it makes the actual disorder seem like a joke and when you try to explain the actual seriousness and awfulness of it people don’t take it seriously and they see it as something good to have it needs to stop   i mean don’t get me wrong it’s good to laugh at yourself every once in a while i can take a joke - but most of the people that hold this perspective about ocd truly do believe that it’s only a matter of cleanliness and organization and nothing more they disregard and sometimes don’t even believe the very real and very crippling aspect of this disorder   in reality it’s a mess - a mess in our heads that no matter how many times we ruminate and “reassure” ourselves with self-destructive ritualistic behaviour it will never fix it - it only makes things worse it’s nothing to be proud of or looked up to   it’s surely a mental disorder and we need to be taken seriously more than we need to be joked about