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I’ve been looking at sites to find some good World War Two red army uniforms and gear, I’ve come across sovietpower.com which I hear has an unreliable reputation when it comes to shipping and all that logistical stuff, but I’ve also come across Sovietmilitarystuff.com which has some nice affordable prices but I haven’t heard of its reputation, so what’s your guys’ advice? Got any better sources? Or how’s Sovietmilitarystuff.com’s stuff? I’ve seen some really enticing stuff on there, but I’m not sure of the vendor’s reliability.

The Deng reforms of china brought a lot of revision and capitalist elements to it, it opened up the “free markets” but still regulated by the government, it gave up the revolutionary internationalism that it once had like supporting armed struggles and international solidarity. Realistically, what should China do?

I want to read German Ideology but it’s like 700 pages long while the CJ Arthur student edition version is 158 pages long. Will I still get a good idea and understanding of the German ideology if I read this version? Or not.

(it’s okay if this first part doesn’t resonate with you, the advice won’t be any less helpful)

If you are going through an OCD crisis or extreme episode you may have forgotten what it’s like to suffer as bad as you are right now, but that’s because you have been doing a hell of a good job fighting it off. 

You’ve probably learned to not give into the thoughts and they have become less severe because of that. but if not, that’s okay 

But break this cycle, no matter how good the times get, keep fighting OCD, don’t give into the compulsions that will keep you trapped;

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DONT LET IT RUIN YOUR DAY

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1. Don’t look at your present moment as a nostalgic memory you will remember in the future. (Especially if you are doing something fun or important like celebrating Christmas or your birthday or etc)

If you get attached with thoughts this way, it will be easier for OCD to corrupt.

You will be sitting there thinking “why the hell am I feeling like shit right now??? I’m supposed to be having a good time!” Or “why am I feeling like this??? I have an important or fun day tomorrow!”

Don’t think of the day you are/will have as an important or memorable day. Just think of it as just another day. Like “oh I’m gonna go bowling with my friends to celebrate graduation, well whatever I’ll go do that, it’s just another day, like yesterday and tomorrow” 

If you think of this important or fun day as just another day, that removes the pressure and urgency that your supposed to have a good time, and it will make it less likely for OCD to ruin your day. 

And you will maybe look back at that day thinking how good of a day it was. Let your future self reminisce about that memory, not your present self. 

^^^^(This one kinda plays into the “live in the present, not the past or the future.” Which is something used and endorsed in both ICBT and ERP therapy for OCD)

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DO NOT FORGET YOU HAVE OCD

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1. This might not be best for long term OCD treatment but this has worked for me pretty fine for lessening the blow. And remember you are in a crisis you need to get out of.

If you are bogged down in intrusive thoughts analyzing the bullshit OCD feeds you, this may hit even harder if you are convinced it’s your own self feeding you this bullshit, 

because you are likely feeling uniquely bad or exceptionally evil because of these thoughts you are having 

Connect yourself with other people who have OCD. 

And no, you don’t need to go on the OCD subreddit hearing other people’s horror stories (especially the ones with the trigger warnings) unless you’re prepared and doing it for ERP therapy and not for reassurance. 

What you can do is if you like to scroll through Instagram reels is to fill your feed with reels about OCD, they are typically less triggering than reading spooky OCD stories on Reddit. 

many of the videos may be informational, informing you about OCD’s tricks and tactics, many of the other ones are people telling their OCD experiences to the general population rather than an OCD echo chamber like the OCD subreddit and YOU may find yourself relating to the videos too, thinking to yourself “huh yeah I forgot OCD can do that, I’ll remember that next time”. 

But do not use this as a compulsion to reassure yourself like a drug addict to get a quick fix of relief, make it natural. 

Don’t seek  them out while you’re in an episode and watching more and more and more of them until you feel like you are relieved. 

What I would do to get them onto your feed is to search the key word OCD and interact with the posts so more pop up in your feed, so they are intertwined with your normal Instagram scrolling sessions. This is probably something good that can come out of your instagram addiction, because it was good for me.

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THE ABSURDITY OF PHYSICAL SENSATIONS

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1. This may be really helpful if you have a health obsession where your really afraid of getting some horrible health condition or some sexual obsession where your afraid of being some sexual deviant monster

 

So if you feel something and your pretty sure that the feeling is strong, like if you had an obsession that there might be a brain tumor on some side of your head, 

so your OCD makes you focus on that side of your head, it’s gonna make the feeling much more stronger, 

it may create some pressure on that side of your head which may feel like a brain tumor or something. 

OCD sufferers with health obsessions know how real OCD can make physical sensations feel.

But one trick that works for me is to divert my Brain’s attention to another part of my body to another part of my body

For example if you are really afraid there might be a brain tumor or rupture inside your brain, and your OCD is focusing on this area, try and put all your brains attention on another part of your brain, when I did this, I felt pressure building up on this area that I started focusing on rather than the other part I was previously focusing on. 

You could even do this with any other body part, I focused on my foot so hard it kinda felt sore, so this kinda shows you that you that your sensations can be as important as how much focus and importance you give it which OCD loves to take advantage of. 

For sexual themes a lot of the obsessions and intrusive thoughts rely on the groinal responses you get. So if you get an intrusive thought or see something and your OCD may try to convince you, that you are attracted to that thing, you might say in your mind

 “What the hell?? What if I am attracted to that? im going to see how my private parts reacted to that” then then you might go “wait what?!  No no no, Why did my private parts react like that??? Does that mean I’m attracted to that?? NOOO!!!” 

You reacted like that because you put your focus on your private parts. Not because you are attracted to anything.

So, try to look at a lamp or maybe a tree or some kind of object around you and while telling your brain to focus on your private parts, your likely going to feel a response from your private parts, it doesn’t mean you are attracted to lamps or trees. 

Now, don’t turn this into a compulsion to reassure yourself every time you get one of these sexual intrusive thoughts, it’s just to do a couple times to show yourself how unreliable and illegitimate these reactions and physical can be be.

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Then again I’m not a psychologist, these are just some things that I as an OCD sufferer have found to help me to greatly reduce my anxiety, and that I think may help others, this advice alone probably won’t help you recover which is why it is important that you should seek therapy from someone who specializes with OCD if you have the means to do so.

If some of the things in this list doesn’t help you or contradict’s your OCD therapist’s advice, you can probably disregard it, but It’s worth a try and I encourage you to take my advice into consideration 

now, it makes sense to me that if anyone were to hypothetically steal from a large corporation that wouldn’t be bad, it’s a bit more questionable if it’s a small business, given that they are much smaller than the mega corporations of the world but then again, the small business owners would probably still be considered petty bourgeois.

But what about a home burglary? To me, in my mind I feel like that comes with a lot more dependable contexts and reasons. Like, for example would it be morally justifiable if someone in poverty were to burglarize someone’s house, if this person is like middle income.

I also see many parallels with this for someone joining the US military, because I’m sure that many of you would agree that it’s morally bad to join the US military regardless of their economic status.

does this go the same way if someone were to break into someone’s house and steal their stuff regardless of economic background? or are there more layers of context to this?