Look at it this way. If your phone has dents, scratches and cracks in the glass, it's easy to identify which one is yours. It's personalised 
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How to stop being OCD about iPhone?
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I've been diagnosed with it OCD, I always worry about my health and protecting myself. I posted this thread because I know I shouldn't be worrying about my phone as much I am. I've always been OCD about a lot of things, like the other day, I accidentally looked in the sun, and I kept worrying my eyesight would get worse. I'm sorry I haven't been active in this thread, I've been busy with school work
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Yes... yes it is. Want to stop an addiction? Stop taking what ever drug it is you're addicted to. Want to stop being OCD about a phone.... Stop being OCD about the phone. Pretty easy concept to grasp. Oh but that takes a little self discipline and control over one's body/mind..... Lots of people have issues with such things which is really too bad.
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Your comparison is silly. On is something happening inside your body not under your control... the other is certainly controllable by simply changing the habit/issue at hand.
Ummmm for the weak minded sure it's very tough but for those that actually want to make a change it's really not so tough.
When I was 20 I was diagnosed with clinical depression.... they wanted to dump a bunch of meds into me to "fix" me....... know what I did? I made a life decision to STOP being depressed and guess what? Yes it took very hard work on my part but I "fixed" my depression all on my own with some help from others.... Seems a lot of people don't want to put in the hard work.
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Yes, stopping is the action of course, but getting to it and staying with it often involves more than simply deciding to do it. Even you yourself pointed out that t takes a lot of hard work, so clearly it's not just as simple as just stopping and that's it.
As you have illustrated, it's also tough for the small minded to admit that everything is not as black-and-white as they think it is.
Was your depression caused only by outside forces, or was it a chemical imbalance? It must have been outside forces only because, as you state, it's silly to think that you could control something inside your body.
Are you a scientologist?
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I probably should just ignore this, but the attitude that thinks people should just decide to get over it is about as ridiculous as saying someone with diabetes should just decide to not be diabetic. The ironic thing is that this view is equally or more of a black and white view than the view that all mental illnesses must be treated with medicine. It's wonderful that you didn't need medicine, but it's incredibly ignorant and wrong to make the assertion that nobody needs the help of medication. Mental illness is not that simple. The view that it's just weakness and something to "get over" is one of the very reasons mental illness has become so stigmatized.
Same difference, or splitting the hairs, or grasping at straws...take your pick, as they say (and that's not mentioning completely overlooking/ignoring the actual points of that post).