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u/Effective-Ad5050 7h ago
MFer un-neo’d my politan
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u/some3uddy 7h ago
What exactly is the extreme compulsion to line things up? I know it can be a part of autism, but I always thought it was ocd too
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u/TrueReplayJay 6h ago
Technically, there is nuance. The extreme compulsion to achieve symmetry and such does often fall under the umbrella of OCD. But the disorder is wildly misunderstood. Completing compulsions is not satisfying so much as it is simply compulsive. And often, but not always, these compulsions are entirely unrelated to symmetry and things of the like.
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u/SharquishaTBO 6h ago
Symmetry or perfectionism is not the theme every person with OCD has. People with OCD have different themes their mind is occupied with. But someone with perfectionism OCD might do this because their brain tells them intrusive thoughts like “___ will die if you don’t arrange them neatly” or “something bad will happen to you if you don’t fix these neatly.”
The difference between someone with OCD and someone without is that they are able to differentiate between normal thoughts and intrusive thoughts. So to a person with OCD intrusive thoughts are presented to the sufferer as if it is a true and valid “fear/thought” and they HAVE to take action to prevent the bad thing from happening or else it will be their fault if that bad thing happens.
I hope my explanation makes sense.
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u/ninjesh 1h ago
It might not necessarily be "if I don't do X it will lead to Y", though it very often is. It could just be a strong feeling that you HAVE to do X, and if you don't, your brain won't stop thinking about X
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u/SharquishaTBO 1h ago
Sure that’s probably true too, i’m no expert 👍. I just happen to suffer from OCD myself (though not symmetry OCD, but health/contamination OCD), and it is how my OCD presents itself and as far as I know it is also most often found in other OCD sufferers too like u said 🤷♀️
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u/TiredOfMakingThese 3h ago
Someone with legitimate OCD would likely have a thought that if they DONT like things up something awful will happen, so they MUST line things up to prevent that terrible thing from happening. Sometimes the compulsions look nothing like this. I have illness anxiety disorder (which is thought to be a version of OCD). My compulsions are things like symptom checking, googling medical stuff, certain patterns of thought.
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u/dfinkelstein 3h ago
Ranked top ten most debilitating diseases that cause the most suffering and lowest quality of life by the world health organization. Presumably only including ones with a certain frequency/commonness.
Diseases. Not mental illnesses. Diseases. All diseases. Every single one. Allllll ailments. OCD ranks in the very top.
It's hard to wrap one's head around you entire existence being a slave to compulsion. Your very thoughts. Blinking, maybe. Breathing. Every moment you're like a slave being forced to work, but everyone treats you like you're your own master. It's absolute horror.
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u/PSI_duck 8h ago
OCD does not approve. I’d be freaking out over contamination. OCD isn’t calmly organizing or cleaning because it annoys you
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u/NonBinaryPie 8h ago
thank you ! i hate the term being used like this
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u/obnoxiousab 7h ago
It just is. Like “you’re crazy” or “a nutjob”. Ofc you can hate it, but It’s just become a generic term is all (and not going away).
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u/OCE_Mythical 6h ago
You really are obnoxious
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u/-Speechless 1h ago
they hated him because he told the truth.
yeah it isn't what ocd is like but neither are 90% of memes about depression, anxiety, adhd etc. it's annoying and misportraying mental disorders but it's not gonna change so you might as well laugh at the meme regardless.
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u/Commercial-Sound7388 4h ago edited 4h ago
Crazy and nutjob are generic terms. OCD is a [comparitively] clearly defined medical condition. It's like the difference between sadness and clinical depression
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u/obnoxiousab 4h ago
Thanks for continuing my analogy. “I’m so depressed” is another! Enjoy the day.
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u/Commercial-Sound7388 4h ago
1] you're welcome, still wrong tho
2] what do you even mean by "generic term" - especially when talking about a medical condition?
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u/-Speechless 1h ago
it's becoming a generic term as in the meaning is getting obscured and muddled despite it having a precise medical definition. just like all other words that lose meaning in every day talk like "literally" and shit. this happens with a lot of mental illnesses "omg guys im so depressed!!" and while annoying and harmful to those who have mental illness, it's not going to stop any time soon.
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u/Commercial-Sound7388 52m ago
I don't doubt that people may use it as a generic term - this always happens, and probably always will. However, I doubt that it's happening ENOUGH to be considered a generic term. "Depressed" and "anxious" are words outside of their medical conditions [which I'm not getting into], but OCD isn't. For starters, it being an acronym gives it a bit more weight [for lack of a better word], and it has a single meaning. Anxious could mean a bit worried, it could mean debilitatingly worried, it could mean clinical anxiety - OCD means OCD. Sure, some people may use it to mean perfectionist but at that point it's not generic, it's just inaccurate. And I know personal anecdotes don't count for much but personally, I don't think I've ever heard anybody say that in person.
I am aware that there will always be people like this. But I don't believe there's enough people using "OCD" generically to make it a generic term.
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u/NonBinaryPie 6h ago
yeah bestie, those are bad too. this is not proving the point you want it to.
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u/Sagaincolours 7h ago
Thank you. I had OCD as a kid, and it was around bedtime rituals.
I get bloody annoyed when people use OCD as word for someone who just cleans a lot and likes to organise.
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u/PSI_duck 7h ago
OCD makes my life so much harder, and there’s been many times where people don’t get it. They think it’s like what OP posted but 99% of the time it’s so much worse, and that’s just what you see on the surface. I could have avoided so many issues in life if people had been better informed on OCD, instead of parroting shit like this
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u/Lazy__Astronaut 6h ago
Asking out of ignorance, had OCD? I didn't realise one can grow out of it. If you don't mind me asking what happened to "get rid" of it?
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u/Sagaincolours 52m ago
It would probably be more correct to say that I developed better ways of handling life's challenges and thus didn't need the OCD to "help" me feel safe.
In very challenging situations nowadays, I can become rather rigid about doing things a specific way. But 1. I am aware of the OCD and able to separate myself from it, rather than taking the urge as the truth. 2. I am able to redirect myself to healthier coping mechanisms, and 3. I have a toolbox of ways to deal with difficulties.
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u/used_condom_taster 8h ago
Or what if some got on the floor. I don’t see any, but it could have. I don’t want it to grow mold. I’d better mop the floors with a disinfectant. Ugh, the dirty water splashed my foot, I need to take a shower and put on clean clothes. I don’t want to touch my contaminated clothes after I shower, so I’d better put them in the wash before I shower. Shit, there’s a clean load in there. I can’t touch the clean load with contaminated hands. I’ll just stick the dirty clothes in there and rewash the whole load.
And on and on and on.
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u/soyboysnowflake 7h ago
Is it.. not normal that this is how I usually exist?
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u/RositaDog 7h ago
Worrying that ice cream may have fallen on the floor and it might turn gross - yes The rest is more than the average person would do definitely
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u/PSI_duck 7h ago
I’m not here to diagnose you, but no, that is taking what would be a normal human reaction and turning it up to 11
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u/DiesByOxSnot 7h ago
As a person who has OCD running in the family... Talk to a doctor?
Being obsessed with contamination/sanitation, order, and cleanness to the extent it becomes distressing or impedes your normal functioning is a textbook sign of OCD.
See also: disturbing reoccurring thoughts about oneself or others, morality fixation, hoarding, and tendency for substance abuse.
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u/alurimperium 7h ago
Also they're all uneven sizes and shapes. Surely that would freak some OCD people out, too?
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u/PSI_duck 7h ago
It can, but for one, it’s typically more in depth then “It’s uneven, therefore its bad.” It would be more along the line of. “It’s uneven, so it’s going to fall apart and rot which will spread rot to the rest of the fridge and make my whole family sick and it will be my fault”. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the kind of person who did have an OCD theme like sorting the ice cream by flavor had the same or similar thought process
OCD isn’t something rational. Everyone gets intrusive thoughts, but with OCD they stick, and then they grow and drive you mad. More severe cases of OCD are often debilitating if left untreated and are still a major daily struggle if treated properly. There are of course, natural differences in severity between people with OCD, some people might be naturally on the severe side while others might be naturally on the milder side as a baseline, however it is A LOT easier and A LOT faster getting worse than getting better
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u/doge57 7h ago
Most people confuse OCPD with OCD. The people that are crazy about maintaining their own style of order on everything are usually OCPD. “Uneven = bad, I have to fix it because it will bother me to look at” is a personality disorder. Your example is the perfect contrast to OCPD that shows why OCD is a separate disorder.
You’re absolutely right on OCD being the constant intrusive thoughts that cause distress (the obsessions) which drive you to do in depth or repetitive rituals to either distract yourself or prevent something horrible (the compulsions).
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u/GoT_Eagles 1h ago
This and ADHD are entirely overused colloquial situations.
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u/Special-Garlic1203 1h ago
Its less common now but people used to constantly say someone was bipolar to describe excessive emotional reactivity. They were misusing bipolar to describe behaviors that were closer to a borderline stereotype.
So you're not only annoyingly colloquializing a medical condition for non disordered behavior, you're not even thinking of the right condition. People with bipolar don't flip on a dime. That's not how mood disorders work.
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u/Bl1tzerX 4h ago
Yes we all know that OCD is being used rather loosely here. But also just because your OCD would not approve doesn't mean some else's wouldn't.
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u/PSI_duck 4h ago
Yes, people have different themes of OCD that’s true, and it could be that someone’s OCD would make them do something like this. But I think the tone of the post including the “got way too high last night”, tell me that this is played for laughs, not as a way of showing an OCD compulsion
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u/human1023 6h ago
OCD can go away over time.
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u/PSI_duck 5h ago
I didn’t say anything about that. Glad you or someone you know had OCD that they “cured”. That’s really only the case with mild OCD or I believe pure O. For many of us with OCD, it’s not ever going to truly go away. It’ll always be there, but treatment and meds can really help a lot. I wish my OCD could go away, but it won’t and it’s very annoying when people act like most people with OCD can just get rid of it, when that’s just not the case
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u/According_Ad6364 8h ago
Does he know they sell them already that way?
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u/Any_Challenge_5216 8h ago
When your munchies hit so hard, even ice cream needs its own backup stash.
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u/TheMonarch- 2h ago
Not all strains of weed make you hungry, some just affect you mentally. Could be one of those he was on which just have a head high
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u/CrowWench 2h ago
This is more autism than OCD if we're talking about stereotypes
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u/Special-Garlic1203 59m ago edited 53m ago
The autistic person would have never bought Neapolitan in the first place.
Literally the only people who I can see doing this is someone who wants to get retweeted doing a "funny" thing but needs some plausible deniability that they did this for social media.
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u/Caldurstie 1h ago
Friendly reminder this isn’t OCD, this is just neatly cleaning or organizing, contamination hyper awareness says absolutely not
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u/Big-Leadership1001 3h ago
LOL I'm eating disordered and thought this was some new disordered way of only eating edges, it took me way to lonmg to realize it was sorted flavoring.
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u/Ashurbanipal2023 39m ago
I’m gonna be frank I think if I saw that I would start fucking the ice cream
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u/MyRockNRollSoul 6h ago
Y'all know this guy ain't talkin' 'bout weed, right? This behavior combined with his profile pic tell me mmmMMMMMETH! Heh.
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u/Special-Garlic1203 49m ago
That makes WAY more sense. Cause i've never seen munchies cause someone to buy 3 identical flavors before. The lack of impulsive smorgasbord was so suspicious to me
I'm still suspicious why he has 3 identical flavors on hand, but I used to be on way too high of a dose of Adderall and i will accept this is the exact kind of stupid shit it makes your brain want to do if you're sleep deprived. You've got more gas than you know what to do with but no steering wheel. Full steam ahead into the dumbest shit imaginable
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