To think people really need to stop using the term OCD so lightly?

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It is such a bugbear of mine.

'Cups need to go next to the glasses in the dishwasher. LOL's! I'm so OCD!'

I hear it said a lot, especially on Mumsnet. Of all the things that MN get offended about, why on earth is this not one of them?

A friend of the family suffered from OCD for two years. She couldn't walk from one end of the living room to another without screaming and crying because she just couldn't control her compulsions. She had to drop out of school, lost friends and basically lost two years of her life. It was devastating for her family to watch. Thank goodness she is now recovering.

It is an utterly crippling disorder and the people suffering from it deserve for it to be treated with the upmost seriousness.

Truth sweet yes three loo rolls to be precise, replaced as soon as the current one is used so there is always three with inner tubes taken straight down to the recycling bin (they can't go in the normal bin as they been next to the toilet.

Yanbu. I have suffered with OCD for 20 years - I wish it was as simple as 'oh I'm so ocd about my dishwasher lol' etc. Life would be so much easier!
I hate to hear my disorder trivialised in that way. It makes me feel like I should pull myself together but I can't. Fortunately I can function quite well in day to day life.

Sutekidane If you read my post properly you'll see I was correcting a poster who said OCD is under the autism spectrum which it certainly is not.

I've been diagnosed almost half my life so am well aware of the varying severity of OCD.

I had Pure O after my eldest was born as part of my Birth Trauma. I have never been so crazy scared as I was with that! I would cling onto my baby and cry, I wouldn't let anyone take her when I was like that because I was convinced she was about to die for whatever reason it was that time. I suffered with it for two years. I started to get some O thoughts after my third, I was scared it had come back but it didn't last long. I don't have anything about cleaning, I've joked that it could at least affect me like that (not that I want OCD but if I've got to have it, you know?)

It does annoy me when people use it lightly.

YANBU, even slightly. I don't even bother saying anything though tbh. People misuse the names of all sorts of mental illnesses to affectionately describe their tedious personality traits, don't they? Or to try and explain other people's bad behaviour?
"I was in a great mood this morning and now I'm a bit down I must be bipolar!!" Yeah, ok.
"My DH keeps screaming in my face and pushing me around" - "Maybe he's on the spectrum hun." Er...

It fucking riles me. I don't disclose any more because of this horseshit. I'm worried that if I say "I have bipolar disorder" people will think I mean it in the self-diagnosed sense. As opposed to the real, fuck-your-life sense.

YANBU. In fact, I have wanted to start a thread about this for a long time. I hate the way smug, tidy people refer to themselves as OCD. That is not OCD. OCD is praying thousands of times a day even though you don't believe in God so that nothing bad happens to your family, for example. So bad that you can't lead a normal life. That is OCD.

There was a really annoying woman phoning into the Jeremy Vine show the other day who kept banging on about how 'OCD' she was about keeping her children away from the toy box in the GP surgery because of the risk of them having been touched by children with infectious illnesses. It turned out she didn't mean OCD at all - she just meant 'especially concerned and vigilant' about it.

Then she went on to describe how ALL of the people in her workplace are 'really OCD' about washing their hands because they work in some area of environmental health and they are very aware of the need for good hygiene.

She must have said OCD about 5 times and I wanted to reach into the radio and grab her throat by the end of it.