Excessive Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder “I know my hands are clean. I know that I have touched nothing dangerous. But… I doubt my perception. Soon, if I do not wash, a mind numbing, searing anxiety will cripple me. A feeling of stickiness will begin to spread from the point of contamination and I will be lost in a place I do not want to go. So I wash until the feeling is gone, until the anxiety subsides. …

…compulsion?” “ ‘The core part of the problems is that the individual needs to be absolutely certain about something’. Explained Grayson. ‘The problem is that they are to smart to be certain. For every logical answer there is a what if’ ” (Vendantam). OCD is not a disorder where the sufferer can simply stop. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a dysfunction in the brain, just like a heart attack is a dysfunction of the heart (Cronin). WORKS CITED