People living with OCD are unusually clean or want to know exactly what’s going to happen, so they plan meticulously. That is usually mistaken for being OCD in mainstream culture or in mainstream society.  Being very clean and wanting to know exactly how your day is not OCD but its usually some people being extra clean and extra smart when it comes to planning their time ahead they are just more pedantic and just want they have everything to the T.

And OCD is not reflective through the ordinary person through the cleaning of the hands, this is just one of those signs, but it can also be the intrusion of thoughts in in terms of one’s need to harm other people… so you might have unwanted thoughts that are intrusive to harm other people.  Some people are obsessed about their sexuality, numbers, symmetry etc.  Some times you find someone walking on specific blocks on the sidewalk… i.e. placing their feet on certain shaped blocks.  OCD is very rare.

  Is it only diagnosed as OCD if it is really impeding one’s general way of life or living when it prevents someone from working or going to school or having a normal social life so it can be diagnosed.