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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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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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