Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Laura Ingalls Wilder once said, “The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.” This quote is a good description of how some people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder function. They can become so obsessed with the thought of organizing the littlest of things that do not even need organizing. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a disorder that takes a toll on the brain and behavior; leading to symptoms such as obsessions and compulsions, and it is important that those with the disorder seek help.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, frequently shortened to OCD, is an unpreventable disorder of the brain and behavior. Previously associated with anxiety, …show more content…
On August 14, 2014, Dr. Jon E. Grant, who works in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine, published an article in The New England Journal of Medicine that tells of a 19-year-old man who was brought to the doctor by his father. His father described him first by saying that his son was always "finicky", but that it grew worse within two years and that his son “washes his hands a hundred times a day, will not touch anything that has been touched by someone else without scrubbing it first, and has a fear of germs that has left him isolated in his bedroom, unable to eat, and wishing he were …show more content…
Only those who are trained therapists can diagnose someone with OCD. The therapists have to look at what obsessions and compulsions one has and how much it affects them on a day to day basis. People who are affected usually fall under one of the following categories: the washers, the checkers, the doubters and sinners, the counters and arrangers, and the hoarders. Washers are those who are afraid of contamination, checkers regularly check things, doubters and sinners believe that everything has to be perfect or else something bad will happen, counters and arrangers oftentimes are obsessed with order and symmetry, and hoarders usually fear something terrible will happen if they throw thing

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