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Oh my goodness, that breaks my heart! As if we “wannabe” like this! I’d hand my OCD over on a plate if I could! Ughhh, some people! d a i s y
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Lots of judgement about taking medication. Viewed as weak/unnatural. Obviously coming from people who do not know the agony of the disorder!
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I completely agree, nabil! Why can’t taking medication be a sign that we care about our health instead of weakness? As if deciding to take medication wasn’t one of the hardest decisions of our life. We do it because it’s necessary to function, and for some of us, that’s impossible to do without meds! I take a cocktail of medications and I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for them! d a i s y
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my best friend’s mom tried to tell me she had OCD when she found out i had been diagnosed. when i talked to her about it all she said was “oh yeah i have to have everything organized all the time i hate messes.” yes some people have that type of OCD but it’s not that easy there’s so much more to it??when i tried to talk about my themes she had no idea there were more themes than everything needing to be clean all the time. she’s a nurse too. yikes
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Mentally ill "wanabees"? I spend more that 1/2 my day checking and rechecking ridiculous things like light switches and toothpaste caps. I definitely don't "wannabe" that, but it happens. I guess some people just don't get it if it doesn't happen to them.?
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Well I was talking to a girl with ocd, and she was very deep in her illness and had convinced herself she was transgender or not in love with her boyfriend. And she told me she’s tired of people being positive when she’s suffering, and wanted to get forums like this shut down ( like what ) then she said they’re all mentally ill wannabes. Which pissed me off tons. All of it came from me giving her advice to go to erp. Bc all she did was rant to me but not take my advice, and get nasty with me whenever I put in my input. Sad ??♀️
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@rfisher sad thing is she thinks she’s “educated” on ocd and said people with pOCD or whatever themes like that are their actual theme. ( ex people with harm ocd actually wanna harm people ) that pushed me to my breaking point.
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People like that will never understand what it's like to live with this.
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@rfisher , exactly, she has ROCD too so you’d expect her to actually know her stuff. ??♀️
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- 18w
Has anyone experienced their reputation affected or misunderstood because of a societally taboo OCD theme? Others catching wind of your obsessions and misinterpreting it, assuming the worst? I’m intentionally keeping it vague because I don’t want my specific situation to get reassured, but it’s been a real tough pill to swallow knowing that people close to me (and anyone else they might talk to) think of me differently. I’m unwilling to share about my OCD because I feel pretty confident it will be taken as an excuse or denial, and feels compulsive and reassurance seeking. Let me know if anyone here has experienced anything like it, how they handled it, exposures you did.
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- 17w
OCD is so much more than just being 'neat' or 'organized'—it’s relentless, exhausting, and often deeply misunderstood. The intrusive thoughts, the compulsions, the anxiety—it can feel like a never-ending cycle that others just don’t seem to get. Many of us have had experiences where even therapists didn’t fully grasp the depth of our struggles. I myself faced difficulty being misdiagnosed and my talk therapist not understanding the full extent of what I was going through until I found NOCD. So many prior therapists wrote off my symptoms as general anxiety, not realizing it was actually OCD all along. If you could sit down with a therapist who truly wanted to understand, what do you wish they knew about OCD?
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I never heard about people with OCD who have messy living conditions. Maybe this is why it took so long to accept my diagnosis. Although I really dont like how OCD is percieved at by the majority of people, I feel like Im weird or something because I dont fit into that stereotype. I understand that a lot of people with OCD have this issue, but why do I feel so different? If anybody else has/had this belief, what helps with feeling more comfortable? Everytime my mom points out my room, and how its messy- Its like I feel so lazy and useless. So then I often plan out everything I was going to do, step by step, always having a reasoning behind everything, because logic always comforts me. When I start tidying up my room, I go full out (Sheets, Laundry, Clorox, Candles, Vaccuming, Then I start going through the guinea pigs cage to rearranging all of their stuff) Yet always somewhere after doing a few things, I start feeling disgusting and almost shameful of myself. 99% of the time I end up laying on my floor sobbing, noting every little thing about my room. How my furiniture doesnt match, how i would rather have solid floor like hardwood or vinyl instead of the carpet, usually things i cant change… and then barely anything gets done in my room. I start to have a meltdown and often dont take care of myself even more afterwards. A piece of me feels like my thoughts are just me being a spoiled brat and wanting everything i dont have- meanwhile others dont even have a roof over their head. The other piece of me is just tired, just emotionally exaughsted. Please comment any thoughts or recomendations to maybe improve motovation and attitude towards doing long tasks.
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