So I heard one my best friends saying she has OCD. All she did was considered perfectionism and she was organizing peoples stuff on school. I do organize my suff but as a compultion and it is not like it bothers me , I HAVE to, I don’t think she understands. I would be torturing myself instead of organizing ppl stuff, is not like she didn’t want ppl to watch it.I think she wanted attention or smth, but I felt offended about it .

I think sometimes OCD is used as slang to mean that you’re particular about the way things are organised and I think that most of the time although people don’t understand what ocd is they do understand that that isn’t what it is. I try to separate the slang term from the actual thing because otherwise I just get angry. But I definitely still get triggered by it when people say it because I worry that people will realise I actually have it.

Holy crap I have hated people using OCD as an adjective since 1992. That was when I was diagnosed.

Good! I wish I had the guts to do that

I get offended too. Maybe educate her on the real meaning and how OCD is a serious mental illness.

Even when I straight up tell people I have it, take meds, etc, they go into a long thing about how they have it, too, and then talk about how they have to keep some dumb thing lined up or how obsessive they are about cleaning their fridge or something stupid. I usually respond with well the difference between that and clinically diagnosed ocd is that one interferes with normal daily functioning to the point of debilitation and the other doesn’t. Most still don’t get it. It’s offensive. It’s akin to someone saying I have cancer and someone else responding with oh, yeah, I have that too sometimes.

I know, it sucks, I think maybe by saying they have it too they’re trying to make us feel better like we just said we were weird and they were like “don’t worry, me too!” It pisses me off but I’m not sure what u can really do

I try to educate people a bit if they seem receptive. I used to not talk about my ocd with anyone but then I decided that if it’s ever going to be de-stigmatized that people need to see what a person with ocd is really like, and that we’re not just some stereotype.

I didn’t have the guts until I was in my 40s. I’m considerably older now. ??