The Man who Couldn’t Stop: OCD And The True Story Of A Life Lost In Thought
In a two-page reflection/response, answer the following questions using specific passages and concepts from the text:
Describe the spectrum of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders presented in the text.
OCD is believed to has its own spectrum, there are mainly five OCD spectrum in this text which are as followed: Firstly, autism, which can feature a need to observe rigid routines and rituals, and some autistic patients report both obsessions and compulsions. Secondly, neurological disorders, which means any disorders of the body nervous system such as some repetitive and unwanted behavior. Thirdly, Parkinson’s disease, since some patients of Parkinson find it impossible to…show more content… What struck me most surprising about OCD is the story that an Ethiopian schoolgirl called Bira once ate a wall of her house because of OCD. By the time she was 17 years old she had eaten eight square metes of the wall which is more than half a tonne of mud bricks. How can a human eat and digest mud and bricks? That is no doubt the most surprising I had heard, however, her OCD is only moderately-severe because she just spent about two hours a day thinking about the wall and eating mud and OCD patients can waste up to six hours a day. So what can a OCD patient may really beyond our imagination.
D.Which examples from The Mam Who Couldn’t Stop marked a change in your thinking of…show more content… After reading this book, I find that even the most famous people can be suffered with OCD. Although one-time First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill didn’t like to travel by ship just because the ego-dystonic urging he to jump into the water. It is very hard to think how a people who charge the navy could be afraid of taking a boat, what’s more, his reasons for that seemed ridiculous. George Washington and Frederic Chopin shared this fear of being buried alive, which is formally known as taphephobia. George Washington and Frederic Chopin are all talents who had created a time of them, what a surprising that they may feared being buried alive! So many famous people have suffered with OCD has really changed my thinking of OCD. OCD is a common mental disease which all of us may have it, and we shall not be too afraid about it because although many famous people can be suffered from it, however they are still very
