I have optimization ocd as a subtype, among a few, but I also have adhd. so if my house looks like this it’s because I haven’t found the fastest/easiest way to get it done to the point where it becomes too overwhelming to start.
2026-09-07 12:16:01
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Severe ocd is such a pain, cause you can leave your room like this for like weeks knowing very well you don't like it like this but at the same time don't want to clean. And the day you clean it you want nothing but silence and you enjoy doing it
2026-09-15 05:23:25
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Dominique :
I get so overwhelmed about it cuz if I clean it I will have to scrub every corner but if I leave it messy i don’t, if that makes sense
2026-09-07 09:28:33
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Lloyd🐉✨️ :
What’s my head looks like
2026-09-14 15:49:18
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MRC ♡ :
Does anyone else have the type of OCD where cleaning actually makes you feel dirty??? Which makes you avoid it?? It’s like I want to eliminate the dirtiness but freaks me out, I’d rather pay someone else to do it
2026-09-07 22:46:17
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Sam :
One time someone said “if you have ocd why is your car so messy?” Because my obsessions and compulsions take hours out of my day and leave me with no room to think or do anything else probably
2026-09-07 12:17:21
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belle 🍒🎀 :
that ocd and adhd combo is not for the weak im consumed by guilt bc of my intrusive thoughts but also bc im paralyzed from my adhd and don’t know how to start tasks
2026-09-07 18:24:07
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issys_privtiktok :
It’s is genuinely more common for ocd to look like this, ppl think of ocpd when they think of ocd
2026-09-15 07:28:18
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maqluhhhh :
so deep in rumination my house starts to look like my brain. a mess.
2026-09-07 13:29:29
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danielleccis :
and little do they know for me it’s actually that my room is so clean bacteria wise that these little piles CANNOT TOUCH OTHER THINGS so everything stays until i can get the mental capacity to disinfect to put things away
2026-09-07 02:41:29
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Cailyn💕🙃 :
Recently been finding out I might have it and my apartment is a disaster. I’m diagnosed with adhd, autism, cptsd and multiple kinds of anxiety… getting assessed for BPD and OCD. My brain is just a mess 😭
2026-09-14 21:07:25
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sofia🪻 :
my contamination ocd actively makes me avoid cleaning because EVERYTHING becomes dirty the second i take my eyes off it and then i convince myself i can’t touch it….it makes cleaning so overwhelming and distressing😖
2026-09-07 13:19:53
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i have pure O
2026-09-15 18:17:28
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m :
I have severe OCD and I’ve never heard anyone else talk about this. It’s so exhausting.
2026-09-07 16:23:56
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Em 🩷 :
I am so tired of people acting like everyone with OCD is clean. I am literally a mess. My life is an utter mess and it's largely due to my OCD. I am in a CONSTANT state of panic and fight or flight, and my priorities are not worrying about cleaning. My contamination OCD doesn't make me clean or wash my hands 20 times, it makes me not eat anything or be scared to shower because of the what ifs in the water. I don't have things organized and in place, but I need to know where all the knives in the house are because otherwise my brain convinces me me kids will accidentally get to one and hurt themselves. OCD is not some quirky too clean facade. It is a debilitating, exhausting illness that I wish on absolutely no one.
2026-09-08 23:41:31
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flowergarden_edits :
I couldn’t brush my teeth, wash myself, I couldn’t even drink and eat properly. 95% of my day time was making compulsions. In my dreams I was healthy and the only thing I enjoyed was sleeping
2026-09-07 21:48:37
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_eric444 :
I feel so seen. People assume OCD automatically equals extreme tidiness.
2026-09-07 17:53:34
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ribs :
ruminating takes up so much of my energy I run out of it to keep up with things. it makes me feel horrible
2026-09-07 13:30:42
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Chloè✌🏼 :
im so sick of feeling this way its embarrassing af but even when I put effort in it doesnt even feel like I made a dent of success
2026-09-07 20:06:37
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• marianna 🌸🩵 :
Cleaning gets so difficult when you know that some of it is contaminated..and then you have to wash your hands after and keeping going and going and going and going
2026-09-11 10:00:24
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Sarah Marie :
i get so overwhelmed and feel like a failure of a mom. My kids deserve better, I deserve better, but I just can't do it. I ask for help, I get complaints it's too much. I know it is, I live here and it's too much. I wanted to be a home where my kids friends felt safe.
2026-09-07 11:27:47
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Perry Yert :
Exactly, it has nothing to do with being clean and organized. Sometimes it’s so debilitating this is how our environment becomes..our minds are busy elsewhere
2026-09-07 04:25:35
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Graciegirl ⋆˚𝜗𝜚˚⋆ :
I have optimization OCD and contamination OCD. Meaning I struggle with choosing what to do and when to do it, and I don’t care about a mess as long as it’s not a GROSS mess. Like clutter is fine, germs are not.
2026-09-08 04:14:04
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lousassle_13 :
My mom thinks when my room is nice and tidy my ocd is at its peak but it’s actually when my room is the messiest that my ocd is taking the most control over me 😭
2026-09-08 23:19:32
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