OCD not taken as serious as other MH disorders

I agree. My boss makes jokes about being OCD and when I share that I genuinely have OCD and deal with it regularly, it feels like it lands on deaf ears. I hope as we continue shining a light on the seriousness of mental health that someday people will take our struggles more seriously. I am learning more and more how OCD impacts the way I operate.

I completely agree. OCD is consistently downplayed and misrepresented in all forms of media. People with OCD are labeled “freaky” or “quirky” or “weird”, and to make it worse, people use OCD as an adjective. People make jokes and profit off of misinformation, which is just sad. Our suffering isn’t funny and shouldn’t be profitable. I have hope though that this will change and more people will be educated about how OCD creates a miserable, exhausting, debilitating existence

I feel like the better you hide your OCD symptoms the less people respect your struggles. Especially for people who deal with mostly mental compulsions. OCD impacts every aspect of our lives- work, family, relationships, intimacy. I can’t stand when people undermine that. I’m a nurse and I struggle to keep my mouth shut when people make comments that make light of our struggle.

I agree. Even when I talk about the things my brain tries to convince me of, people usually laugh it off as me just being ridiculous. They'll say things like "you don't need to think that" or "well you know that's not true" or "stop thinking about it so much". Even my ADHD gets taken more seriously and that's saying something because my family let me believe I was just lazy and broken my whole life before I got diagnosed and medicated. But they understand I have real problems with school and work and interpersonal stuff and my emotions. The OCD they just see as me being ridiculous. I think people really tend to judge someone's disability based on how it affects other people, and if you can hide it well - they don't see it as real

I can relate . Pure -O is something that impacts me often .Personally I feel the average person doesn’t understand OCD . With that said most people are caught up in their own personal struggles and dramas . It is not anyones responsibility to learn about OCD or show me any empathy about this mental issue or anything else for that matter . It falls squarely on me only . It is nice to receive occasional support put I don’t count on it. You come into the world alone you go out of it alone . The main point of this I try hard to be as self reliant as possible in my life .