Word: ocd
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...Though it may be a bit wordy, Fun Home's depiction of a love-starved childhood leaves a lasting impression. Bechdel recalls her period of OCD, her father's arrest for buying an underage boy a beer, and family trips accompanied by male baby-sitters with as much of a sense of their tragedy as their dark comedy. She will slip in the occasional sick joke amid the scenes of frustration and bewilderment. Loaves of Sunbeam bread repeatedly make appearances, for example, echoing her father's eventual demise by being run over by a truck from that same company. Gradually...
...deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)--selective mutism gets less attention and considerably fewer research dollars. "These children are ignored because, let's face it, they aren't causing anyone trouble. They are literally left alone and forgotten about," says psychologist Lindsey Bergman, associate director of the UCLA child and adolescent OCD [obsessive-compulsive disorder] and anxiety disorders program...
Orman admits her unstinting focus isn't easy on friends. "They say, 'Oh, she's just being OCD again.'" But the finance queen makes no apologies: "It just works...
...first, some clarification. Perfectionism can take many different forms, stemming from different aspects of a person’s personality. Perfectionism in its most extreme form is a manifestation of psychological disorder or neurosis—a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), perhaps. People who have this type of perfectionism could take up to 20 minutes to write a check or fill out a simple form because of the compulsive need to check, double-check, triple-check, quadruple-check their work and make sure that it is absolutely mistake-free. Neurotic perfectionists are unable to derive any sense...
...problem, though neither Andrea nor her teacher knew it, was that her adolescent brain was being tossed by the neurochemical storms of generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)--a decidedly lousy trifecta. If that was what eighth grade was, ninth was unimaginable...