This is such a great piece, thank you for writing it Kate. As a fellow OCD sufferer, I also became irritated when I hear people toss around that phrase. Recently a co-worker told me that she has OCD but that it 'doesn't affect [her] life much' and even that she 'quite like[s] it because it's useful'. What followed was a frank discussion of what OCD actually is, so that she could understand that she in fact doesn't have it. She likes things to be neat and tidy, and it has never had a debilitating affect on her.