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Just say just because you like things to be clean doesn’t mean that you have ocd. Just explain to them what ocd is all about and how it is not the stereotypes that are displayed on tv. You could always say that you are so overwhelmed by your thoughts that you have no energy to clean up the mess. Ocd is an exhausting and overwhelming condition. Ocd is such a misinterpreted condition and people think what is being displayed on tv is actual ocd but is really isn’t.
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Your not the only one it sucks when people say that. Mabe you could try to educate them or sometimes when u know that their jus bein ignorant leave them be there not worth it. Hope ur feeling ok.
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Lol contamination ocd is almost the face of OCD. When I tell someone I have OCD I always joke and say “obviously it’s not the ‘cleaning’ one” (bc I’m really messy.) Just remember it’s a lack of info. OCD is very broad and we probably wouldn’t know much about OCD either if we didn’t have it, just like we’re probably not super informed about other specific disorders. This is an opportunity for you to enlighten them :) or not if you don’t want to.
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Thank you!
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Also OCD can sometimes make cleaning extremely difficult because of the OCD. For example I have contamination OCD and often feel things can’t be clean enough to the point where it is so overwhelming I avoid cleaning or it piles up because there’s not enough time to clean how I would feel like I needed to.
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Today I heard a girl say ' no, I know I have OCD because I need to have a clean car'. I asked ''what are you worried about happening if you don't have a clean car' and she told me 'nothing'. And she told me she has to organize her cutlery. She continued to be...well.... oblivious and it's almost like she sees it as a trend for social media. Like what even is that??!! It was so bad for me last year and After all the debilitation I have worked through, it's kind of somehow insulting when someone thinks it's trendy to have. Like why am I still mad about it. This was 12 hours ago and I'm still urked but I know people would get it if I wrote it here! I need absolutely no reassurance, I feel how I feel I'm just mad!
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I'm tired of people not understanding how terrifying OCD can be. Just saw a video about OCD with no mention of other disorders and someone commented "Try having BPD". I got angry and started arguing (I know there is no point in that, but I got so pissed off) saying that it's not a competition and OCD can be as bad as BPD and sometimes worse, it's different for everyone and depends on the severity (I saw people online who have both, and for some of them OCD is worse than BPD, not all for course, but that was my point, depends on the person) And then the user just started insulting me saying that it's a proven fact that BPD is the worst (it's literally not true, I checked it) and OCD is bad but not as bad. I know they are just a dumbass, because the second I asked for proof they just started insulting me and saying that I'm "uneducated", but I got so angry anyway for some reason lol
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So my mom doesn’t think that i have OCD but i think i do. I also do have anxiety medication, and aren’t there some types of OCD that involve anxiety? I also have been feeling a little bit depressed lately struggling to love me and my body. I feel like i don’t belong in the world anymore. I started feeling depressed around 6 months ago before that i was doing fine. I also struggle getting out of bed, i cant get up to do simple tasks like throwing away trash or brushing my teeth. Some things that always trigger me is that when I’m with someone and they use the bathroom but don’t wash? It makes me feel so sick inside. I also need everything to be PERFECT like if my phone is a tiny bit crooked i HAVE to fix it or else i get anxious. My mom also told me since i have a messy room i don’t have OCD but i looked it up on google and it said people with OCD can also have messy rooms. I did do a test online for OCD and it said it looks like i have OCD. And i also get very mad if my brother messes something up. Yeah so I don’t know, do you guys think i have OCD??
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