Originally Posted by
Callas 
Thank you for the comments. My opinion is clearly wrong.
No callas, I didn’t mean that at all. I apologize if it sounded like I did. I definitely don’t think you are “wrong”. You were just throwing out a thought, and it made sense. I am clinically OCD. My alcohol addiction was definitely first and foremost a result of self-medicating. THEN, however, it became an obsession. I’m no longer self-medicating bc I am properly medicated, but I developed an obsession towards alcohol when self-medicating. So, I think you are right that obsession can be linked. I just wanted to clarify the hell real ocd is. I tend to bristle when people (not you) use the phrase flippantly like “I’m so ocd...I require my kitchen to spic and span!” Uhm, no, they are just clean, then. When I’m tired, I don’t say “wow, I feel like I have stage 3 cancer!”, so I get really prickly when people discuss obsessions. I apologize!