I don’t know how much this bothers anyone else, but I can’t stand it when people use OCD as a punchline. Like “oh so you have a debilitating mental illness where you’re intrusive thoughts consume your mind 24/7 from the time you go to bed to the time you wake up? Yeah didn’t think so…. So don’t use “I’m a little OCD” in a sentence. You can’t be a little OCD, you either have OCD or you don’t. How have you responded to comments like this? From either a family member or friend?

Yeah this type of shit drives me nuts, and it has to do with all mental illnesses. I hate that people use terms like "psychopath" or "bipolar" so loosely. These are serious mental issues that affect people tremendously. Sometimes if i have enough energy ill comment on these punchlines because it's extremely inappropriate in my opinion. Also, have you seen those stupid game ads? They are like antistress games where you have to put things into order or do something in a satisfying way and they'll say stuff like "this game is perfect for my ocd". Some people also apperantly use ocd in sentances like "sorry, can you please fully wipe the board? My ocd is insane right now 😝" like bitch stfu

I think we have to understand that mental illness is only in the last few years being so widely talked about and understood...Unfortunately but also fortunately there is slowly more information on OCD and what this is. You could try explaining that there are different forms of it. Hopefully they will try and use that word differently another time