Word: ocd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ashamed of the fact that he is bored with the Gap(tm)-bland banality of his successful life he is forced to pretend that his affliction is something completely different. Hence his addiction to group therapy sessions, where he can pretend that his unhappiness springs from testicular cancer or OCD rather than from the cookie-cutter pointlessness of his life. Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) in American Beauty faces the same dilemma: she's wealthy, she has a nice little nuclear family, she likes martinis...of course she should be happy. Just as the narrator in Fight Club spends the entire...
...ashamed of the fact that he is bored with the Gap(tm)-bland banality of his successful life he is forced to pretend that his affliction is something completely different. Hence his addiction to group therapy sessions, where he can pretend that his unhappiness springs from testicular cancer or OCD rather than from the cookie-cutter pointlessness of his life. Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) in American Beauty faces the same dilemma: she's wealthy, she has a nice little nuclear family, she likes martinis...of course she should be happy. Just as the narrator in Fight Club spends the entire...
...while the search for new ills to conquer is part of any drug's life cycle, the scramble is especially furious with mood drugs like Prozac and its kin. Prozac has been approved for bulimia and obsessive-compulsive disorder in addition to depression, while Zoloft can be used for OCD, and Paxil for both OCD and panic disorder...
...only by educated trial and error, not from reading drug labels, that doctors learned how broadly useful SSRIs like Prozac, Paxil, Luvox and Celexa can be in treating not just depression, OCD, bulimia and panic disorder but also migraines, anxiety disorders, attention-deficit disorder, kleptomania, post-traumatic stress and even premenstrual mood swings. (Despite earlier claims about Prozac and attempts to link Luvox to the Colorado school shootings, there is no evidence that SSRIs themselves cause violent behavior.) Although the FDA hasn't approved all these uses for all the drugs, doctors are free to prescribe them for anything they...
Seemingly independent of each other, reuniting only for Christmas, these entirely estranged people are linked by their common past and by genetic inescapability symbolized by their individual manifestations of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Martin deftly uses OCD (By no means a glaring theme within the book) to represent the complex, unavoidable and often tragic ties that bind families. Except for dutifully doing what she is told, Keelin seems to be unaffected by the disorder. Her brother Patrick, however, develops from a boy so fixated by his own sinfulness that the priest complains about his overly frequent confessions into a latex...