u/sirferreira

EDIT: Sorry for the post title having a harsh word (CRAP), unfortunately, I cannot change it to something better...

Hi, I find it funny the adoption of solipsism as a personal belief. This doesn't look right, and here is why:

1. Solipsism has never been proven; that means solipsism is just a thought / idea, among countless other equally compelling ideas about reality (and many others are more appealing).
2. By adopting solipsism as a belief, you are taking an unproven idea and giving all the power to this idea, effectively making it your boss, so that you are basing your entire life on this unproven idea and possibly creating a lot of suffering for yourself.
3. Solipsism or not, reality still works under cause and effect; if you hurt other people, you can go to jail, feel guilty, undermine your own happiness, etc. The fact is that you are completely a slave of cause and effect, and thus, you have to respect this fact. Because 'you' are not in control of cause and effect, and because your well-being is completely dependent on 'others', be they real or not, then in practice you are not in a superior ontological position relative to other people, so you have to work with them in a constructive manner.
4. What we want is to be happy, independent of what reality is or is not. And there are ways to cultivate happiness. This is a fact. If you are sane and happy and satisfied with just being, why would you give a rat's ass about 'figuring out' what reality really is?

EDIT: I'm only writing this because I'm seeing a lot of people mentally disturbed by solipsism, so I think it's important to challenge this idea. If solipsism is making you happy and it's making the other 'illusory' people in your reality happy, then maybe this post is not for you.

1. Fact: You can't prove solipsism to be true, so your belief in it is just this, a BELIEF, a THOUGHT, why make a THOUGHT your BOSS??.
2. Fact: You don't have the logical capacity to fathom reality so why even BOTHER??
3. Fact: You are conscious, so consciousness exists
4. Fact: consciousness can be happy, and there are ways to cultivate happiness, so why not to focus on that?? People who are happy do not give a shit about 'figuring out' reality.

Some comments on "fusing" with OCD and self hate:

I've been seeing lots of people who mistakenly identify with their OCD and develop self hate, thinking that OCD is coming form their "core being" or that having intrusive thoughts/compulsions means their core values are invalidated or impaired.

They do not understand (or accept) that OCD is a disease coming from subconscious causes that are NOT under conscious control, and because of this, one cannot claim OCD to be 'me'. Identifying with OCD is exactly the same as identifying with a flu and saying the flu is "me", "I am this flu".

I hope people realize this mistake because if you understand this there will be no basis for self-hatred from OCD.

Hello I suffered a lot in the past from intrusive and forbidden thoughts OCD. After hard work I've managed to get remission and now it's more than a year in remission and working my way hopefully to full remission I don't fear ocd any more. No medication for ocd. So recovery is possible.

There were lots of things that helped me, maybe I'll share every now and then more stuff. But I'd like to start by saying that one of the most powerful things I've worked on is cognitive defusion, this is a death blow to my ocd. I've learned cognitive defusion by meditation but it is also part of ACT therapy. I'm wishing everyone finds the right tools to treat their OCD too.