For years, Timmy Reen tried to hide his compulsions and rituals from everyone at his New York City firehouse — until his secret was forced out in the open.
I feel like the worst thing about severe OCD would be, not just the disruption that comes from all severe mental disorders, but the banality of it.
Like this guy said, he wasted his life … by cleaning stuff. It’s basically Sisyphean, being condemned to spend your life in labor that you cannot actually ever finish, benefit from or retire from. To me that’s in its own tier along with things like severe agoraphobia. You’re basically healthy, except for this one paralyzing fear that makes you just watch other people and long for something you can’t have. But you appear healthy to everyone else, you’re not hallucinating or spouting the craziest shit, but inside you may as well be.
pr0xy_prime@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is ridiculous. I am a firefighter with the FDNY and and I shower after every fire, shower before I put my civilian clothe on and go home to my family. I wear my ask after the fire is out still until I run out of air and no one is breaking my balls. Even if they did I could care less, I’m not the one getting cancer because I wanna be perceived “macho”. This man has a legitemate psych condition and aparently thin skin because he is embarrased of his condition? We all make fun of each other on the job but that just a part of the brotherhood and tradition. Engine 329 goes to barely any fires, look up the numbers if you dont believe me. This information is available on the internet to everyone. This article is being overly dramatic. Unless you’re on the job you wouldn’t really understand. If the guys he worked with maliciously broke his balls then shame on them. I parked at that firehouse in the past while going to the beach and few guys I interacted with from there were assholes and im ON the job lol