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OCD Is Not A Joke
I saw this on my news feed and it made me really angry.
Far too often, OCD is used as a term to apply to people who are perfectionists, or who like things done a certain way.
This does not mean that they have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
I saw another meme online a while ago, which stated “Just because I like things a certain way, doesn’t mean that I have OCD, it just means that I like shit done right”.
This is so true. People are always so quick to say that their “OCD” makes them do something as if it’s just some kind of random quirk.
Take it from someone who suffers on a daily basis (yes, SUFFERS)! This illness is not a quirk that I can pick up and put down.
Tell that to my aching muscles that are so tight from twitching already, but I can’t stop until it feels just right.
Tell that to my red and swollen hands that I’ve just had to scald with water.
Tell that to my chin, where I have picked and picked, just to get that single hair that has suddenly appeared from nowhere, that no one else but me can see.
How I wish that I could just pick these things up and put them down when I want to.
