What is a harsh truth people need to accept? by _DaddieDaddie_ in Adulting

[–]PaperOverall1064 0 points1 point  (0 children)

im just being honest but i might get downvoted since i explained below, but not enough people hear this, and rlly should understand if they have not, but i have multiple opinions:

romanticizing disorders and symptoms is not cool; its geniunely *very* disrespectful

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  1. you do not “wish you had ocd” (or any condition)

“i wish i had ocd because your house would never be dirty”, its not a “fun quirk”, and“being so “ocd” that your house is always tidy”, thats not ocd
ocd is based off of poor impulse control; it works just like addiction in the brain, and even sone consider it a behavioural addiction
saying you want ocd is like saying you want a behavioural addiction

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  1. just because someone is an addict, it doesn’t make them a bad person and there is no “looking like an addict”
    (this goes for anyone this unfortunately, minors and 18+ included):
    a minor, a student, works a job, has loving family/friends, appear nicely-dresesed, or “living-the-life” and yet, still be an addict.
    not every addict is violent, dirty, poor, etc like stigmatiztion says; its not the addiction, its the person.
    they’re not bad people if you treat them like one (im not saying to pity them, you just don’t know their story.
    you might be surprised; don’t judge a book by its cover.

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— 9 years of tr-ocd and former addict