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The OCD Soapbox
Luke:
Yeah, as far as all the OCD-related speculations out there go, most of you don't have OCD. Watch the show Monk (on the USA channel, perhaps others) and you'll see what OCD really is.
est:
Is that actually a decent reference, though? I saw a couple of episodes of that series and was like "Ok, this is an awful show". Granted I don't have OCD, but it just seemed like they were going out of their way to be all like "he has OCD! look at how wild and crazy he is with the OCD and the cleanliness and the wackiness!"
Inlander:
Yeah, I've only watched snippets of that show but I don't see any evidence of frustration, anger, diminished self-esteem and self-confidence, or self-harm used as a distraction mechanism.
For a better televisual depiction of O.C.D. watch the episodes of Scrubs in which Michael J. Fox guest-starred.
AntiEntropy:
Or As Good As It Gets
Luke:
There was an episode of Monk where he got arrested because he mistakenly walked into his (deceased) wife's house, which had long been owned by different people by then.
Monk really is a good example of OCD, but he also suffers from other stuff. It's more of a situation where he took a huge psychological hit when his wife died, one of the results being some OCD-ish tendencies.
I personally am a much better example of OCD because I like even numbers better than odd numbers. </huurrrr>
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