@faraday said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
The impediment to your function does not need to be serious to qualify as OCD.
Depending on how one defines seriousness. If it impacts your life in a negative way that is not easily disregarded or routed around, that's a serious impediment.
@faraday said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I'm just saying that it is possible to have a mild, non-debilitating form of these disorders.
To be a disorder, it has to be debilitating in some way.
@faraday said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
check out Psychology Today
Psychology Today is a 'popular psychology' magazine, it's not a peer-reviewed journal. And I certainly wouldn't simply take the word of someone that just so happens to be advertising his book on a related subject. ETA: Especially when the author in question is "a Professor of Communication Studies, presenter, private coach, and author," and not a psychiatrist.
I will, however, draw from the DSM-IV (I haven't managed to justify getting the fifth edition just yet):
"DSM-IV Definition of Mental Disorder
Features
A
a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual
B
is associated with present distress (e.g., a painful symptom) or disability (i.e., impairment in one or more important areas of functioning) or with a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom"
@packrat said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
'I was made redundant once and I was so depressed for a few weeks!' or 'I was so depressed when my mother died!'
One must remember that 'simply' being depressed and having depression are very different. When bad or unfortunate things happen, people become depressed, without suffering from a depression disorder. So, they're right.