if its good content that deserves to be rb’d, don’t guilt people into it 

I don’t know which disorder is causing my problems with this, but yes, please do not guilt people into reblogging things. It mostly doesn’t even help your post to be noticed – a positive approach is better for everybody, in (almost) every situation. From what I heard, those guilt-based strategies are annoying to people who don’t have any mental problems too.

Surprisingly, nobody likes to be guilted into something.