It boils my blood when people think they are ocd because They use hand sanitizer once in a while or like a clean house. The term is used really loosely at my work and it bothers me. They have no idea what we go through.

I know I hate now when someone goes “sorry haha it’s my ocd” just because they like reorganize something

Someone told me that they have “ obsessive cleaning disorder “ too. I don’t know to laugh or what lol

Yes I was just talking about this with a friend of mine it is almost used as a joke. Before I knew I had ocd people would come up to me and because I liked to have my pens in a straight line they would joke that I have ocd.

I know it irks me too.

I have a friend who has OCD too. When someone says something like that her response is "So are you tortured by your thoughts?" Yeah. The people we love can be hard to deal with. When my depression got really bad my mom used to say "You choose to feel this way." I used to think to myself Who in their right mind would choose to feel this way? She also thinks grief and depression are the same. I've experienced both and they are NOT the same. Not even close. I've offered her a opportunity to learn more about mental illness, but she won't. Which is one of the reasons why I am reluctant to tell her about my OCD. There are certain things I just can't talk to her about and unfortunately. my mental health is one of them. I know my parents love me and I love them. But I just can't.