I usually try to read paragrph by paragraph and sumarise it. If i cant, I go sentence by sentence.
It's long and tedious, but at least you get out of it actually understanding something.
Another tip it that usually essais will be structured by having a thesis, a certain number of arguments for a thesis, and then a certain number of explanations for each arguments. Figuring out which part is which helps with comprehension, but also not missing the forest for the trees.
I tried non medical intervention, but it didn't work, so they put me on prozac and it worked like a charm!
that said, still try the non medical solutions, because even if it doesn't work for your ocd, it might still work for other stuff and reduce your stress overall
What makes me even more cynical is the amount of those clippy "protestors" i saw under a video of a guy making a mix network, calling it a "new internet" and ending up just having ai generated specs.
it's close, but what your observation actually shows is their hypocrisy.
most transphobia is caused by bioessentialism. people think that there's something "inate" to you assigned gender/sex at birth. to them, that makes them special and fitting of a certain role.
when you tell people that you can change genders, they freak out, because that means that the traits they think they have isn't inherent to their gender at birth (being assigned a man at birth doesn't make you manly inherently).
this is why when you see a lot of terfs, for example, justifying why trans women aren't women, they use things like the ability to give birth, having to take care of the household, primary/secondary sexual characteristics to justify themselves. they cling to the idea that afab people have something inherent that amab people don't, so that they feel like they have those traits, and that it makes them better.
Taking the example of a cis man that has feminine features and that hides it, because they feel insecure and need to prove their masculinity. There is nothing wrong with that, admit that you don't lie to yourself, by saying that your "inherent masculinity" gives you more masculine traits that someone who's afab could never have.
TLDR: people who are insecure about their gender prop themselves up by attaching themselves to inherent traits that they think others could never have. anything that goes against that breaks their mind.
Mb gang I'll ask my doctor to remove some