Anyone else find this pretty ignorant and offensive

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Advert for a local company popped up on my fb, what were they thinking!

Oh FFS OurBlanche you know that's not what I meant. I have OCD. And yeh, it is something I don't generally admit to. Because of all the ignorance displayed upthread.

I would liken this to so-called 'casual' misogyny where often people do not see quite how offensive they are being until they are on the receiving end of something similar.

Yes bluntness. This poster implies that OCD is aspirational. I doubt very much whether a poster which brought to mind aids or cancer (or broken bones, or psoriasis) would be seen in such a positive light. I therefore think that this adds to the perception that OCD isn't really that bad and actually on the whole is a positive thing. It's all about liking pictures hung straight and your clean dishes put away immediately. Which trivialises a mh condition in my opinion.

She knows that bluntness. Hence the comparison. If they were the same there woukd be no need for the analogy.

This poster implies that OCD is aspirational.

BTW I am not professionally offended. I won't lose any sleep over it, I'm not angry or all butt hurt. This is a bit of a sore spot for me though. More so now my son has it and I've watched him go through hell and back and my friend with OCD killed himself over it.

I fail to see the funny side of it and I don't think there is anything wrong with people who have been affected by OCD being sensitive to this type of thing. It doesn't mean we are PO (as I was called in a similar thread recently) we all have our things we are sensitive over.

Yes I agree u2. I am not actually offended. I do not have OCD. However I think it is ignorant and harms something I feel stronly about - it makes me annoyed. I used "offended" to cover that feeling.

So you'd be happy with the aids poster? It's just a funny play on words.

Offended isn't the right word is it? I'd say this type of thing makes me sad, why can't people be a bit more kind and thoughtful? There are so many other puns they could have made.

I've had OCD and the pp who described it as "mental torture" was spot on.

Bluntness Read it again, Tali was using a simile, I was responding in kind... really clear in both posts via the words parallel and liken

Elle I did say that I thought it was unintentional, but, well, you typed it!

I'm as PC as they come, but even I am starting to worn down by the finding of offence in every ... single ... thing.

Oh dear what a shame for you

Eh, well, OurBlanche, if you consider that one word more important than my post trying to remind people to be kind to the OP (who you accused on p1 of being "offended on behalf of people with OCD") then carry on.

And anyway, surely if there's the possibility that doing something might make someone else's life a bit more difficult, and it's something you don't have to do or can easily change, why do it? Why stick to you "rights" regardless? There are a million names for cake companies (I know, I went through most of them before I named mine!) Just choose something else!

More a real shame for people whose lives seem to be blighted by it. Wonder if it will be added to the DSM?

That was to david

Yep, offended really isn't the right word.

I find it ignorant and unfunny. What does piss me off is when people on these threads call me PO and tell me I need to lighten up (not that it has happened yet). They always go that way. It's fine if it doesn't bother you but it's also equally as fine that it bothers me and others.

I was a part of a OCD CBT support group for years and met some good friends in that time who had been through utter hell and back. I just can't get on board with making light of the condition in any way. Sure, I laugh at myself and my son laughs with me as well but it's done in a very different way.

That is an offensive advert OP I agree. OCD is a very difficult thing to live with and this just adds to the ignorance surrounding it. I can't stand it when people say they are abit ocd just because they clean slot etc. No you can't be abit ocd! It is a serious mental health disorder not something to joke about.

Elle when you typed it I had no reason to know you have OCD.

"Admitted" is the kind of mealy mouthed word many who misunderstand many MH issues use. Those people who see MH issues as a 'problem' as 'shameful' illnesses.

That you used the word 'offended' me in the same way as OPs OP did. I read it as being condescending, misunderstanding the reality of OCD.

And I also have ocd btw

I had OCD years ago and I don't find it particularly offensive or funny on a personal level but I can see why some do. Sitting firmly on the fence here.

I do find it more offensive people that trivialise it, 'oh I like my house tidy, bit OCD me'. Probably not helped by shows such as OCD cleaners that some are under the notion sufferers spend their time cleaning when the reality is horrific intrusive thoughts that produce pure panic and terror. I thought I was losing my mind at one stage.

These are usually the same sort of people that claim they have the flu when they have a sniffle though

The use of language in different settings and with different intentions. On the one hand, I am with those who are weary of just about everything being offensive. On the other, I appreciate the sensitivity of those who are close (themselves or those they love) to a condition which appears to be trivialised.

It seems to me there was some time put in to designing the advert, which is a fairly "out there" statement (in writing, presumably planned to be in the public domain for at least a few weeks if not months).

There is a world of difference between this and someone remarking in passing (to a friend who does not suffer from the condition) " oh I'm a bit schizophrenic about that"
One is intentional, planned in advance and fairly likely to be seen by someone who is currently struggling with the issue. The other is just - well, a casual comment between friends, which has no implications at all for the attitude of the person saying it towards mental health.

So, the advert is crass and badly thought through. A bit like the ironing company near me called "depressed" ! Apart from anything else, I think the word associations are likely to have a negative impact on sales. So pretty poor PR all round.

And OP said she has OCD but did not confirm whether she has a medical diagnosis or a slight social issue!

Not sure why I need to tell you my medical history to somehow more validate my grievance

*The Obsessive Compulsive Disorder condition doesn't have the rights to the OCD acronym.

Would you say the same about AIDS or HIV?

I've lost that battle force. People seem happy to tell me that the aids advert wouldnt lead to good sales, but not if that's any dofferent from tbe OCD onem