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[quote=Anonymous]I don't think the nanny has OCD. Being a neat freak is not the same as OCD. I am so tired of people minimizing what OCD is...and it is rampant these days that people think they know what true OCD is. There are varying levels of OCD, and if someone can hold a job, they don't have a the kind of debilitating OCD that can affect kids. My husband is a neat freak. He does not have OCD.

And as the other poster said, OCD is not always about being neat. OCD is about doing rituals that one can't control repetitively. If you are talking about cleaning as one manifestation, that could mean cleaning the same spot 10 or 20 times before being able to move and do another activity.

My mom has a bad case of OCD, has always refused medication, and I turned out fine. (And her OCD is the kind that she could never hold a job because her obsessive compulsive rituals take all day...oh, and she is not a neat freak. She washes her hands until they are raw but that is the end of anything dealing with cleanliness with her OCD.

The immediate previous poster got it exactly right with the doorknob example. When I was 8 years old, I saw my mother count to three multiple times before opening a door. That was odd. That was OCD.

Having everything super clean and organized? That is just being someone who likes everything in order. Not OCD.

I think you are just not used to someone who is extremely neat. I'd take that over a messy nanny any day. (I have the messier kind who does not pick up around the house and then I find myself doing it after work).[/quote]

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