This sub is becoming a hotbed for people with OCD (not trolling)

I respectfully disagree. OCD is enabled and actively worsened by expecting other people to accommodate it. It makes it worse for the person suffering the disorder, it because it normalizes it, but because OCD is triggered by powerful mental responses to an input (a person who cleans obsessively for example is triggered by the fact that cleaning prevents illness or death).

All the approaches to treating OCD focus on de-escalating the response, accepting and focusing on the fact that the perceived consequences are rare or inconsequential. The first thing you are taught is not to accept the symptoms but to say "what is really the worst that could happen?" The worst that could happen if I don't clean my kitchen is I could get food poisoning and throw up a bit, is that worth hours of my day compulsively cleaning?

Asking other people to adjust for you just mentally affirms that it is a serious issue which needs to be addressed community wise. That's the opposite of deescalating. Ive been in these relationships before and it really does not help in the least, it amplifies the significance of the triggering impulse and leads to an anxiety spiral.

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