If you like everything to be organized, you don’t have OCD. If you like everything to be organized and fly off the handle and become extremely upset to the point of life problems when things aren’t organized… you STILL don’t have OCD (but you might have OCPD or autism or BPD or something else).
If you don’t really like organization all that much, but are irrationally terrified that your loved ones will die if the cleaning supplies aren’t put away properly, and then you forget if they weren’t away properly, so you go back to check and oh good they were, but then you aren’t sure you checked so you have to go back and check again, and you can’t leave the house because you have to check again because your family will DIE if this isn’t done right… then you have OCD.
OCD is not a like of organization. OCD is an anxiety disorder, an irrational phobia disorder.
I think that my Mum might have had undiagnosed OCD.
She used to get up at 5am to tidy and clean the house before we got up for school and she’d clean it again when she got home from work, she’d clean everything as she went along and tidy up again before bed. It definitely negatively affected her life on a day to day basis by three or four hours a day.
Even if you have a minor form of OCD. OCD right and proper gets actively in the way of living. Indirect unintentional self harm either in mental or physical is not uncommon.
Unmanageable OCD is scary. Had a good friend in high school with serious OCD issues, which lead to hoarding issues and them passing away a few years back due to none of their family helping them and the mental health support in the USA being awful.
OCD is a spectrum disorder like autism. If you think you have it ask a mental health care professional. Most of the time its very manageable and has no impact on your quality of life. But it’s better to seek help earlier then later.
That all said, there’s a good chance the book girl in the comic is autistic or has OCD. But not in a major form of them.
For me it’s the opposite. Simply because I like to stay organized and prepared, everyone keeps telling me I have OCD. I don’t think I do. Maybe?
If you like everything to be organized, you don’t have OCD. If you like everything to be organized and fly off the handle and become extremely upset to the point of life problems when things aren’t organized… you STILL don’t have OCD (but you might have OCPD or autism or BPD or something else).
If you don’t really like organization all that much, but are irrationally terrified that your loved ones will die if the cleaning supplies aren’t put away properly, and then you forget if they weren’t away properly, so you go back to check and oh good they were, but then you aren’t sure you checked so you have to go back and check again, and you can’t leave the house because you have to check again because your family will DIE if this isn’t done right… then you have OCD.
OCD is not a like of organization. OCD is an anxiety disorder, an irrational phobia disorder.
And then the same people go watch videos of “oddly satisfying” organized things.
One of the major diagnostic criteria is that it gets in the way of you living your life or your happiness.
Fastidiousness is not a personality disorder.
I think that my Mum might have had undiagnosed OCD.
She used to get up at 5am to tidy and clean the house before we got up for school and she’d clean it again when she got home from work, she’d clean everything as she went along and tidy up again before bed. It definitely negatively affected her life on a day to day basis by three or four hours a day.
Even if you have a minor form of OCD. OCD right and proper gets actively in the way of living. Indirect unintentional self harm either in mental or physical is not uncommon.
Unmanageable OCD is scary. Had a good friend in high school with serious OCD issues, which lead to hoarding issues and them passing away a few years back due to none of their family helping them and the mental health support in the USA being awful.
OCD is a spectrum disorder like autism. If you think you have it ask a mental health care professional. Most of the time its very manageable and has no impact on your quality of life. But it’s better to seek help earlier then later.
That all said, there’s a good chance the book girl in the comic is autistic or has OCD. But not in a major form of them.