OCD can be a debilitating, life-destroying illness, but each time the term is used for pencil tidiness, the general public takes actual sufferers of OCD a little less seriously. That slide then contributes to an already huge understanding gap between the normies and the genuinely mentally ill. The normies wonder what the big deal is with untidy pencil storage, while the mentally ill are made to feel that they’re exaggerating their problems. This, in turn, leads to less treatment and worse health.
