& it’s not just about cleaning, there are 5 main categories of OCD & “contamination” is one of them. In severe forms of OCD, the patient often end up causing harm to themselves as a result of their compulsive behaviour e.g develop skin rashes due to excessive washing. In ++ https://twitter.com/amnacasm/status/1313375860607651840
remuneration OCD, they hv to repeat a number or say a things a certain amount of time or else they can’t proceed. E.g. they must turn on-off the switch 5 times, must take 15 steps to get to the kitchen, must say a word 10 times & they just can’t help it. In OCD which deals with +
Symmetry & order, the person must arrange the items in front of them is absolute symmetry & order or else they cannot proceed. In some other cases, people keep coming back to their house from work to check if they locked the door or not despite knowing that they hv locked it but+
again, they cannot help with their compulsive thoughts & must do it.

OCD is not a standard to measure someone’s hygiene preference or superiority but it’s is a psychiatric/mental disorder which makes its patients suffer than making their life easier! 🙂
Just to clarify, this thread is not a dig at anyone’s OCD problem but merely suffers the purpose of providing information.

Just saw some tweets on the TL few peeps taking a jibe at someone’s OCD problem 🤦🏻‍♀️
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