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by LocalH 1866 days ago
How do you know that they were trivializing anything? Perhaps they have been diagnosed with OCD and this is one of the ways it manifests?
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It’s possible but very unlikely. In my experience, people who suffer from OCD almost never say things like “sorry I have an ocd need to do X”, since people who have OCD know the true depth of OCD is not in the compulsions but rather the obsessions and intrusive/distorted thoughts that lead to them. The mainstream view that OCD is primarily characterized by things like “I need to arrange things according to a certain way” is not accurate. (Hence the comment in the first place)