The unseen
Yesterday I was in a meeting with people I love and while we were working through the details of the event someone jokingly said, yeah I'm OCD about that. I felt my heart sink. I knew that the phrase carries with it a complex layering of emotions and rules that cannot be merely dismissed. I knew everyone laughed and we all knew what that meant. It meant that we had a finite way of approaching that particular area. We've all heard it, we've used it as a way to dismiss a sense of rigidity in our organization, time and schedules. I'm a person of structure, organization and schedules and in the past I've used the term myself but in the last year, I've come to understand I can no longer use the simple acronym as a way to describe my personality. The things that you cannot are the very things that are impacting the person's everyday existence. OCD is deeper than someone holding onto every single piece of trash, purchasing items that may seem useless an