To be offended by this poster at work

[FuzzyWuzzywasaWoman]

I work in a hospital, and noticed today somebody has laminated and put on a notice board a poster promoting hand washing, but it says " if you're OCD and you know it wash your hands" I know, I know, it's supposed to be lighthearted but I have a friend who was debilitated with OCD and it's not just a bloody hand washing obsession.

The poster was on full view of patients as well as staff, and I couldn't help but think it somehow made light of a god damn awful condition. AIBU to be offended on behalf of OCD sufferers, or is just something people would find funny?

I have ocd and wasn't offended. I laughed. I think we spend far to much time being offended by the smallest things.

I have OCD amongst other mental health problems and I'm not offended, I'm sad that my condition which affects my life in so many ways and already has some stigma surrounding it is used as if it was funny.

NHS worker here

The "if you're OCD and you know it wash your hands" implies to be

"The rest of you filthy buggers don't bother"

What really me is when my patients say to me "Oh you're the first one I've seen washing your hands"
which I think, either my collegues aren't washing (unlikely) or the patient doesn't SEE them washing.
But I wipe the Doppler and chair in front of the patient and open the packs.

I've had patients say to me "Oh, you're OCD" but I think they think it's a compliment?

Yeah. Be offended. Whatever.

Oh, and YABU.

If I saw that in a hospital, I'd be offended. I'd think that the staff there took a light view of a mental illness that can destroy lives. I'm probably quite sensitive having been made so ill with it that I didn't leave the house for four months but I think its so wrong the way some mental illnesses are used for humour so casually. And in a hospital of all places :/

That reads more like something I'd expect to read in a 6th form common room than in a hospital just because I do kind of expect hospitals and therefore the NHS to be a little better informed than that.

Quite shocking really.

YANBU and as someone who has OCD thank you for taking it down. I'm shocked that a poster like that has been placed in an NHS setting. How insensitive and dismissive of the hell that obsessive compulsive inflicts on people.

You are absolutely fine to be offended by it, not sure what the ridiculous suggestions that as a non-sufferer you can't be offended are all about. I've never had cancer but I would be offended if I saw a poster making out it is a light hearted condition with only a bit of life threatening cells to worry about.

O fgs words fail me.
take it down and give the person training.

Just show a picture of microscopic germs :)

Aside from the offense issue, is it not actually discouraging people from washing their hands? I mean, surely nobody WANTS to be "OCD?"

The notice is totally inappropriate. The message is about washing your hands, it just needs to say that with no references to OCD.