OCD in public. What do you do?

[Autumn77]

Hi all,

As we know, with a lot of mental disorders, people haveOCD tendencies. I just want to know, that I'm not the only one.

So I'll go first....at a supermarket, if a product is in the wrong spot, I pick it up, pretent to look at it, and then return it to its right spot. Ha!

[Mary_Ploppins]

Hi Geoff,

I have tried to tell someone in my family that while i am taking medication it does not make it stop,it just helps to reduce some of the compulsions a little even on the highest doses . It would be wonderful if we could just take a pill and no more OCD.

[geoff]

Hi Mary, thanks for your reply and I quite agree.

Best wishes.

Geoff.

[Quercus]

I apologise if anyone felt like my reply trivialises OCD symptoms.

My intention was simply to share my experience in the hope someone else felt less alone and encouraged to write.

My drive to tidy and organise comes from my own anxiety and feeling like I have to be helping or working somehow in order to be a worthwhile person or worth someone's time. It isn't simply a preference or a quirk. I keep busy so I don't just leave.

It has upset me a bit actually reading this. Not because I feel personally offended but because I feel like the discussion was just shut down and I'd hoped to read more from others. Not everyone has a formal diagnosis but that doesn't mean they don't have input to give.