To be very annoyed by “OCD Cleaners?”

DOC cleaning? COD cleaning. Both are a bit daft. Cleaning services for fish or doctors.

DCO is the only other abbreviation that would possibly work, but maybe there was a reason they couldn't use it.

The website makes it very clear what it stands for you when you go on there, but people just have to be offended.

There was a tv show called OCD cleaners the people on there absolutely used it for their personal benefit

The name of that company seems rather forced though. I don’t believe that it isn’t deliberate.

I hate it when medical stuff gets bandied around. Remember art attack on CBBC in the early 90s? The advert I saw was the presenter holding his chest and saying "I think I'm having an art attack!"

This was right after my dad died suddenly of a heart attack, aged 39. Cunts

OP I think you might have this wrong.

I found an ocd cleaning company and there is more than one in the country

OCD stands for office commercial and domestic. In other words, they clean all those types of premises

Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups and also, people are far too easily triggered by everything and anything.These days.

I'm sorry about your daughter, but probably nobody is trying to belittle her illness.

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As someone with OCD I’m surprised you’d suggest it can be channeled in a positive way by indulging the compulsion?

I think this was meant kindly but this shows a common misunderstanding about OCD. It’s not the kind of thing that can be turned into a hobby and indulging in compulsions makes the OCD worse. People with more severe OCD can become so afraid they end up housebound.

"'I have to sort my books!' she cried,
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With self-indulgent glee;
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With senseless, narcissistic pride:
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'I'm just so OCD!'
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'How random, guys!' I smiled and said,
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Then left without a peep -
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And washed my hands until they bled,
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And cried myself to sleep.

I understand OP. Having been suicidal due to OCD the glib use of the term irks.

I get why you're annoyed and how easily the term OCD is thrown around. Oh so you like your ornaments lined up in a row, so you must be OCD.
My DH developed OCD when our daughter was born 12 years ago. Never had it before, he became obsessed with checking door locks and used to wake up every hour to check she was breathing. The older she got the calmer he got with checking her but the doors remained an issue. Then when she was 5 my dad passed away suddenly from a heart issue (they were very close as they worked together) and the OCD ramped up again, checking the door handles saying 1,2,3,4,5. He said if he didn't check it 5 times our children would die. So debilitating. He once described it as a nightmare because you are fighting with your own mind and can't win.
If you feel this strongly, complain, I don't see how anyone can say you are being unreasonable.

To PPs who don’t see the problem with the name, it’s not harmless. It perpetuates the myth that OCD is about being a neat freak and means that people with it don’t recognise the problem so they can get support. It usually takes years for diagnosis and stereotypes don’t help. OCD means people carry out compulsions (which can be physical or just in their own mind) to alleviate a fear. These compulsions and fears are so varied and as a lot of PPs have said, they often don’t involve nearness/cleaning at all. Where someone is compulsively cleaning they are doing that as an irrational fear response e.g. if I don’t clean for hours a day my children will get contaminated by germs and die. I don’t know anyone who has been diagnosed with OCD turn it to their advantage. It’s a hideously debilitating and sometimes deadly illness. Carrying out compulsions only makes it worse and treatment includes overcoming your fears by facing them and not giving into your compulsions. So anyone with actual cleaning OCD setting up a cleaning business feeding into their fears is an idiot. I highly doubt that’s the case with any of these cleaning companies.

This!

I’m a messy ocd person - turns out I have ocd and adhd

I have OCD and it’s really damn hard to live with. Would I contact them? No. Do I think it’s an inappropriate name? Yes! I just shake my head at these kinds of things and think, if only they knew! Unfortunately, people like to claim to have it, or say I’m a bit OCD when it’s clearly not the case. They just have no clue how much we suffer or I don’t think they would do it.

YANBU. OCD is a terrible illness, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

YANBU at all!! I'm a generally easy going person but people glibly referring to being clean, tidy or organised as being 'OCD' pisses me right off!

I watched OCD destroy my sisters life for ten years. Happily, she manages much better now. Things started improving in her early twenties and I hope that's the same for your DD ❤️

Such an insensitive thing for people to say though, and grossly inappropriate for a company to incorporate into their name. Idiots!!

Edited to add, this riled me up so much that I've contacted them 😅

Its ok to be offended 🙄 its just a feeling it will pass

Funnily enough, I saw a van with OCD cleaners on yesterday (close to Baldock services, if that’s anywhere near you) and did a double take. I’m quite shocked to learn that I wasn’t dreaming it.

I actually think OCD is the worst anxiety disorder I worked with - apart from EDs - and I have worked with all of them. There is also the OCD/OCPD thing which is another whole can of worms.

100% with you OP I have OCD and it ruins your life. People just laugh about it like it’s a joke. Imagine joking about people with bi polar or eating disorders. Imagine a diet plan saying ‘you’ll look anorexic’ or something equally vile. No mental illnesses are funny it just makes people feel so much worse to be taken lightly and mocked.

I think all of those are pretty bad honestly!

This is interesting.
I'll look this up.
Thanks.

If you look into that more thoroughly at the criteria used they actually used anxiety disorders as a whole - actually eating disorders giving the 'score' for being disabling rather than OCD. Once eating disorders were separated out then OCD and other anxiety disorders disappeared from that.

All anxiety disorders are unpleasant & disabling but there is absolutely nothing 'special' about OCD over other anxieties & there are certainly much more severe & disabling psychiatric disorders - Dementia, schizophrenia, anorexia etc.

I thought this.

and that's part of the problem. The media portraying OCD as quirky & funny. I remember that show and it got a huge backlash from MH charities. They do the same thing with Tourettes syndrome, portraying it as people 'who just swear' and making viewers laugh. I can assure it is nothing like that. The compulsions from both illnesses can kill. The motives and intentions of the 'TV show' producers is to draw viewers and not necessarily to spread awareness for sufferers so there is more understanding and they can get help.

I think you should go on the MH threads and read what posters are facing at home. A poster's 3-year-old DD who had cleaning OCD, was found in the about 3am, half passed out at the bathroom sink, she'd got out of bed to use the toilet & had been washing her hands all night. Her hands were red raw almost bleeding or the poster whose 10yr old ds was found running around his bed, opening & slamming shut wardrobe doors at bedtime and screaming, 'Mummy pls help me, make me stop!". OCD is an awful horrifc and frightning illness. It is not a quirk you use strengthen 'to your advantage'. It's like having another voice or voices living in your head telling you, and compelling you to perform the same ritual over and over again. It's a terrible thing.

They did at one stage
https://www.ocduk.org/ocd/world-health-organisation/