I have OCD and have been in exposure therapy FOR YEARS with what overall seems like very little progress in managing this condition. I mean, I can work outside of my house and don’t starve because I am so afraid that someone touched, and therefore contaminated, my food, but my struggle with OCD is still a burden that…

I get that people who don’t live with OCD probably see this as yet another example of overinflated outrage. And as one who has fairly debilitating OCD, I’ll admit that I’m offended and exhausted by this stupid sweater but not necessarily furious. The question I’d like to ask those telling me to just brush it off…

You know what’s “cute?”

I don’t think the two are the same. This is the continued trivialization of a really seriously mental illness and the red cup is... a cup... that is lacking snow flakes?

I think the real problem is that everyone just throws out the “I have OCD because I keep my house clean” or the like. At this point, do the majority of humans even know what actual OCD entails? The illness has turned into a joke.

I’m done being really offended with this and am in the BORED NOW stage. Seriously. Because every time I try to explain to someone why OCD isn’t funny, they tell me how they like their DVDs in alphabetical order which makes them like, totally OCD too soooo.....

Rage. Rage stroke.I want to tell him to try having…

“cars are very complex compared to phones or smartwatches.” Which, I suppose, depends on the car and the phone.