Monica Geller's character enjoyed cleaning. If you enjoy it, get satisfaction from it - that's not OCD. People with OCD rarely feel relieved by their rituals. There may be a point in which they recognise they have 'done it enough' to move on but that point can be a struggle to reach and is not satisfying.

I had horrible OCD as a child. I spent hours in therapy learning the techniques to redirect my thoughts and slowly became less anxious and fearful. However, still as a grown a*s middle aged adult, I count. I count ALL day. Sometimes I don't listen to what you are saying because I am counting the number of words you say. I count the number of red, green, yellow lights I drive through. The people in a room, how many fingers and toes there are total, how many are wearing blue, red, green, etc. My brain is like an Excel spreadsheet doing vLookups at all times. It's the only tick I haven't been able to "turn off" and it's exhausting

THANK YOU!!! I used to live with crippling OCD, but I worked my a*s off and now its a bit better. I, too, hate it when people use OCD as an adjective. It pisses me off. OCD ain't cute, it ain't "organized," it's f*****g hell.

I never hear people talk about trichotillomania that much, its suprisingly common, but it never gets talked about. I've had it since 5th grade, and it really changed my life a lot.

I sometimes have harmless intrusive thoughts like "throw that gummy bear out the window" sometimes I can stop myself from doing it but sometimes I can't. Also when I walk my feet have to take turns walking over the cracks in the sidewalk, I've been doing this for so long that if I step on the crack I get anxious. I try so hard to make sure my feet alternate over the cracks, I'll take ridiculously long steps or ridiculously short steps to accomplish this. If I'm walking with someone sometimes I completely tune out to whatever they're saying because I am so focused. And when I eat I have to chew on alternating sides, if I don't I get anxious. I keep a mental log of which side I have chewed on last and pick up from where I left off, I will tune you out so I can focus on my chewing. I don't know if this is OCD or not, can one of you panda's let me know if this is or not?

for years I had an obsession with the number 3 and its multiples. I only feel safe crossing streets when I was 3 meters, or 3 seconds, or 3 cars away from the sidewalk. Polishing pencils, pens and other small objects, cleaning ALL MY THINGS with a toothbrush - but I still think it's the better way to clean stuff - and excessive organization, even for the screws I had.... one day I'd decided to use it as a workaround for my jobs. I even studied about ergonomics to justify for myself a lot of things I though it was easier to accomplish because of my OCD. Today I work with video and this obsession with organization already saved a lot of jobs because other's lack of order by doing things.

I expect I will get MANY downvotes for this but here I go. There needs to be more help for people with OCD especially in certain areas. And what I mean by certain areas is things like POCD. Pedophilia OCD. Not every one who has pedophile thoughts have OCD but a large group of people (Anonomously of course) have come out and said they have those thoughts but it causes them great distress, all the same symptoms as mentioned above. We need preventative measures and services for people with these thoughts that want to get help BEFORE anything happens. I watched a doco called The pedophile next door which talks about the shame, anxiety etc that someone with those thoughts go through and getting help is almost impossible. Don’t get me wrong there are many pedophiles that take pleasure and gratification (f*****g sickos) but there are a number of people who are tormented by their thoughts. https://www.treatmyocd.com/education/different-types-of-ocd/

There's a difference between wanting things clean, and having to have things arranged a certain way

someone writing a Sanders Sides fic: omg logan totally has ocd. hes so logical and organized me: hahahah. thanks. gonna go pull out all my hair now

It means counting the gulps of every damned drink you take. I'm stuck on 5. Car alarm beeps 3. Other stuff too.. those bother the life out of me RN

whats not funny is the cycle i need to do this well before I do this I need to do that before I do that I need to do this until it gets to the point that in order to change a light bulb I have to do 6 hours of work all the time thinking I'm doing it wrong or I forgot something or I'm going to hurt someone it gets to the point where you can't do anything

Yes 👏

The media tends to misrepresent/stereotype just about every mental disorder under the sun. First step to creating a character with any kind of disorder/disability/illness/etc is to actually research the condition, ffs.

well, I probably don't have OCD, but I usually overthink every action I do because of the fear of losing someone. Like I would turn off all the lights at night, just to turn them back on in fear of someone going out of their rooms and tripping on objects cause they can't see. Well, it's probably cause I'm a pessimist and know way too much for my age :/

My mom has a friend that has OCD. Like the people in this thread, she is also tired of how the media depicts OCD as “Oh em gee, I enjoy cleaning and I’m so orderly!” Nope. OCD can cause many problems, some as severe as suicidal thoughts. I once saw this ad for a mobile game that said “they turned ocd into a game.”

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my OCD causes me to over do things and smell my food before i eat it, EVERY LITTLE BITE. but it gets way worse than that every time I walk a crosswalk I find myself visualizing my death very graphically and I can't sleep easily also add the OCD with my ADD,ADHD, and Dyscalculia (if you don't know what it is search it) thank you for understanding my hard, hard life

My stepmother has OCD, and living with her was a nightmare... I hated her, becuz she didn't go to a doktor (She told always: "I'm fine, I don't need a doctor"), and just destroyed our life in every f. day.

Its not fun. I hate crinkled paper. I used iron money it drove me to distraction. If I was on a train and someone had a paper bag and they scrunched the top down instead of folding it, I had to leave because it upset me. I have hundreds of notebooks of paper I will not use because I don't want the paper used or ruined. Ppl just don't get how anxious it makes you

Thank you for sharing this. I wia admit, I used to be one of these 'Oh, so OCD' people, noot knowing aboit it really. I want to take this opportunity to apologise and I will not do thia again.

I am surprised exposure therapy as not been mentioned. Exposure therapy, mixed with medication is the gold standard of OCD. I have had severe OCD my whole life, even attending a 2 month hospital program across the country. It’s not fun. Counting a few times or it gives you anxiety or little things like that are mild OCD but severe OCD is the worst feeling in the world. You can’t escape the worst person there is, You. I was so scared of acting on my thoughts that I stayed in bed for months. I became actively afraid of batteries because I was afraid I was going to do something harmful with them. I couldnt Be in the same room as a remote control. I suffer bi-polar, OCD and depression. OCD is by way the absolute worst. I wouldn’t wish it on my first enemy. Just remind yourself that feelings aren’t facts.

Thank you to this person. She articulated the hellish nightmare that is real old so perfectly.

I have a frustrating compulsion of stretching my neck there’s nothing wrong with it but I can’t stop at times and I just keep doing it and making it worse and it’s all I can think of. And also clearing my throat constantly. I have to make excuses of why I do it. It looks weird. I tell people I slept wrong and my neck is hurting even when it’s not. I’m constantly biting the skin off the inside of my cheeks in my mouth. I’m always biting the skin around my fingers till the point where they’re raw and bleed. If I can’t wash my hands I can’t focus on anything else until I do. If I’m having a bad day with my compulsions I can’t leave the house because I’m afraid of being judged and looked at strangely. It takes over my life and I can’t stop no matter how much I tell myself to JUST STOP.

Yeah, OCD isn't when you like your house clean and tidy - it's when you feel forced to clean excessively because you can't relax if something's dirty or out of place. OCD is doing things in a particular order so that nothing bad will happen that's not a real threat, like always turning right and never left no matter how silly it looks because if you turn left you will lose everything that is good in your life because you've associated left with bad and right with good. It doesn't have to make sense to anyone. OCD can be counting obsessively to a specific number, whether it's pushing a button or taking steps or brushing your hair etc. Can be anything. Or you hate the feeling of being dirty, more often it's not about germs but rather about the feeling of sticky or oily or sweat on your skin that just makes you wanna pull your skin off, so you wash excessively to keep your skin squeeky clean to control your anxiety. And as others have said it's often intrusive thoughts. Not a joke.

The media thinks they're portraying OCD, but they're really showing OCPD.

Explained exactly how it s like.

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