There are times when our culture colludes with my OCD, like ads for WebMD on television or Public Health screening campaigns, which tend to rile up my obsessional thinking, and it's very frustrating. Not to mention that I work in a hospital. But my OCD found ways to thrive even without the internet, or any real knowledge about illness when I was little--like you said Zelda, it's pretty immune to rational thought. . .The specific concentrations of OCD is a fascinating thing. I call them my "Hot Zones"-- Some parts of my body never seem to be up for OCD'ing, but moles or lymph nodes or my bladder, or drug effects, and it just takes one thought of "maybe something is wrong" even in the absence of a physical symptom, to make me vulnerable to obsessing and compulsing.
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There are times when our culture colludes with my OCD, like ads for WebMD on television or Public Health screening campaigns, which tend to rile up my obsessional thinking, and it's very frustrating. Not to mention that I work in a hospital. But my OCD found ways to thrive even without the internet, or any real knowledge about illness when I was little--like you said Zelda, it's pretty immune to rational thought. . .The specific concentrations of OCD is a fascinating thing. I call them my "Hot Zones"-- Some parts of my body never seem to be up for OCD'ing, but moles or lymph nodes or my bladder, or drug effects, and it just takes one thought of "maybe something is wrong" even in the absence of a physical symptom, to make me vulnerable to obsessing and compulsing.
February 20, 2010 - 1:02pmThis Comment
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