My nephew Tim, had OCD since he was very small. The older he grew, the more the symptoms manifest themselves, and oh how he struggled. Difficult to hide, the symptoms and related behaviors grew more and more noticeable to all those around him. Unfortunately his peers, those in his school and neighborhood, derided his behavior and called him names. At age 13, in desperation, he climbed over a fence and ran in to a 3 lane expressway. Yeah, OCD is a pretty funny disease…hope ya’ll enjoyed the funny picture
i don’t find it amusing either.
sorry Jonko.
i love your website and am a daily visitor but i find this as unfunny as a rascist/sexist/any other kind of ist joke.
OCD is a horrible illness and needs more people to be a little more understanding about it.
i know first hand how crippling this affliction can be.
i have OCD, as does my sister.
our lives are ruled and ruined by compulsions.
my sister can’t step out of her house.
my hands are scarred and permanently scabbed from repetitive handwashing.
While I sympathise with your dismay, I find your comparison to racism somewhat crass.
Nobody ever got hung from a tree for OCD. People are not oppressed, excluded and criminalised en masse for compulsive behaviour, no matter how horrible it must be to suffer from. Nobody ever gassed a village of repetitive handwashers.
There is no therapy for race, there is no ‘cure’ for race. Race cannot be ‘managed’. You do not have good and bad race days.
Your condition is indeed terrible to live with, but please don’t belittle far greater wrongs to make a point.
My nephew Tim, had OCD since he was very small. The older he grew, the more the symptoms manifest themselves, and oh how he struggled. Difficult to hide, the symptoms and related behaviors grew more and more noticeable to all those around him. Unfortunately his peers, those in his school and neighborhood, derided his behavior and called him names. At age 13, in desperation, he climbed over a fence and ran in to a 3 lane expressway. Yeah, OCD is a pretty funny disease…hope ya’ll enjoyed the funny picture
i don’t find it amusing either.
sorry Jonko.
i love your website and am a daily visitor but i find this as unfunny as a rascist/sexist/any other kind of ist joke.
OCD is a horrible illness and needs more people to be a little more understanding about it.
i know first hand how crippling this affliction can be.
i have OCD, as does my sister.
our lives are ruled and ruined by compulsions.
my sister can’t step out of her house.
my hands are scarred and permanently scabbed from repetitive handwashing.
While I sympathise with your dismay, I find your comparison to racism somewhat crass.
Nobody ever got hung from a tree for OCD. People are not oppressed, excluded and criminalised en masse for compulsive behaviour, no matter how horrible it must be to suffer from. Nobody ever gassed a village of repetitive handwashers.
There is no therapy for race, there is no ‘cure’ for race. Race cannot be ‘managed’. You do not have good and bad race days.
Your condition is indeed terrible to live with, but please don’t belittle far greater wrongs to make a point.