To be very annoyed by “OCD Cleaners?”

They're probably as ignorant as the people on here who think using a diagnosis in a flippant way is as bad as calling someone an insulting name, or the people that have suggested they're doing well by turning their illness into a businesses like it's something you can use rationally or turn on and off.
At times in my life I've struggled to leave the house - checking maybe 20 times each that the light are off, the cooker is off, the microwave if off, the unlit candles haven't lit themselves, the tap isn't dripping, the doors are locked - otherwise I can't leave the house. Driving back home part way through my journey to recheck these things otherwise I'm convinced the house will burn down.
Having to perform certain rituals when certain cars drive past otherwise my dad will die.
Having to say prayers when I see certain things otherwise everyone will die.
Intrusive thoughts - going over a pot hole and having to drive back round multiple times to check I haven't actually run someone over.
Touching things a certain number of times otherwise a non specific terrible thing will happen.
Not putting the heating on all winter, to the point that my house got to 4c inside, because it was easier to cope with that than having to check and double check and check 20 times that the heating was turned off before I tried to leave the house otherwise the boiler might explode.
I could go on, but let's be honest people that aren't living with it don't get it, think it's a bit of a joke and say it when they like to put their highlighter pens in a neat order or something.

I totally understand your annoyance. It bugs me when people say 'Oh I'm a bit OCD' because they're tidy or are fastidious about hand washing. Those traits are NOT OCD,they're just normal. Real OCD can be debilitating and seriously affect your quality of life.

I thought the same! Plus Karen is such a misogynistic slur whereas likely this company are simply lacking in understanding, rather than actually being deliberately hateful towards anyone!

Couldn't agree more @Icecreamandcoffee , that's more likely the case, than the navel gazing theories floating around. Its not just intrusive thoughts, its the horrifc compulsions sufferers feel they have to perform to silence those thoughts.

Sean Fletcher's BBC panorama documentary about his 13yr old son's battle with OCD showed the brutal reality. It nearly tore the family apart, I can attest to that.
It started slowly, unable to complete basic tasks, then he couldn't go upstairs to his bedroom, then he couldn't go in the house. He was in a psychiatric hospital for 18mths and missed a year of schooling. It's one of those rare moments where media actually told the truth about this illness instead of turning it into entertainment. This thread is evidence of how far that damage still goes.

Did she have a clinical diagnosis of OCD@MontysMum909?
A lot of people misunderstand what it is.

I had a cleaner who started her business because of her OCD and being really into cleaning. A friend suggested it was the perfect job and so it was. Perhaps the name is literal and you are just assuming they are being flippant.

Still shouldn’t use OCD cleaners imho.

What if its Olivia Carla Dawson Cleaners?

I think it's a poorly thought through name. They are probably capitalising on the "mainstream knowledge and conception" of OCD - people with OCD clean obsessively. Lots of people casually throw out "I'm very OCD with my cleaning" what they actually mean is I am very meticulous when I clean.

I know someone with OCD, she is not a meticulous cleaner. Instead she has rituals she has to perform before doing basic tasks or leaving the house for example: switch the lights on and off 12 times before leaving a room, turn the tap on and off and let it run for exactly 30 seconds 3 times before making a drink. Her morning routine takes her well over 2 hours because of all the rituals she has to do. If she doesn't do the rituals in the correct order then she struggles to leave her house, sometimes it involves starting all the rituals over again. It rules her entire life.

I haven't downplayed the harm of exploiting mental illness at all, simply pointed out the Op's hypocrisy, as have many others. You are quite clearly downplaying the harm of misogyny ("discomfort" in being called a Karen) - the fundamental basis of the epidemic of VAWG.

If it's the one I'm thinking of, they're based on Cornwall.

My OCD never manifested in cleanliness, rather irrational and uncontrollable feelings that my thoughts will cause my loves ones to die or for me to murder people in my sleep.

With the odd exception of when cooking for someone else's kids I'm convinced I've accidentally put razors or oven cleaner in the food, or that the cookware is poisonous so had to be scrubbed for aggggges.

Sounds bonkers written down.

Just to add, it has become debilitating at times throughout my life. Right now, I have it somewhat under control, although my compulsions are still there and I have to consciously fight them or they would take over my life.

I compulsively clean. I've suffered since childhood, and I have to constantly stop my compulsions from escalating. As others have said, they may well have the condition themselves.

YANBU. I called them out last year and they blocked me I think.

If you don't like someone using the term OCD for reasons that seems negative to you,then why would you use the name Karen to do exactly the same.

@Liverpool52 You’re right, I didn’t quote you word for word. I responded to the logic behind your post, which downplayed the harm of exploiting mental illness while elevating the offense of a slang term. Your concern seems focused on the discomfort of being called a 'Karen', while the far more serious issue of trivialising OCD goes unaddressed. If that’s not what you meant, then maybe clarify your priorities. Because right now, they speak volumes.

No you got that completely wrong. What's ignorant is reading something into my post that I didn't say and getting outraged about it.

Let me get this straight: you think exploiting a debilitating mental illness like OCD for profit is somehow less offensive than using a woman’s name as a slur? This isn’t about being ‘easily offended’ it’s about protecting vulnerable people from being publicly reminded of their private hell and triggering further compulsions. You wouldn’t name a company after bipolar or schizophrenia. Trivialising their suffering for business gain is far more damaging than a throwaway insult or slur. This is exactly the kind of ignorance that keeps real sufferers misunderstood and unsupported.

I'd say they know exactly what they are doing here.

There's no way they didn't make the connection. They chose to exploit it.

So using OCD as a business venture is not ok but using a female name as a slur is totally fine?

Agreed. Karen is Sexist misogynist and ageist. But she is going on about a cleaning company.

What a hypocrite you are OP. A “bit of a Karen”. Ffs.

Are you in Gateshead, OP? It annoys me too whenever I see it, as someone who suffers from OCD.

The thing is how do you know they actually had OCD? It was a reality TV series. In order to have diagnosed OCD the compulsions have to be causing significant distress, and they get worse the more you do the compulsions, in a vicious cycle. If any of the cleaners in that show actually had OCD, then they were mentally ill and vulnerable and they would likely have made their condition much worse. Lots of PPs have basically said the same.

My mum claimed she had OCD. No she did not, at all. My best friend has it and it's bad. My daughter is suspected as having it (not diagnosed but obvious).
I miss my mum but christ she could talk nonesense