Stop saying you’re so OCD …

You’re not OCD; you’re just using it as an excuse and making it harder for me to get people to understand.

Call me names, I don’t care, but whenever someone uses the phrase, I’m so OCD about that, I want to throttle them. I want to shake them and give them an hour in my head.

Why is it okay to use mental illness as adjectives? Would you say, oh, I get so cancerous about that? Would you laugh at someone with cancer? And it isn’t just OCD; it’s all the other mental illnesses. Every time they’re used to describe something, the severity of them are weakened, and so often, the person really suffering keep quiet because other people think the illness is now nothing.

I was watching a talk by a man who had anorexia, and someone had said to him, they know the cure for that. And she had gone and got him a bag of crisps (potato chips if you’re American) This is an example of how easy people think mental illness is to overcome. Like they’re quick fixes, and part of the problem is mental illness is often used to make jokes, to describe situations or traits people have.

And what’s with the OCD memes? They show things out of place, and then there are all these…