for what it’s worth i fully disagree with you i’ve had ocd for as long as i can remember and it hasn’t been a cake walk at all times but i feel like ocd brings more positives than negatives into my life as a general statement i definitely wouldn’t have made varsity in highschool if i didn’t have ocd and knowing my general trend towards great swaths of apathy i think a lot of my schoolwork would have remained unfinished if i didn’t have ocd i know that it can be hard at times and even embarrassing a lot of my stuff is touching objects which can be very public but i really wouldn’t trade my brain for a brain that doesn’t have it i like myself and my ocd is a part of me maybe it’s different because i’ve always had it and it didn’t develop during puberty or something so me not having a sense of a what a day without it feels like might play a factor but i think gate keeping a mental disease based on if you hate it is dumb no offense but just because you didn’t ask for it it doesn’t mean it’s not a good thing   again i’m not saying everything has been great my first breakup probably sucked a lot more because my brain is great at focusing on one idea for days at a time when the ideas are things i don’t care about but literally everything has downsides you can’t be grateful for your hands but then not want them when they’re in pain it doesn’t work that way ocd has huge benefits that a lot of other mental disorders do not have ocd lets you focus and be driven on levels that other people literally cannot attain yes that has downsides like yesterday when i had to touch the pot that just burned me with my other hand but that’s just life i don’t resent my ocd