I also feel the slightest hangnail or dust mote or food stuck to my fingers or hands or hairs on my arms or legs or anywhere and start picking at moles or skin tags If I start cleaning the house... that's good. But then I sit back down and pick at my (dirty?)nails again. Anyway, #OCD

Spent the night at Insomni'hack and had a blast — huge thanks to the organisers for putting together such a great event. Awesome challs and a seriously solid setup. @1ns0mn1h4ck

#insomnihack #insomnihack2026 #CTF #OCD #OrangeCyberDefense #CTFTime

One day I will stop constantly nudging spaces below paragraphs and bullet points by 1pt when writing proposals and slides. Today is not that day. #OCD #vismaviedescientifique

Listening to Kimberley talk about how OCD can change and trick your brain over time on a new episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit #anxiety #mentalHealth #ocd #podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-anxiety-toolkit/id1098792502?i=1000755946765

477 When Your OCD Brain Tricks You

Podcast Episode · Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression · March 18 · 35m

Apple Podcasts
💖 hi! i'm self hosting a gotosocial instance now, and this is my new primary account! please boost to help me federate this instance more!!

about me: i love people, and i especially love the people in my local community. some of my goals in life are getting my own wiki page (im vain), building a housing cooperative, and being the best woman i can possibly be for my partner. i love being intentional with my aesthetic, which has evolved over the years into the pink & black combo i do now. 🖤💖

i have been on some form of mastodon since 2022. i believe we all need to do as much as possible to boycott companies that do or support unethical things, like donating to fascists. for me, using the fediverse is a great alternative to corporate social media.
still, i really value my time - so my following list is very small and i do not spend large amounts of time here. i try to spend my time doing productive things - lots of which are related to @vs - or connecting with the people i love.

on this account you can expect to see lots of random thoughts, some questions, polls, photos (including some cw'd lewds), ventposts, and general nonsense. thanks for following me! 💖

#intropost #introduction #trans #transjoy #Minnesota #vegan #coop #homeschool #anarchy #anarchist #ocd #audhd #fedora #linux #foss #selfhosting #grapheneos

I just updated the introduction of the Open Contributions Descriptor (OCD):

https://ossbase.org/initiatives/open-contributions-descriptor/

OCD is an open, machine-readable JSON format that lets organizations publish a single, structured description of how they contribute to the open ecosystem.

#opensource #ocd #opendata #wellknown

Leonardo DiCaprio's hidden health battle and how it impacted his acting career

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/leonardo-dicaprios-hidden-health-battle-36862126

That music can serve more than purely aesthetic or entertainment purposes is no longer a surprising idea. Across many cultures and historical periods, music has functioned as a means of regulating mood, attention, and bodily states. Over the past decades, clinical research has begun to examine these effects with greater methodological care. Within psychiatry and psychology, music-based interventions now appear in studies addressing anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and related conditions.

Structured musical interventions - such as guided listening, improvisation-based music therapy, or therapist-led sessions - can reduce obsessive symptoms, lower anxiety, and ease depressive comorbidity when used alongside established forms of treatment. Controlled studies report measurable improvements in anxiety and obsessive symptoms when music therapy accompanies standard care. At the same time, sample sizes remain limited, and further research is required.

Music also relates to cognitive and emotional mechanisms that are relevant to OCD. Studies indicate that individuals with obsessive-compulsive personality traits often show heightened sensitivity to musical tension and a strong preference for harmonic resolution. These observations suggest links between musical structure, predictive processing in the brain, and the regulation of intrusive thoughts.

The intersection of neuroscience, psychology, and musical practice therefore forms a productive field of investigation. Musical processes operate simultaneously on several levels: rhythm can synchronize breathing and autonomic activity, tonal expectation structures attention, and deep musical immersion alters the subjective experience of time as well as aspects of cognitive control. These characteristics make music a complex medium within therapeutic contexts.

I examined these questions in greater detail last year, focusing on anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive conditions, the current evidence base, and practical forms of music-based interventions in clinical settings.

Read the full essay:
https://tomkolbe.com/2025/08/25/music-based-interventions-for-anxiety-obsessive-compulsive-and-related-disorders-effects-applications-and-evidence/

#MusicTherapy #MusicAndMentalHealth #Neuroscience #Psychology #OCD #AnxietyResearch #MusicAndTheBrain #MusicResearch #MusicAndHealth

Music-Based Interventions for Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders: Effects, Applications, and Evidence – Thomas Alexander Kolbe

Music is more than entertainment. In clinical and non-clinical work with anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, trauma- and stressor-related, and somatic symptom disord

Thomas Alexander Kolbe

How genetics, environment and access to food shape eating disorders

How genetics, environment and access to food shape eating disorders Researchers say genetics, environment and access to foo…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #anorexia #ARFID #BostonUniversity #BroadInstitute #eatingdisorders #foodinsecurity #geneticsresearch #Mentalhealth #nutrition #ocd #recovery #TropicalFoodsBoston
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2552393/how-genetics-environment-and-access-to-food-shape-eating-disorders/

Hörspiele zum Laufen sind eine tolle Sache aber sowas triggert mein #OCD ; #hörspiel