Help me understand OCD?

[ilovelost]

First off, let me just say, sorry if anyone finds this offensive in anyway.
There's a girl in the ED unit who says she doesn't have an eating disorder, she just suffers from OCD and was stuck in a rutine where she'd go all day without eating and only eat at like 10pm at night and everyday she'd have to walk and do physio and pilates etc. etc.

Anyway, I'm finding it really REALLY hard not to be mad at this girl for a lot of the things she keeps doing which are upsetting everybody at the unit. Eg. waking everyone up in the morning showering an hour before anyone's meant to be up, pacing round the garden when it's against the rules and makes every feel uncomfortable, ALWAYS having to be the first in the shower/bath/toilet every night and every morning, telling everyone to hurry up eating so that we finish exactly on time and a whole bunch of other stuff.

The staff members get annoyed too but they keep telling us "Everything annoying about her is her illness" And I'm just trying to be understanding and I'm trying not to get mad at her but I really don't get why she's like this. Is it her OCD or is she just really annoying? Can anyone help me understand OCD a bit more?

Wow sorry for the essay.

[barely_there]

this is about the best way to describe it...
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haha, regardless of what your "compulsion" is, it still works pretty similar to how the video describes it. i have weird issues with touching certain spots on my face, and i freak out if i can't do it. when i'm in a situation where i know it's inappropriate to do my "compulsions," i literally cannot focus on anything else.

that being said, i'd want to punch that girl in the face...just because i have ocd, doesn't mean that i'd be tolerant to something like that. having compulsions of your own is one thing, but directly involving others seems obnoxious to me. i don't mean that to be rude, but it's my honest opinion as someone diagnosed with it.

A&E also made a really good show, called Obsessed. It's all about people living with OCD. You can youtube full episodes :)
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[ilovelost]

Thanks, those videos were both really helpful (And the black guy in a tutu one kindof funny). I didn't realise what a struggle OCD is. But it's nice to know that I'm not being a complete bitch when I get annoyed by this girl. It's hard in a place like that to confuse finding a person really irritating and finding a person's illness really irritating. Just got to remind myself, it's not her, it's her illness.
Thanks :)