Grown adults getting excited about cleaning cloths and different fragrances of disinfectant. TV shows where people who are obviously ill with OCD are paraded as being somehow morally superior to others because they spend hours every day cleaning already clean houses... I just don't get it. Is...
Today it is well-accepted that OCD is much more common than was thought previously. Typically 2–3 % of the general population is believed to have OCD or OCD-like symptoms. In many cases the task that an OCD sufferer does may seem simple to the layperson, but the sufferer feels that t...
Studies show that people with OCD have some biological traits in common. For instance, there is evidence that OCD is linked to increased activity in certain brain areas. Compulsions like excessive cleaning and checking might be linked to how the thalamus, the part of your brain that relays ...
Studies show that people with OCD have some biological traits in common. For instance, there is evidence that OCD is linked to increased activity in certain brain areas. Compulsions like excessive cleaning and checking might be linked to how the thalamus, the part of your brain that relays ...
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Cleanliness: Considered the most common OCD-related obsession, this type of OCD is marked by constantly thinking about cleaning, washing, sterilizing, or bathing, out of a fear of contracting a debilitating or life-threatening ailment. Being overwhelmed with thoughts about cleanliness or fears of il...
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It's a joy to see how the mish-mash of presented pipe-segments coalesces into an elegant solution. Perhaps it's just my latent OCD coming through, but when I'm somehow able to put order into the chaos of each of Gridz's forty levels, I get the sense that things are somehow being...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a neuropsychiatric condition characterized by persistent intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive ritualized actions (compulsions). Factor analytic studies have identified four primary subtypes of OCD: contamination obsessions with cleaning compulsions, symmetry obsess...