It’s common for mainstream culture – with its lack of diverse faces, identities, and bodies – to influence people to develop obsessive thinking about diet and exercise. We see celebrities over the decades morph their bodies with plastic surgery and high-end, expensive diets and workout plans that the average person only dreams of affording. Visibility, however, is most often given to cisgender, heterosexual people who can fit the ideal: so where is the LGBTQ+ community in all of this?

Individuals with a history of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), unhealthy attachments, or obsessive/ perfectionistic thinking, may find themselves in a specific and often misunderstood subtype of OCD: Relationship OCD, or R-OCD.

Every year, millions of people in the United States celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride. June has been dubbed Pride Month, in honor of the LGBTQ+ history made this time of year, starting with the Stonewall Riots in 1969. Despite Pride Month itself being relatively new in the grand scheme of things, LGBTQ+ people have always existed, even if not in the specific names we denote to members of the community today.

It’s common for many neurodivergent folk that come to therapy to express some sort of dissatisfaction with how they move in the world. Many individuals express their lack of ability to “keep up” with all the tasks required of them every day, unable to start or plan out tasks enough to complete them.

Despite knowing something was “up” for years, that I was different in some way from a lot of my peers, I didn’t fully come out as a non-binary, transgender person until after high school.

In my early 20s, I had an idea that the year ahead would be me “finally getting my mental health in order” – whatever that meant.

Join Alice as they explore the impact of purity culture on identity and sexuality.