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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. Then I feel defeated. So I do less and less, my world becomes smaller and smaller and more lonely by the day? (Healthy Place: OCD Community). The writer of this poem has a disease call Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). In OCD, it is as though the brain gets stuck on a particular thought or urge and just can't let go. OCD can persist throughout a person?s life, gradually worsening. If not treated, OCD can drastically affect all aspects of a person?s life: work, school, friends, and family (Weiskopf).

Worries, doubts, and superstitious beliefs all are common in everyday life. However, when they become so excessive as to interrupt one?s daily life, then the diagnosis is Obsessive Comp... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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