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Conditions,Complications, and more associated with severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Includes personal story.

Date Submitted: 03/31/2003 14:00:28
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Health Care
Length: 5 pages (1447 words)
Do you perform unnecessary rituals in your daily routine? Are you afraid to throw anything out? Do you constantly organize and reorganize until you cannot find anything? If so, you may suffer from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? More commonly known as OCD, this disease affects one in forty people, or five million Americans. Although when people think of OCD they picture that Jack Nicholson movie or someone washing their hands too much, the …
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…now, just to keep me sane and to help me control my OCD (especially when I'm in public places). Most helpful has been knowing that while my friends and family do not encourage my "weirdness", they accept it, try to be patient, and try to understand that I can't just make myself stop. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a dreadful illness, but thanks to medicine and technology we can better understand the people who suffer from it.
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