Found this post on IG, which said that anxiety is a form of control. I do not fully get it. Do you guys understand that?

Like you could get anxiety maybe going into big groups or worry about things that will happen in the future because you want certainty and you have no way to know if it will be ok? I think 😅

I think this is poor wording. I have had people say this as a means of saying OCD people are "control freaks" which is too easily conflate with abusers. For me it's about personal control and boundaries. I freak out when I feel like my personal space is violated. That's not about controlling others. I don't think contamination ocd is about control over one's own boundaries and personal space. Israel did a study that found a strong correlation between victims of childhood abuse and contamination phobias. The idea being if your boundaries were badly violated as a child so maintaining them as an adult can become an obsession. I definitely relate to that.