Introduction: The Joke That Hides a Disorder You’ve heard it before — probably said it yourself. You line up your pens, color-code your apps, arrange things on your desk just so. And then you laugh: “I’m so OCD.” But here’s the thing: that joke, however lighthearted, has quietly become one of the biggest barriers to understanding a genuinely debilitating psychiatric condition. Clinical Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is not a personality quirk. It is not the same as being detai

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