u/35_millimeters

i apologize for posting 2 questions so close to one another but i just want to get perspective from other people with ocd (mine is moral but any is welcome) and any advice they may have on how to help the people around them and also keep themselves stable and not suicidal under capitalism. it can be especially hard when everything you do feels like a moral conviction of being some evil bourgeois and like you can't live without participating in society, thus tainting your morality. leftist circles definetly do not help because everything anyone says nowadays sounds like a declaration of moral failure for doing anything but they're kind of necessary to be around to build community and make real change. anyone without ocd is also allowed to give any advice if they have. thank you so much

maybe im wondering this because of my personal mental health but it feels like when people talk about wanting a revolution its more of a metatheatrical thing than actually confronting the consequences of fighting against one of the most militarized countries in the world. if we want to have real change a lot of people have to risk themselves, right? and i think you have to be okay with personal loss to care about the people in the future. i just dont get how people can not be depressed at least to an extent seeing the world we live in and the apathy and hatred conditioned into almost everyone knowing the only way to fix it is large scale action that is dangerous. im only a teenager so im kind of limited in my scope of ability to do things but i think there's too much of a fear of danger from both teenagers and adults in leftist spaces.

please correct me if im wrong about anything im always still learning and again im pretty young and depressed so that may be clouding my judgement and i kind of sound like a misanthrope in this but im not i swear. it just feels like people are too scared to risk getting hurt to further their ideas and i wanna know if thats like an interpersonal thing or a more systemic one