Devastating

Washing your hands

Checking the locks

Labelling your cans

Sorting your socks

You call them all

Your ‘OCD’

But you’ve got no idea

What it really means

All The 8’s

And so it begins

The incessant counting

The overthinking

The fear mounting

That impending doom

Will certainly strike

If I do not get

This pattern right

(Originally Posted 25.01.2021)

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  1. What happened to good old-fashioned perfectionism? Isn’t that what we used to call those things lol. Or should do anyway.

    And of course a person with OCD can have these perfectionist tendencies, alongside and separately to what they’d describe as OCD.

    Still too many OCD resources go straight into hand-washing as the first in a list of examples, which strengthens the misconception.

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  3. I am glad I don’t experience OCD myself. I learned from some of my clients who suffer OCD that their obsessions can be vastly different, definitely not just the washing hands, locking doors or colour coordinating clothes.

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