# "Here are seven things 'everybody knows' about my illness that just aren't true.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 8, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-are-seven-things-everybody-knows-about-my-illness-that-just-arent-true/355914 "2006-05-08T16:56:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-are-seven-things-everybody-knows-about-my-illness-that-just-arent-true/355914/101 "2006-05-18T15:44:59Z")

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**Greywolf** :

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> I have OCD also. You covered the list so well that I don’t have much to add except for the following.
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> You seem a lot better-can’t you stop taking the medication now? Uhh, I’m better because I’m taking the meds. OCD isn’t curable. If I stop I’ll revert back to OCD mode.

Would it be bad form to stare at them and say “I just _can’t stop_ taking the pills. Every morning, at exactly the same time. I have to take them, I _have_ to…” ?

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**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-are-seven-things-everybody-knows-about-my-illness-that-just-arent-true/355914/102 "2006-05-18T17:15:20Z")

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[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat]  
Yeah, some people do. It’s amazing how little your average person on the street knows about cancer.  
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Every day, something new confirms my beliefs that people are, in fact, stupid.

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**Author:** ![Green\_Means\_Go](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@Green\_Means\_Go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Means_Go)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-are-seven-things-everybody-knows-about-my-illness-that-just-arent-true/355914/103 "2006-05-18T18:02:42Z")

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[QUOTE=Greywolf73]

**You seem a lot better-can’t you stop taking the medication now?** Uhh, I’m better because I’m taking the meds. OCD isn’t curable. If I stop I’ll revert back to OCD mode.  
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When I first started talking Luvox for my OCD the doctor mentioned that there was some hope that if it was treated for a year or so it really might just go away on its own.

This hasn’t proven true for me (although I am lucky in that only a small dose of Luvox is necessary to keep my OCD under control so its not like I was getting pumped full of the stuff) and it seems the last time I checked with my doctor prevailing opinion had gone against that theory.

Anyway just a sorta interesting tidbit.

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