1. OCD
This disorder does not only plague adults, it can start very early in childhood, and it impacts every aspect of what we know as normal life. ... In her groundbreaking book about people with OCD, psychologist Judith Rapoport told the stories of people that she treated, explaining how the disorder destroyed the ordinary routine, and "distorted the families whole life" (Rapoport, 1989). ... Pictures of a working brain of one such patient "show that the brain circuits involved in OCD return to normal (OCF, 2000)." ... The compulsion to clean or wash or wash is that of Shakespeare's Lady Ma...
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