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discussions of severe mental illness specifically ocd, self-harm and psych wards mentioned
Do people outside the OCD community even know that severe OCD exists and what it's like? I feel like this isn't common knowledge unless you're somewhat clued into the OCD world. I think even people who realize OCD is a disorder and don't use erroneously use the term to describe being organized don't know about how severe OCD can get. This thing is a spectrum from "life-disrupting but still functional" to "bedridden". Like, both my ex-girlfriend and my current best friend told me about periods of their life where they had OCD (or at least symptoms of OCD) but which passed for them. Meanwhile I'm out here with my life disrupted 24/7 by OCD and right now this is like, the best my OCD has been in several years.
When I was in my worst periods of OCD hell I genuinely felt like I was losing my grip on myself and reality. I spent days in bed just thinking and doing compulsions and spiraling. I considered checking myself into a psych ward because I was so scared of myself. The reason why I failed my first semester of college was because I couldn't read the assigned texts without my brain screaming at me because my class texts had become a focus point for my OCD. My brain could barely think any thoughts outside of OCD thoughts so I lost cognitive ability. I was self-harming as a compulsion. I was completely non-functional as a person.
I've heard a lot of other stories like this from other people with OCD and yet I feel like nobody knows this? Nobody knows that a common OCD experience is literally the feeling of becoming so convinced of the worst by your thoughts that reality starts to unravel around you? I wonder if I should make a post in the neurodiverse comm about OCD because I swear even well-meaning people do not know shit about this disorder.
I am currently wearing a skirt 
welp. not to completely spill the beans on my living situation but i think the only option i have left right now is to come out to my parents and move back in with them, in that order because I don't know if that will even work
shriveling up in his cool communist shrine of a house and not understanding why
