Jake Shane’s Hyperfixation on Pop Stars Helped Him Discover Consolation Amid OCD

• Jake Shane appeared on The Squeeze podcast on Oct. 16 and opened up about his love for pop stars like Taylor Swift and Woman Gaga
• Shane revealed that he was formally identified with OCD when he was 21 years outdated
• He shared that his hyperfixation on pop stars helped him discover “consolation”

Jake Shane is opening up about his OCD prognosis and the way his “hyperfixation” on pop stars helped him discover consolation.

Throughout an interview on The Squeeze podcast on Oct. 16, the 24-year-old TikTok creator shared that he was formally identified with OCD at 21 years outdated however struggled with it all through his life.

“When you will have OCD, you hyper-fixate on issues,” he defined. “For instance, once I was in sixth grade, I hyper-fixated on shampoos. I used to be clinically hooked on shampoo and I might check out all of the completely different shampoos and line them up prefer it was like an entire to do.”

Throughout the podcast, Shane additionally referenced an article he wrote for Highsnobiety again in Could, the place he talked about hyper-fixating on pop stars like Woman Gaga, Lorde, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift and turning into “entranced of their world.”

“One thing about feminine pop stars made the world go quiet. (Hyperfixation, a symptom of OCD itself, was in actual fact my solely consolation),” he wrote on the time. “My OCD wasn’t fastened, and the intrusive ideas remained the identical, however falling into the world of pop stars gave me the arrogance to deal with these points head-on.”  

Throughout the podcast, Shane defined that when he does hyper-fixate on a pop star, he turns into “their advocate.” His love for pop stars got here full circle in 2023 when he famously collaborated with Olivia Rodrigo to advertise her single “Vampire” from her album GUTS.

“Truthfully, I used to be in a tough place at the moment, the place I used to be like, ‘I really feel like I am unable to consider something humorous,'” Shane advised PEOPLE on the time. “I used to be like, ‘Olivia Rodrigo‘s ‘Vampire’ is out, let me simply react to it.’ Feminine singer-songwriters are my jam. That is my favourite factor to take heed to.”

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Later within the podcast, Shane opened up concerning the struggles he confronted rising up with untreated OCD, noting how individuals round him merely stated he would “develop out of it.”

“My dad and mom have been very towards treatment, so I used to be like, ‘Okay there’s nothing I may do,’ ” he recalled. “[It] began once I was seven or eight [years old], and I began touching issues evenly. Then it was [tied to] good luck [and] unhealthy luck. Like, ‘If do not do that, I will get unhealthy luck.’ ”

He shared that these tendencies did go away for about two years, nonetheless, they returned when he found social media for the primary time, noting “As soon as it will get in your head, it simply festers.”

“I used to not have the ability to get off the bed if I wasn’t ready to do that one factor [and] I might have a tough time showering,” he recalled. “I used to be lazy, however I used to be lazy as a result of every little thing took a lot work in my head for it to occur. All the pieces took 10 instances longer.”  

As soon as he obtained on treatment and tried publicity remedy, he stated he felt just like the signs have been “extra controllable” and that he may “silence it quite a bit simpler” and “transfer previous the compulsion.”

“I will simply do one thing and overlook about it,” he added. “Whereas [in the past], I might do it, and, like, I would not cease fascinated by it.”