Mastodawn

💖 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

Alexandre Dulaunoy 2d ago

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

The Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & Entertainment 2d ago

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

Thomas Alexander Kolbe 4d ago

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

Dining and Cooking 4d ago

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/

Bitnapper 🏳️‍🌈⁣🇪🇺⁣🦕 ⁣🐈 ⁣6d ago

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

Flaky 6d ago

Any Linux using ADHD peeps, wanna know your experience?

I'm moving back to KDE because I kept overthinking about my Niri set up - while Niri itself is great and the flow definitely helps my ADHD, the whole DIY aspect and its age compared to the others was activating my overthinking whenever I ran into a bug or something that didn't match KDE.

How can you curb that? I'll also pop it in OCD since I think I have it but I'm not bothering to get it checked up because the NHS is shit.

#ADHD #OCD #Linux

The Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & Entertainment Mar 7

'Hidden illness convinced me I was a paedophile - I thought I was a monster'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/hidden-illness-convinced-paedophile-thought-36816530

The Center for EmotionalHealth Mar 5

Join CEH and OCD New Jersey, the NJ affiliate of the International OCD Foundation, for the 26th annual conference on March 22, 2026! CEH will be there!

#ocd #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #newjersey #ocdnj #ocdconference #mentalhealth