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- 3y
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- 3y
I completely know how you feel. When my husband and I told my mother in law that I have ocd she then started talking about how she think she is too because she’s forgets she unplugged something or that she wants something to be a certain way. I was so upset cause I think people don’t understand that being ocd is not an adjective. It feels belittling when they think they know because they have no clue of how annoying and overwhelming and stressing having ocd really is.
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- 3y
I hear you. When I told my mom about my OCD her response was "I think everyone is a little OCD" my first thought was "No, they arent." It was so hurtful and dismissive. It triggered a massive spiral and I almost quit treatment because of it.
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- 3y
Ugh I’m sorry you all experienced it too. How can we make it better? Like it seems people just can’t wrap their mind around it
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- 24w
I thought I was doing so well. But then my partner accidentally & unknowingly triggered me by jokingly saying about himself that “he’s pretty ugly anyways.” My thought of thinking he looks ugly sometimes is the main thing my ocd revolves around. Now I feel like I SHOULD be distressed over this thought after him jokingly saying this. Ugh
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- 19w
Today I heard a girl say ' no, I know I have OCD because I need to have a clean car'. I asked ''what are you worried about happening if you don't have a clean car' and she told me 'nothing'. And she told me she has to organize her cutlery. She continued to be...well.... oblivious and it's almost like she sees it as a trend for social media. Like what even is that??!! It was so bad for me last year and After all the debilitation I have worked through, it's kind of somehow insulting when someone thinks it's trendy to have. Like why am I still mad about it. This was 12 hours ago and I'm still urked but I know people would get it if I wrote it here! I need absolutely no reassurance, I feel how I feel I'm just mad!
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- 19w
I'm tired of people not understanding how terrifying OCD can be. Just saw a video about OCD with no mention of other disorders and someone commented "Try having BPD". I got angry and started arguing (I know there is no point in that, but I got so pissed off) saying that it's not a competition and OCD can be as bad as BPD and sometimes worse, it's different for everyone and depends on the severity (I saw people online who have both, and for some of them OCD is worse than BPD, not all for course, but that was my point, depends on the person) And then the user just started insulting me saying that it's a proven fact that BPD is the worst (it's literally not true, I checked it) and OCD is bad but not as bad. I know they are just a dumbass, because the second I asked for proof they just started insulting me and saying that I'm "uneducated", but I got so angry anyway for some reason lol
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