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- 4y ago
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- 4y ago
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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- 4y ago
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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- 4y ago
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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- 4y ago
Thank you!
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- 4y ago
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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- 20w ago
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- 13w ago
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