Word: ocd
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...Once I’ve lost in things twice consecutively, I can’t wear them again in a tournament match,” Hall said. “I have OCD [obsessive-compulsive disorder] when it comes to matching. My sports bra has to match my spandex which has to match my bandanna...
...channel my OCD into repeatedly clicking the send/receive button on Outlook in anticipation of my package notification, I muse about how I might try to remedy this cable drought were I a mob boss from New Jersey rather than a lowly student journalist from Harvard. But then again, I’ll never know. I don’t have...
...story of Adrian Monk--the protagonist of the hit detective show on the USA cable network--is not unlike the story of Monk the series. Monk, played by Tony Shalhoub, is a brilliant detective with a few quirks: after his wife was murdered, he developed obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Now he's germ phobic and afraid of heights--and milk. He can ID a criminal with little more than a sniff of the curtains at a murder scene, but put him near a couch with a crooked pillow, and he can't function until he straightens it. Because...
Granted, even most OCD sufferers do not have Monk's over-the-top problems. "We're taking dramatic license," says Shalhoub, who met several times with a psychologist while researching his part. "We're loading this character with just about everything a person like him can have." In a strange way, Monk's exaggerated condition makes his crime-solving genius more plausible. (More so than Monk's secondary characters, who too often have a cardboard, murder-mystery-dinner-theater feel.) It makes us see that Adrian Monk's talent--and that of the many fictional sleuths who preceded...
...neurotransmitter serotonin, leaving more in nerve synapses and thus helping to improve mood. Another SSRI, Paxil, was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration specifically for the treatment of social-anxiety disorder, though the others seem to work as well. A third, Zoloft, has been approved for OCD and panic disorder. Each formulation of SSRI is subtly different--targeting specific subclasses of serotonin. And side effects--which can include dry mouth, fatigue and sexual dysfunction--will vary from person to person. A new group of antidepressants, known as serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, may be even more effective in treating...