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OCD.1 - intro to “responsibility OCD” and how to fight it. 🌚

OCD.1 - intro to “responsibility OCD” and how to fight it. 🌚

First memories of it. Clarifying Terms. How to fight back. Me and Ol Martin Luther. Existential Pain over Diving Boards

Apr 04, 2025
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0.) I have this strange memory…

Of sneaking up on a bird.

Stomping it and killing it instantly.

Grass was green. Sun was out. the Bird resting between two pines.

I couldn’t have been older that 8 or 9 years old. Alone.

I can’t tell you to this day whether this actually happened. I dont know.

How odd.

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