topic Re: Use of the term OCD in Suggestion Box

Use of the term OCD

Bowne — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:03:26 GMT

Within the last week,one rep and one host has used the term OCD to describe their own love of order and preciseness, Both of these individuals meant no harm - I am certain. Having become good friends in recent years with a person with this disorder I have learned how much more complex this condition truly is, So lets just try to be more sensitive and perhaps learn a little more of what it entails.

Re: Use of the term OCD

Tori3569 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:16:56 GMT

I am a person with diagnosed OCD who has taken medication for it and has been in therapy for OCD and anxiety disorder for almost 30 years. It's a hard diagnosis to deal with but I'm better than I was.

Hearing the term OCD does not insult me in any way, shape or form and isn't something I feel needs to be used delicately. It's a well known euphemism for neat and orderly and I don't even notice people using it most of the time.

Others may feel differently, but I've had it since I was a child, didn't seek help until I was in college and wasn't diagnosed correctly until my mid 20s. I certainly know what it entails and the angst it causes and still have no issue with the term used as a general term of speech.

Re: Use of the term OCD

Mz iMac — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:17:40 GMT

@Bowne Just because you became good friends w/a person who suffers from OCD you believe the rep & host were being insensitive?

There are mild forms of OCD too. Order and preciseness is a few of them. It only becomes serious when it disrupts the person's everyday living including the work place.

Re: Use of the term OCD

Tori3569 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:20:06 GMT

@Mz iMac wrote:
@Bowne Just because you became good friends w/a person who suffers from OCD you believe the rep & host were being insensitive?

There are mild forms of OCD too. Order and preciseness is a few of them. It only becomes serious when it disrupts the person's everyday living including the work place.

You hit the nail on the head @Mz iMac . My sister has the mild form where she just has a need for organized surroundings. I have the more complicated form with counting, repetition and ruminating thoughts. Again, anyone using it is 100% fine with me.

Re: Use of the term OCD

Nightowlz — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:30:46 GMT

My next door neighbor has OCD. He checks his mailbox & car door locks multiple times.

I read the other day singer Luke Combs has OCD. He has unwanted mental thoughts & images.

Online it says there are 4 different categories.

@Mz iMac

My neighbor was fired from his dishwashing job. He kept washing his hands until they were bleeding. They told him they couldn't have someone with bleeding hands washing dishes.

Re: Use of the term OCD

Mz iMac — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:41:26 GMT

If you believe some of the members here, they have a mild form of OCD by being shopaholics.........

The serious form can bankrupt and/or max out credit cards.

Re: Use of the term OCD

tl98466 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:35:22 GMT

All I can say is, Oh Lord! Is there ANYTHING we can say that won't be offensive someone?

Re: Use of the term OCD

Desertdi — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:35:22 GMT

Car must be absolutely CLEAN with NOTHING in it

Re: Use of the term OCD

Klimt — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:40:10 GMT

@Mz iMac wrote:
If you believe some of the members here, they have a mild form of OCD by being shopaholics.........
The serious form can bankrupt and/or max out credit cards.

It is called Compulsive Shopping Disorder.

Re: Use of the term OCD

rms1954 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:58:18 GMT

What isn't offensive?????

Re: Use of the term OCD

MoonieBaby — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:06:13 GMT

I don't disagree, sometimes I cringe hearing it used from them.

Re: Use of the term OCD

CalminHeart — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:14:47 GMT

I'm not at all offended by the comment. For many years, it's been used to describe various things exactly what the host said. Not a big deal.

My Dad became what I call OCD in his older years. His memory wasn't so great so he did things in certain orders, sometimes repetitively. It helped him live on his own until age 91.

I was diagnosed with a brain illness that will eventually kill me. Doing things a certain way sometimes helps. OCD or my illness, who knows. Whatever works is ok with me.

Re: Use of the term OCD

Pook — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:42:36 GMT

We all have some mild form of OCD. When I read that and mentioned it at where I worked everyone denied it but we found out one did not want her food to touch when eating, others had a ritual when doing housework that was bizarre, another could never eat orange M & M's and picked them out before she ate the rest. One person ate food one item at a time during meals. I do not like my work to be in desk drawers and needed everything out in the open around my desk where I knew where everything was. Another had to have a perfectly bare desk even while leaving to go to the restroom or anywhere away from his desk. Then another had to start all over doing everything over each time being interupted at desk. Each one realized it was OCD and reflected on how it actually had an effect on their lives.