Do some OCD sufferers legit have these themes as their absolute biggest struggles? People always say like “ugh I can’t have things not in order, my OCD gets in the way” or something, but really whenever I hear anyone say that I assume there’s no way they actually have legit OCD. I’m just curious, do you know if these are in fact the biggest struggles for some OCD sufferers?
“Just Right OCD”, and “Order and Symmetry OCD” can be extremely severe and disabling. Unfortunately because it inaccurately seems close to the way people use OCD as an adjective, some folks, even within the OCD community don’t take it seriously because they assume the actual subtypes of Just Right and O&S are just the stereotypical versions of it that are “less severe” than the lesser-known subtypes but I know from experience they can be really severe subtypes as well. https://iocdf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Just-right-OCD-Fact-Sheet.pdf
Thank you for this, honestly I think I was just questioning it because I’ve seen so few posts about those themes on this app and also people who bring it up casually don’t genuinely seem distraught by it. This is good information, thank you
I don't know. I struggle with people that say things like. Ugh! I'm so OCD over this. I don't know if that's what you're meaning here. But, if that is what you mean, then I definitely think that that is super annoying and that most of the times people are just using OCD as a term to explain the fact that they are detail oriented. Oriented. I don't believe in those cases that people actually have OCD. I think that they believe that OCD only implies organization. However, I do think that there are some people that have OCD and are really only tied up in the symmetry and that those things like organization, symmetry things being lined up perfectly are their biggest struggles.
it bothers me but not at all my biggest struggle
My therapist brought up the concept of perfectionism. I never had considered this in my ocd but wow was he right. I see it as I reflect. I thought I was strictly pure o (HOCD, SOCD). What’s everyone know about the manifestation of perfectionism in OCD?
Is it true that OCD latches onto thing you value most? My themes are: pure OCD, POCD, and real event. If those are my themes, what does that mean about what I value?
Does anybody else look at someone else’s profile here, see the ocd themes they struggle with, and wish that they had those issues i stead of the ones they’re dealing with? I don’t wish ocd on anyone and from me that’s a lot cause I’ve wished some pretty bad shit on people. But I’m just saying I feel like there are some ocd themes that are much worse then others. I have SOOCD and an ROCD equivalent (don’t ask) but what I think is THEE worst OCD? POCD. That shit must be horrible and I’m so sorry for anyone struggling with it
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