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Originally Posted by Ridureyu
"OCD" as in severe clinical Obsessive-compulsive disorder, the kind that precludes most functioning in society.
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I guess that's part of my issue...what you're describing there is a rather narrow and extreme representation of the disorder as a whole - and I am thinking of it in entirely clinical terms (one of my pet peeves is when people casually refer to their behaviour as "obsessive compulsive", when all they are really talking about is being a little bit fussy or habitual). OCD can be a very difficult and emotionally painful thing to experience; nonetheless, the majority of sufferers do not become Howard Hughes-style recluses, and are capable of leading perfectly ordinary lives. Defining the disorder by the rarer, more extreme examples, to me, seems like something of an unfair generalisation...though I know that that is not your intent.
Eh, sorry to get too far off topic there.
