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when people say that around me i tend to just forgive them and let it go since it comes from a place of ignorance and i don't really feel like lecturing everyone i meet :')
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Most of the time they're just ignorant and don't realize how offensive it might be. I try to keep that in mind
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I can understand the frustration. I personally know people who say things like that and at the end of the day I can’t really be bothered to lecture every single person who doesn’t understand what OCD really is. At the end of the day you gotta learn to forgive them. Before I had OCD I barely understood it myself and thought it was just about cleaning yours hands all the time and keeping things tidy.
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I find it infuriating. It was hard when it was just me but now that my daughter also struggles with OCD I witness how damaging these statements can be for others. I also know that perpetuating this myth that OCD is just about being anal and extra tidy truly has prevented folks who have suffered for YEARS with OCD from reaching out and getting help because if one person has intrusive sexual thoughts but all they hear about OCD is offhanded and sarcastic remarks about organizing and clean freaks how do we expect them to reach out for help? Such shameful thoughts can be debilitating. Perpetuating false ideas about OCD is NOT harmless. Folks kill them selves over these struggles. It’s a human responsibility to spread correct info so we can reach those struggling with these horrid intrusive thoughts.
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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?
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Lately I’ve seen way too many comments under posts about OCD, especially the harm, POCD, and relationship themes that are incredibly misinformed and honestly harmful. People saying things like “these thoughts are unnatural,”or “you need to go get real help” and encouraging confession ***compulsions*** when they clearly have no understanding of how OCD actually works. Let me be clear: OCD involves distressing and unwanted thoughts, images, or urges. That doesn’t make someone dangerous. It makes them someone with a mental illness who is terrified of their own brain. Saying these people are “unnatural” or implying they’re broken only reinforces shame, and shame is the opposite of what helps anyone heal. If you’re commenting under OCD-related posts on an OCD ***app*** without understanding what intrusive thoughts are, or what compulsions can look like, or **how OCD can attach itself to the things we fear most** then please, stop. You are not helping. You’re reinforcing stigma and pushing people further into silence. OCD is already isolating. We don’t need more people moralizing or projecting trauma theory onto something they haven’t experienced or don’t understand. If you really care, go learn. Read about intrusive thoughts. Learn about ERP therapy. Or maybe just listen. Because some of us are barely hanging on, and comments like those don’t just miss the point, they can do real damage. I’m sorry if I come off too angry, it just really upsets me to see people speak on something they clearly don’t understand. End of rant. Thank you for reading 🤍
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- 16w
If you are anything like me (and most of you are, because let’s face it, we are all on this chat), you have OCD. Real OCD, not the organisation, matching colours everyone thinks it is. Real OCD. I’ve always known I was different, known that my brain does some waking things and deep down, I’ve always known I’ve had OCD. But there is just something that changes when you finally get the diagnosis. It makes more sense, you have an explanation for your behaviours. So naturally I told my friends. When they ask why I had to stop and step four times on a tile I said ‘oh, I have OCD’. I finally had a word, a tangible concept that I could explain to people. But nobody warned me about the massive misconceptions about OCD. Instead of support or acceptance, my friends seemed to question the diagnosis saying ‘that’s not ocd, don’t you just like things organised?’. And no matter how much I explain it they don’t seem to get it. And that’s the part that feels so cruel. I go through hell in my head and it can all be reduced to a phrase of ‘oh, aren’t you organised’. So please be careful out there you guys, and if someone try’s to downplay your experience, know that you are valid and that what you are going through is probably something that they could never handle. It’s a lesson that took me time to learn, but it’s important because our experience matters. Our real experience.
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