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2 unusual facts about Obsessive–compulsive disorder


Compulsion

Obsessive–compulsive disorder, a mental disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce anxiety and by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing that anxiety

University of Florida Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Program

Wayne Goodman and Gary Geffken, the UF OCD program focuses on training and treatment of refractory Obsessive–compulsive disorder.


A Breed Apart

Obsessive collector J.P. Whittier, determined to obtain specimens of a newly discovered breed of bald eagle, hires rock climber Mike Walker to pose as a photographer and win reclusive conservationist Jim Malden's confidence in order to gain access to eggs from their lofty nest.

Adam Lerner

At The Lab at Belmar, Lerner curated solo exhibitions of Liam Gillick and Issac Julien as well as such non-traditional exhibitions as The Astounding Problem of Andrew Novick, featuring the obsessive collections of a former punk rock singer turned electrical engineer.

Anne Flournoy

It is a story of obsessive teen love, adapted from Turgenev, and starred Jenny Wright.

At KROQ

Following the end of "Sing Your Life", the EP's most noted feature is heard: eight full minutes of messages left for Morrissey by ardent, sometimes bordering on obsessive, fans on the voice mail of KROQ-FM personality Richard Blade.

Bob Justin

Justin’s style, as described by an Assistant Curator from the New Jersey State Museum, Alison Weld, ranges from the minimal to obsessive and expressionistic, and thus his pieces vary from obsessively adorned objects to simple spare masks and sculptures.

Brain Lock

Brain Lock is a term coined by Dr. Jeffrey M. Schwartz, a researcher in the field of self-directed neuroplasticity, with a focus on the pathological mechanisms and psychological treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

Chasey Lain

In 1999, the band Bloodhound Gang released a song entitled "The Ballad of Chasey Lain" about an obsessive stalker of Lain who writes her a series of sexually explicit letters.

Daniela Bobadilla

It was announced on February 15, 2012 that she will play the 13-year-old obsessive-compulsive daughter of Shawnee Smith and Sheen’s unorthodox therapist in Anger Management on FX in the United States, CTV in Canada and on TBS in Latin America.

Don't Wanna Let You Go

An obsessive female fan (portrayed by Keira Knightley) appears to have been constantly sending Five emails and letters in the hope of meeting them, so they decide to go to the girl's address in their Range Rover.

Edgewater Beach Hotel

On June 14, 1949, Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus was shot and nearly killed by an obsessive fan at the hotel, 19-year-old Ruth Steinhagen; this later would be a large part of the inspiration behind Bernard Malamud's novel The Natural.

Felipe Cardeña

Vittorio Sgarbi wrote that "Felipe Cardeña proposes the amateur technique of collage pursuing a repetitive and obsessive iconography as the daily rosary of a cloistered nun".

Gift of Men

He does not age, but has a sense of becoming "thin and stretched." Toward the end of his possession of the Ring, Bilbo begins to show some of the obsessive tendencies of Gollum — calling the Ring "my precious," and showing flashes of dark hostility when asked by Gandalf to give the Ring to his heir, Frodo.

Lanark: A Life in Four Books

The book follows Thaw's wartime evacuation, secondary education and his scholarship to the Glasgow School of Art, where his inability to form relationships with women and his obsessive artistic vision lead to his descent into madness and eventual suicide by drowning.

Locura de amor

The movie is based on the play La Locura de Amor written in 1855 by Manuel Tamayo y Baus around the figure of Queen Joanna of Castile; who attracted authors, composers, and artists of the romanticist movement, due to her characteristics of unrequited love, obsessive jealousy, and undying fidelity.

Majesty Crush

Stroughter's often strange and obsessive lyrics cover such subjects as stalking Jodie Foster ("No. 1 Fan"), torture ("Boyfriend"), heroin ("Horse"), a female cashier at an adult book store ("Sunni Pie"), actresses ("Uma"), tennis stars ("Seles") and Italian porn stars ("Cicciolina").

Mike Sharpe

Sharpe is described in at least three books by former wrestling personalities (Tom "Dynamite Kid" Billington, Hulk Hogan and Gary Michael Cappetta) as having shown characteristics of obsessive-compulsive disorder, as evidenced by a preoccupation with cleanliness that caused him to spend hours washing his hands or showering at arenas and meticulously folding and re-folding his clothing.

My Name Is Not Susan

In the song's music video directed by Lionel C. Martin, Houston is featured playing both herself and a character named "Susan." The video is suggested by several elements in the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo, both containing a man involved with an obsessive love for both a glamorous blonde and down-to-earth brunette played by the same actress.

One Hamlet Less

Carmelo Bene is an obsessive actor who plays for various theaters tragedy Hamlet along with his theater company.

Richard Milward

Adam is a shy, ungainly youth with obsessive compulsive disorder, a love of The Beatles, and a violent father.

Rock and the Pop Narcotic

On the other hand, his obsessive search for music that displays the qualities he regards as intrinsic to rock music leads him to champion such relatively obscure bands as Saint Vitus, Bloodrock, Sproton Layer and The Sylvia Juncosa Band.

Sentimentalist Magazine

Voted as PLUG Awards nominee in the Media (obsessive) category "Zine of the Year" in 2007 and again in 2008, subjects range from undiscovered bands and talent to the brightest and best.

Susan Swedo

In 1994, Swedo was lead author on a paper describing Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections (PANDAS), proposing a link between Group A streptococcal infection in children and some rapid-onset cases of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or tic disorders such as Tourette syndrome.

Tango on intohimoni

Virtanen is a tango obsessive, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject, which he insists on sharing with everybody he meets.

The Aesthetics of Rock

Writer Greil Marcus, in his introduction to the Da Capo edition of Aesthetics, maintains that the book is "the best and most obsessive book about the Beatles ever written," and that the work seeks to illuminate "the collapse of art into everyday life, and vice versa."

The Most Toys

In this episode, Lieutenant Commander Data (Brent Spiner) is kidnapped by an obsessive collector, who leads the Enterprise crew to believe that Data was destroyed in a shuttlecraft accident.

The War Against the West

In citations from Hitler, Goebbels, and others, Kolnai sought to expose what he saw as "the obsessive German national socialist effort to replace Christianity with a crude and barbaric form of pagan religion, to twist the cross of Christ into a swastika."

Three Men in a Boat

In Have Space Suit—Will Travel, by Robert A. Heinlein, the main character's father is an obsessive fan of the book, and spends much of his spare time repeatedly re-reading it.

Twice exceptional

The disabilities are varied: dyslexia, visual or auditory processing disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, sensory processing disorder, Asperger syndrome, Tourette Syndrome, or any other disability interfering with the student's ability to learn effectively in a traditional environment.

William S. Bowdern

Following the death of his aunt, the boy — named in records only as "Roland", sometimes referred to simply as "R", and reported as "Robbie Manheim" in Thomas B. Allen's book Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism — began using the Ouija Board on an increasingly obsessive basis.


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