thank you for this post i think so many of us can relate to the invalidating and to be blatant truly stupid response of “but you’re pretty messy sometimes” when you tell somebody you have ocd as a person with harm ocd i am also saddened by the way the disorder is portrayed in the media and how far society is from having even a general understanding it’s insane to me that everybody has heard of ocd yet it feels like only people who have the disorder have any actual clue about it personally i do not do things like clean in excess or repetitively or lock my doors 7 times etc and it’s exhausting to know it’ll be decades before ocd is known to be anything more than these actions