Category: OCD

Source: RDNE Stock project/Pexels When I was in third grade, I was gripped by fear that my mother would be killed if I didn’t follow orders. From whom and where these orders…

Source: Ed Gregory / Stokpic If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), you tune into the world at a different frequency. You wonder which doors are clean enough to touch, which thoughts are…

“The Jabberwocky is a literal nonsense.” Within the tales of Alice in Wonderland and especially Through the Looking-Glass, there is a reference to the Jabberwock (Carroll, 1909;1893). In literature, the Jabberwocky is…

A man sneezing in a cinema, showing the use of handkerchiefs to prevent infectious disease, by HM Bateman, ca. 1951. Source: Wellcome Trust Collection. Used with permission of Ms. Lucy Willis, granddaughter…

Source: Adam Grant / Wikimedia Commons What if obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) isn’t just a misfiring of the brain and an overabundance of anxiety? What if there’s more to the story? My research…

Source: ElisaRiva/Pixabay If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and have sought treatment for it, you may have encountered the following scenario: You tell your therapist about an obsession du jour and hope…

At the end of every season of the Netflix reality show “Love is Blind,” I predictably say two things to my daughters: 1. I’m never watching another season. 2. How do I…

We’ve all heard it. “I’m so OCD.” The phrase is typically followed by a remark on how organized someone is, typically with a positive focus. While it’s true that, for some, cleaning…

Source: johnhain / Pixabay Can you imagine someone saying, “Hey, Will, forget Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet? Give us more Much Ado About Nothing.” Nobody would tell Shakespeare to stop writing…

Source: solangedrawing/Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License It’s hard to love the Grinch, but secretly I’ve always found him charming. Equal parts sour and selfish, he’s like a good Old-Fashioned served…