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[Bowne]

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.

[Tori3569]

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.   

[Mz iMac]

@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.

[Tori3569]

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@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.

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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.  

[Nightowlz]

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.

[Mz iMac]

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.

[tl98466]

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

[Desertdi]

Car must be absolutely CLEAN with NOTHING in it

[Klimt]

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@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.

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It is called Compulsive Shopping Disorder.

[rms1954]

What isn't offensive?????