Lament of the Mind

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4 Psychological Terms That You’re Using Incorrectly

Common use like this really makes it hard when someone DOES have a problem. There’s a stigma and assumptions attached.

Having OCD is really hard because you’re like “I have OCD” and people say “yeah I do too” and it’s just “no I have OCD.”

“OMG I am *so* OCD!”

“You have OCD? Then you understand why some nights I don’t sleep. I just wander around the house, exhausted, feeling all the electric outlets for heat and smelling for possible fires. You totally get why I would have an impulse to do that, as you have your own ritualistic behaviors and obsessive thoughts that control your entire life?”

“What? LOL NO THAT’S CRAZY.”

EXACTLY.

Yes. Please do not use terms like this flippantly; many if not most mental health conditions have no outwards signs, so it’s best never to assume you’re not around someone who is/has suffered (lol did that sentence make any sense). Wanting a neat house is not necessarily OCD; being exuberant is not necessarily manic, having bright wallpaper is not schizophrenic yes I actually heard that one recently.

Agree so much :S It also makes it harder to get help or recognize that you need help when people make assumptions/throw around terms. In example, if people assume that ocd is nothing more then being neat and tidy, then they’ll be dismissive and tell someone who has genuine ocd to ‘get over it’. Because whilst the sufferer is plucking up the courage to talk about something that terrifies them to acknowledge, the other person assumes they are referring to something trivial, or as said above, assume that person could never possibly have ocd because they dont fit that stereotype.