Perfectionism & Purity
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation
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The Trauma Response to OCD
A lot of people that I know who had trauma as children are very perfectionistic or trauma, you know, as adults. But it's a safety mechanism to make sure that you're not in danger. To control everything, right? Yeah. If I'm the best or if I don't make any mistakes, then I can control what happens to me. And then when I don't live up to that insane standard, I start to get obsessive about it. It seems like a trauma response. Like, my dream is to give Donald Trump DMT and just watch his entire psyche dissolve into nothing. What would he become? Just become.
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