Mind Game: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
by Kimberly Blaker
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This anxiety disorder is a neurological malfunction that creates unrelenting,
intrusive thoughts and extreme anguish for those affected.
Obsessions may range from a fear of hitting someone while driving to unbearable
worries about contamination. These fears can be alleviated only one way—by
acting out compulsions, which become repetitive acts of checking and rechecking
to insure that the fear is unfounded.
Even though OCD was added to the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) in 1987, many people still
live with its destruction unaware that there is help or even a name for their
bizarre fears and behaviors.
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