Chris Baier
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307 appearances
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first heard Jan 2020
last heard Jan 2020
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Uh when she first started and OCD first was in our lives, she was fearful of poisons.
And um she became afraid of certain trees in our block that had bottles next to them and she immediately thought those were poisonous.
So she would um you know she would avoid them completely.
Um there were clothes that she couldn't wear, uh, and then she would, you know, wash her hands sometimes.
She would uh constantly ask us questions, seeking reinsurance that she's okay.
And that was kind of her um the obsession or the contamination was the issue.
And then the compulsion was asking us reassurance questions, you know, am I okay, am I alright, am I poisonous?
Is this gonna kill me?
Um so it
To your point earlier about
it being misunderstood.
A lot of people assume it's you know, the it's uh cleanliness or it's about being neat or, you know, somebody who likes things tidy.
Um and
It's so much more than that and it takes many different forms and
It's not anything I guess the thing I would say it's not anything you would ever wish on your enemy.
It's painful, it's torturous.
And you know, it's it's not a joke.
Uh one of our friends that we've met through the O C D community says, um, you know, O C D isn't an adjective.
And it kind of allows you to kind of realize that, oh, it's not something you want to put in place of.
You think you're it's not I'm so O C D it's I'm so anal and so meticulous of I'm so organized, uh, can be different and that's why it's I think it can get misunderstood.
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