Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a stressful mental disorder characterized by rituals and irrational fears.
A person with OCD
may be unable to leave their house without checking to make sure every
door is locked
12 times or be unable to turn on a light switch without flicking it multiple times until it feels right.
There are many different types of OCD; however, liking your things to be orderly and not being messy does not
mean you have OCD.
Person 1: "Oh my
God I'm soooo OCD. I always keep my room clean."
Person 2: "I actually have OCD and I can't leave my house or even open the
door without having to
bleach my entire house to avoid death by harmful bacteria."
Person 1 "I'm so OCD, I order my pencils on my desk to make them look
pretty."
Person 3: "I've actually been diagnosed with OCD and it took me ten minutes to
walk into this classroom because I had to step on all of the lines perfectly and walk around the desks in a specific order just to be able to sit down without having a panic attack."
Person 1: "Ew, that M&M is a different color than the other M&M'
s. I'm so OCD, I'm going to take it out."
Person 4: "I actually have OCD and I have to organize every item in my house perfectly all of the
time because of the irrational fear that my family and friends will die or leave me."