![]() A person with OCD is overwhelmed with anxiety and fear about what will happen if they don’t clean their kitchen properly. ![]() ![]() A person with OCD doesn’t obsessively clean their kitchen just because they like it to be clean. ![]() These thoughts are linked with intense anxiety driving the individual with OCD to engage in compulsive behavior - their only escape. But for a person with OCD they can’t just “snap out of it.” Research has shown that the brain of a person with OCD actually functions differently in this situation, essentially getting “stuck” on a thought. Obsessive and compulsive traits on their own are not a mental illness - we all have things that perhaps we obsess over, (constantly replaying a recent job interview or date in one’s head, examining every last detail for clues to what the person thought, re-writing the same paragraph over and over to make sure the essay or report is JUST right). As our executive director likes to say, emphasis on the capital D for Disorder. OCD stands for obsessive compulsive disorder. This or this (or this, or this… and on and on).
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