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[quote=Anonymous]I think we've become too sensitized on the topic.

People throw mental health related terms around so much in relation to normal emotional responses that they've lost some of their importance.

I'm a MH professional. I hear so many people say "I'm really OCD about..." or "I'm so OCD I must..." and then they describe situations that are not related to OCD.

Ex:
Friend: I'm so OCD. I have to fix my coffee in a certain order each morning. Sugar, coffee, then creamer. 
Me: What happens if you do it out of order? 
Friend: nothing
Me: So if I forced you to do it out of order, you could and you could still drink the coffee? 
Friend: yeah, I'm just really OCD about the order
Me (not verbally to them): that's not OCD. A person with OCD will dump the coffee upon realizing they did it out of order and start over. Or if provided a beverage that was prepared by someone else in the wrong order, they will pretend drink it but not actually drink it.

Or people say "I'm so OCD about my books! They have to be in color order!" No, that's a preference. You have a strong preference on how you like your books organized. If someone messed with them as a joke, you'd be annoyed and work on fixing them, but maybe not right at that moment. A person with OCD might have a meltdown and would not be able to focus on anything else until all books were corrected.

Even my own kid came to me and said "I'm so depressed..." ok, that's alarming. We talked it out. They were not depressed. They were simply sad. They were sad that a show they enjoyed was canceled. Depression is not simple sadness.

We need to get kids comfortable with feeling emotions again and have them understand that feeling sad doesn't make you depressed. Feeling anxious before a test or presentation doesn't mean you have anxiety. Liking things organized doesn't mean you have OCD or autism. [/quote]

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