OP With OCD Turns To Reddit After Dog Bowl Debacle

Mental health has been a contentious topic in the news for a long time now. For some reason, instead of real, productive discussion about mental health in the media, a lot of the time we only see sensationalized portrayals of different types of mental illnesses. And it's not just on the news that this is happening either. Some TV shows and movies do an alright job discussing mental illness, but at the end of the day, we prefer to look at media sources like Reddit to see actual feedback from the real human beings that are suffering. This week, that Reddit research allowed us to learn something new about OCD, and about what to look out for when living with a partner who is suffering.

Apparently, the woman who created this post suffers from OCD, and although she's in therapy and on medication she is still struggling. Her husband and kids sound super accommodating, and they've been doing everything that her therapist asks. However, when the wife caught her husband scrubbing the dog's food bowl with one of the scrub brushes she uses for the human dishes, she blew a gasket. That led to a monster fight, and then that led to her turning to Reddit for advice.

Comments on the post ran the gamut with different types of opinions, and we've included a number of them below. However, what the most poignant comments seemed to come down to is the fact that OP is making her husband and her children pay for her still untreated mental illness. There's nothing wrong with who she is as a person, and there's not even anything wrong with her being upset with his actions. The crux of what's wrong here is the way she handled the situation, as is almost always the case. Check out what we mean down below!

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Oh Boy, Here We Go

So as OP starts out her post, she already admits that she's feeling like an AH. We're not sure why she still felt the need to post this online then, considering the whole point of the thread is to tell someone whether they should feel like an AH, but we digress. Still, sounds like this lady has a lot bigger issues than just where she posts online.

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That's A Bit Harsh, No?

If this sounds like a bit of an extreme reaction to you, then you know exactly how we felt when we read the post. Still, maybe you're in the opposite boat and you think she was totally justified. If that's the case, maybe you can come over and do our dishes for us too?

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Still Seems A Bit Harsh

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This Person Agrees

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It Sounds Hard!

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A Soft YTA

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We Found This Interesting Too

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We Concur As Well

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Sorry To Tell You, But

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OCD Should Be The Least Of Her Worries

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