Hey "OCD" users,
I bet you're all self-diagnosed, read the OCD symptoms online, and figure that "oh, well sometimes I walk down the stairs weird I guess I am obsessive compulsive and OMG I HAVE TO DO DUMB SHIT X THAT BUGS EVERYONE AHAHAHA OCD MAKES ME QUIRKY AND INTERESTING"
Most of you don't have anything that sounds like OCD even a little bit. Most of you are just uptight teenagers with sticks up your asses. "I NEED TO CORRECT GRAMMAR QWUOBFUOBIF" "I HATE EVEN NUMBERS" "I GET HEADACHES"
I have OCD but I don't medicate it, mostly because as a fair few of you know I like smoking weed, drinking, and acid, and I don't think I'd like to see antidepressants mixed with illegal drugs. However, just from reading your symptoms I know you don't have the disorder. If you've never washed your hands raw red because otherwise you'd be consumed with some great, crushing fear of oncoming death or dirtiness, or wasted half an hour going up and down stairs because you missed the last step, you don't severe enough compulsions to have any reasonable need for treatment.
It sounds like the OP got butthurt over some infraction and decided that pretending to have extremely mild OCD was a get-out-of-jail-free card, Gen called bullshit, and the OP here made this thread as a passive-aggressive little jab back because he doesn't want to take his lumps.
Taylor, sorry bro but not everything is about weed...
Interesting fact: washing hands isn't the only symptom of OCD. If you knew anything about the disorder that you claim to have, you'd know that
everyone has it different.
Complications of mine include checking to make sure the door in my house is locked up to twenty times before going to bed, likewise with checking my alarm, all the lights in the house, and any faucets to make sure they're either on or not on. Nothing is worse than living with extreme paranoia. I also do this when I'm leaving a hotel or for school. I check probably a dozen times to make sure I've gotten everything.
The symmetry thing that I have to deal with causes me to lose all sense of focus and concentration, thus hurting me in school. Likewise for the fact that my obsessive nature when it comes to mistakes in speech and in academic problems causing me to lose all focus and become utterly consumed with the desire to correct someone in some way.
And I think it's really funny that you said "I GET HEADACHES" as if it's some kind of joke symptom that doesn't matter. Have you ever had a fucking migraine? It puts
professional athletes out for a week at a time. That's longer than even shit like a sprained ankle can do. I'm guessing that you just never have had a migraine, because when OCD symptoms cause someone to develop them, it's absolutely horrid. They will miss work, school, etc, and experience probably the worst week of their life. It's not some kind of joke.
And I have indeed been diagnosed by a psychiatrist. I don't use illegal drugs, so I'm using the anti-depressant I've been given, and it works quite well, but doesn't alleviate all symptoms, but it does take away some of the intense anxiety that leads to migraines and continued rituals. I still have the desire to do something, but it's not intense, and I'm not paranoid about shit.
And yes, this thread is indeed a bit of a passive-aggressive attack and a thread to stimulate discussion at the same time. My talks with Gen. Empoleon brought this subject to the forefront of my mind, and I thought it would be interesting to talk about it with the members of Smogon. I also can not STAND unjust infractions, so it bothers me. I can take a damn infraction on some silly internet forum, because I really don't give a fuck. But when something is unjust, no matter where it happens, I get pretty pissed off.
http://education-portal.com/education_needed_to_become_a_psychiatrist.html
lol? You're right, it takes no knowledge or anything of the sort to become a psychiatrist. Twelve years, getting into med school, and testing to actually get certified is a joke.
