Mike McCaffreyI am #ObsessiveCompulsive and my heart skipped a few beats, so obviously I will be dying in my sleep tonight. Goodbye everyone.
Replacing the fuse in the Christmas tree lights for the third time, so I can spend an additional week obsessively worrying about the house burning down while my wife blithely enjoys the cheerful holiday lights.
Jesper Agdakx πΈBest Podcast: Clearer Thinking
I actually canβt believe I havenβt recommended Clearer Thinking yet in previous years, given that itβs been consistently one of my most listened-to podcasts for several years now. The topics discussed range from psychology and economics to politics, climate change, AI, philosophy and many more topics. Apart from the excellent guests they manage to find on a weekly basis, the main highlight of the podcast is the host Spencer Greenberg, who always manages to ask unexpected and challenging questions yet always does so with openness and compassion.
Itβs pretty hard to pick a single episode, so I will cheat a bit and recommend a collection of connected conversations about different personality disorders:
- A conversation with a sociopath
- A conversation with a narcissist
- A conversation about borderline disorder
- A conversation with a rigid perfectionist who has OCPD
- A conversation with an autistic person
- A conversation with a person with OCD
Each of these conversations gave me a new understanding and appreciation for the difficulties that people with these disorders live with, all from their own perspective (which is sadly all too rare). I strongly believe that by listening better to each other and showing curiosity rather than judgement, we can prevent a whole lot of damage and suffering, and I cannot think of better examples of that than these episodes.
Previous winners: 80,000 Hours with interview with Audrey Tang (2022), The Way Out Is In with Space, Time, and the Ultimate Dimension (2023), and Dice Exploder with Rule Zero with Ema Acosta (2024).
#BestOf2025 #Podcast #Psychology #ASPD #NPD #BPD #OCPD #Autism #OCD
"If something breaks, fix it. And if you don't have the part improvise. Never throw out a bendy piece of wire. Collect those bendy pieces of wire now, because you may need them."
- #MargaretAtwood (in a direct rebuke to my wife's complaints about my #ADHD / #OCPD junk collections)
Λβ*Β°β’ Papigoe π³οΈβπ π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ³π΄One drawback of having #OCPD and #BPD is that I tend to disengage quite abruptly. It takes VERY little for me tae be convinced that I am irrelevant... Because the monsters what own me scream intae my ears that I am. #MajorDepressiveDisorderRecurrant #Dysthymia #suicidalideations
If you have an #ObsessiveCompulsive personality and a fear of disease, I do not recommend having a rat poop in all of your pots and pans.
The Chaotic Goodπ³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβπI take Wellbutrin, Seroquel, and cannabis. #mentalhealth #majordepressivedisorder #adhd #ocpd #bpd #legalizeweed
Trying to research #OCPD and threat sensitivity. If I'm going to be unable to look away from the monumental dangers that humanity is nonchalantly ambling towards, I might at least know the physiological reasons I am stressed out every minute of the day.