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- 5y
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The casual use of the term 'OCD' is ridiculously harmful. I am a kitchen designer, and I daily have customers say something like "please can the cupboards line up becuase it will upset my OCD". I have started speaking up about it because I do genuinely hold pin a lot of blame over my delay in diagnosis on this blasé approach, as I have never been particular about symmetry. But I will never speak out about it too much - I usually just say 'i have OCD' to those people, and generally they go sheepish. What I want to say is similar to what you have written! I want to say something along the lines of: "I have OCD too. I get so caught up on hypotheticals that I constantly wrestle with suicidal thoughts. I have a constant court case in my head arguing my guilt over an impossible multitude of different situations, that I often perform checking habits that people notice, and if I can't check, I consider turning myself in or just ending it in order to assume control." It's a struggle, and I appreciate you so much for fighting the fight both with your OCD, and the people that unintentionally disparage it x
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- 5y
Thank you guys! I’m glad I wrote it on there. I asked 2 of my friends what they thought of it before I posted and then said right and now for the anxious wait to see if anyone actually gives a crap 😂 even if I stopped one person from saying it I’d be pleased, I think it related my diagnosis because everyone makes OCD sound like nothing and also very stereotypical so it took me years to figure it out ❤️
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I think I will write a fictional story of this one --- I already have an idea. And also tomorrow, I will write a discussion about OCD on my secret blog haha
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- 5y
Yes. (I'm so tired I can think so I just have up and wrote yes I got nothing........good job though mate.) 😊
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I love this. ❤️ Also, I can relate. For the most part, this is what OCD looks like for me too.
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I am sick of my brother he knows such things when he doesn't. Goodness, he is a stupid asshole
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- 23w
Listen, I totally get it. It’s hard to hear a loved one obsessing over small, insignificant things. My mom tries to be supportive, but she gets so mad when I tell her what’s on my mind, and she just yells at me and says I’m crazy for thinking like this. So, I just sent her this, and I hope it helps: Mom, I know it’s really hard, but when I’m suffering with OCD thoughts, all I need is sympathy. Getting mad at someone for having OCD is like getting mad at someone for having a head injury. Please understand that I can’t help it, or else I would stop it. I need someone to say, “I’m so sorry that’s bothering you this much. It must be so overwhelming. It must be so hard to cope with this.” You could even ask me questions, like “What does it feel like? How much are you thinking about this? What helps you feel better?” I just need someone to validate my experience and sympathize, not tell me that I’m crazy or say my problems aren’t real. I’m aware these thoughts are crazy — that’s why I feel so alone and sad and scared. When you tell me my thoughts are crazy, it makes me feel even more like a freak. Sometimes, I just need someone to hold my hand and tell me I’m not alone.
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- 16w
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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- 13w
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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