- Date posted
- 3y
- Date posted
- 3y
SERIOUSLY. CAME ON HERE TO SAY THIS. it’s absolutely ridiculous and SO offensive towards people who ACTUALLY have ocd. my teacher is constantly and i mean CONSTANTLY talking about ‘his ocd’ when he messes up his writing and tries to fix it or if something is slightly crooked. like just because you want something to look nice DOESNT MEAN YOU HAVE OCD. i want to scream this in class yet i keep quiet. it makes me so mad. if only he and others realized how bad ocd really is. god, if only it WERE as simple as saying ‘oh! this drawing looks ugly, UGH! my OCD! i hate it!” truly one of the worst things about ocd imo is having to deal with ignorant people who think they know what the f ocd is. im so mad
- Date posted
- 3y
Same here I hear it all the time and I just think to myself, “you don’t know the half of it” and I kind of just sigh and laugh because I’m glad they don’t have it (wouldn’t wish it upon anyone) and they have no clue on what it’s really like, and imo I am really confused to how people don’t know the truth about ocd? Why is it seen as “oh I have do so and so, my ocd” and not how it really is and ruins peoples life’s ?? I think more awearness needs to acc be spread and not even just ocd, all mental health issues!
- Date posted
- 3y
This makes me so angry. Its so hurtful and dismissive. People have no clue what we go through on a daily basis. Sometimes I just don't have the words to explain. Another one I hate is "Everyone is a little OCD" No they aren't!
- Date posted
- 3y
I remember trying to explain that I have OCD to a friend and they told me that “it’s just wanting things to be clean” and that I’m overreacting. It sucks how people don’t understand what OCD actually is.
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- Date posted
- 13w
When I hear the others might think that they could also have ocd when I tell them I could have it or they want to say they have it after I’ve got diagnosed with, without knowing how I feel it is like why do I always have to have something and then they say they also might have it are they supporting, joking or what?
- Date posted
- 12w
I know that sounds a bit harsh, but people with OCD think very differently then everyone else and we do strange things. I used to think OCD was just that we overthink to much and have compulsions to fix it, but its kinda alot more than that i realise. Like peoples lives are legit debilitated from this thing. Thats serious and i dont think others realise that. Mabye im concerned too much idk.
- Date posted
- 10w
my mom has been on this adhd kick where she thinks everyone has adhd instead of what they actually have because apparently it can present itself as anxiety. well i told her i was taking prozac because that’s something she needs to know since i still live at home. and she’s fine with it because it’s my choice. however, she comes into my room because she sent me a video about adhd. in the video, at the end, it says “girls with adhd may develop perfectionist or obsessive compulsive tendencies.” THEN, she has the audacity to tell me my compulsions didn’t start to show until after high school when that isn’t true at all. i just never talked about it, but of course she doesn’t believe me. i just feel so invalidated because after all of the hell i’ve been through, to be told i don’t have what i most certainly am positive i do have is atrocious. i would lose my mind if i was told i didn’t have ocd because of the intrusive thoughts i get that make me feel like a terrible person. i feel like being told that sets me back so far and makes me want to thought spiral a bit. i’m so upset.
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