On OCD and not looking away
I've been thinking a lot recently about how exposure to horrible events in real life might affect people with OCD. Not a day goes by at the moment when I'm not focused on the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people. I don't want to take my eyes away from this. I don't want to be quiet about it on social media or just focus on the things in my life that I can control. A livestreamed genocide is something that affects every decent human being everywhere in the world. The fact that the government of my country has actively supported Israel's war crimes makes this feel even more urgent for me. Of course I wonder if thinking and reading and tweeting about the worst crimes imaginable, perpetrated by Israel on a daily basis, will make me more prone to OCD episodes. I don't know if there's a correlation between frequency of OCD obsessions and daily attention to troubling and awful world events. But it's certainly something that's been occupying my thoug...