i also agree and disagree with this   if someone claims to like their ocd because it makes them organized or extra clean then probably they don’t actually have clinical ocd  but i’m someone with pure o and i do think i’m happy to have had it   i think that would have been a difficult thing for me to say when i was in the middle of ocd but now that i’ve worked really hard to manage it i can accept that i have it and appreciate how it can improve me  1 it shows me how much i care about my loved ones a lot of my obsessions were about hurting them and highlights my values  2 it makes me more empathetic to people who are struggling for instance a mentally ill woman asked me to help her rip off the sole of one of her shoes last week long story did make sense i think in the past i would have felt too uncomfortable but when i talked to her i felt like—i get how someone with a more severe illness could end up in your situation and i feel for you so we hung out for an hour and i’m like—i never would have done that a year ago  3 the more comfortable i become with the uncomfortableunknown for ocd i find it bleeding into the rest of my life i can do things i would have been too scared to like i accepted a promotion i had been rejecting for years i think it overall makes me a braver person  4 i think it makes me more interesting experiencing something like this seems to help develop your personality you know i like myself better having had it than i liked the girl who had never had it  so do i think i’m happier when i was in the middle of an ocd bout oh god no but now that i manage it i am happy i havehad it