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Jess Percival 🧚‍♀️˖°𓇼

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🌱embracing life's ups and downs
🫶 neurodivergence + mental health + real life
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ADHD isn’t an adjective for being a bit forgetful or a bit messy

it’s losing time you can’t account for
carrying guilt for things you never actually chose to do,
watching relationships quietly slip away because consistency doesn’t come naturally to your brain

none of that is a personality trait
it’s a disability that gets minimised constantly by people who’ve never had to live inside a brain that works like this

if you read any of these and felt caught out, you’re not broken, and you’re not alone in it🫶

#adhd #adhdawarenessmonth #neurodivergence by @jessperci

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OCD doesn’t just look like handwashing and checking locks

for a lot of people it’s the thoughts you’d never say out loud, the ones that feel too disgusting, too dangerous, or too shameful to admit even exist👀

those thoughts aren’t a reflection of who you are. the fact that they horrify you is the whole point!!

OCD targets exactly what you’d NEVER want to do

if you’ve spiralled over a thought like this and never told anyone, you’re not as alone in it as it feels🫶

#ocdawareness #intrusivethoughts #pocd #harmocd #realocd by @jessperci

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if brushing your teeth feels harder than it should, this is for you🩷

sometimes it’s not about motivation, it’s just about making things easier. it’s one of those small things that can feel way bigger than it should

so this is just ways to make it feel a bit less heavy

just do what you can. something is always better than nothing 🪥

follow @jessperci for more 🫶

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#mentalillness #neurodivergence #adhd #depression by @jessperci

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#ptsd #trauma #survivor #cptsd #childhoodtrauma by @jessperci

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it sucksss

#adhd #burnout #adhdburnout #neurodivergent by @jessperci

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i will never understand how some ppl will fully understand a concept and suddenly stop when they feel uncomfortable

#pureocd #pocd #ocd #childhoodtrauma #cptsd by @jessperci

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I’m not perfect at any of it, I’m just still trying🫶

makeup and pics by @olivia__.love 🩷 by @jessperci

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ADHD doesn’t switch off just because you’re trying to be present with someone.

it can show up in the moments you least expect it, and it doesn’t mean you don’t want to be there, it means your brain works differently.

you’re not the only one who’s felt this and thought something was wrong with you🩷

the goal isn’t to force yourself to be “normal” about it, it’s figuring out what actually works for your brain, without beating yourself up for needing something different in the first place🫶

everyone deserves to actually enjoy intimacy, ADHD brain and all

#adhd #neurodivergence #adhdinwomen by @jessperci

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whether you want to admit it or not, childhood grooming doesn’t end when the situation does. it rewires how you see love, safety, and your own boundaries for years afterward often in ways you don’t clock until you’re an adult looking back

if you’re seeing yourself in this, that’s not you being dramatic. that’s your body finally being safe enough to process it🫶

you’re allowed to take up space with this. you’re allowed to grieve it slowly. you’re allowed to still be figuring out what it even was🩷

#childhoodtrauma #groomingawareness #innerchildhealing #traumarecovery by @jessperci

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5 OCD experiences i didn’t know were OCD 🩷

OCD gets reduced to being tidy and checking locks. but for a lot of people it looks nothing like that

✨so what’s the difference between a random thought, and OCD?

- almost everyone gets intrusive thoughts. most people notice them, think “that was weird” and move on.
- anxiety usually worries about real life stuff like money, work or health and it shifts as life changes

✨with OCD, the thought sticks. it feels dangerous and it feels like it says something about who you are.

so you try to neutralise it by checking, reviewing, googling, confessing, asking for reassurance or avoiding things. that gives you relief for a few minutes, and then the doubt comes back louder

it’s not the thought itself that makes it OCD. intrusive thoughts are content neutral, it’s the stuck feeling, the compulsions, the way it takes over, that separates it

pure OCD, harm OCD, and moral OCD are subtypes that often go undiagnosed for years because they don’t match the stereotype

if you saw yourself in any of these, you’re not weird, dramatic or broken. you just have a brain that got stuck in a pattern it didn’t ask for 🩷

#ocd #pocd #pureocd #intrusivethoughts by @jessperci

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5 things i haven’t achieved at 24 that used to make me feel behind 🩷

a lot of my energy has gone into things nobody can see. figuring out my brain, understanding why i work the way i do, healing things that needed healing first. that’s full time work. it just doesn’t come with a salary or a milestone people can congratulate you on🫶

#adhd #neurodivergence #mentalillness by @jessperci

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i hate how people misuse words that actually mean something to people who live with them 😤

‘i’m so ADHD’ isn’t the same as having your body refuse to do something your mind is begging it to

ADHD is a disability. it affects executive function, emotional regulation, time perception, the ability to do basic tasks etc NOT just focus

when it gets used causualky it becomes harder for the people who actually live with it to be taken seriously, get diagnosed, and access support.

if this is your reality, you are not dramatic. you are not making it up. your brain works differently and that deserves to be understood, not used as an adjective 🫶

#adhd #neurodivergent #neurodivergence by @jessperci

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