"I know my hands are clean. I know that I have touched nothing dangerous. But…
I doubt my perception. Soon, if I do not wash, a mind numbing, searing anxiety will
cripple me. A feeling of stickiness will begin to spread from the point of contamination and
I will be lost in a place I do not want to go. So I wash until the feeling is gone, until the
anxiety subsides. Then I feel defeated. So I do less and less, my world becomes smaller
and smaller and more lonely by the day" (Healthy Place: OCD Community). The writer of
this poem has a disease call Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). In OCD, it is as
though the brain gets stuck on a particular thought or urge and just can't let go. OCD can
persist throughout a person's life, gradually worsening. If not treated, OCD can drastically
affect all aspects of a person's life: work, school, friends, and family (Weiskopf).
Worries, doubts, and superstitious beliefs all are common in everyday life.
However, when they become so......

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Title: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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