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#2 (permalink) Sat Apr 07, 2007 20:03 pm Name of the illness in which a person becomes obsessed with cleanliness |
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| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)? |
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#3 (permalink) Sat Apr 07, 2007 20:05 pm Name of the illness in which a person becomes obsessed with cleanliness |
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Many thanks, Conchita
Have you ever met a person like this? Do they shake hands?
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#4 (permalink) Sat Apr 07, 2007 20:26 pm Name of the illness in which a person becomes obsessed with cleanliness |
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I haven't personally met anybody like that, but I imagine they try to refrain from any kind of physical contact.
PS: The expression 'compulsive hand washer' seems to be widely used, too. |
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#5 (permalink) Sat Apr 07, 2007 21:03 pm Name of the illness in which a person becomes obsessed with cleanliness |
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Howie Mandel is OCD..if you ever see him being introduced to another person he always makes a fist and bumps knuckles and never shakes hands. |
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#6 (permalink) Sat Apr 07, 2007 21:15 pm Name of the illness in which a person becomes obsessed with cleanliness |
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| Looking up 'Howie Mandel' (sorry, but I'd never heard of him before), I found another name for this disorder: mysophobia (fear of germs). |
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#7 (permalink) Sat Apr 07, 2007 22:26 pm Name of the illness in which a person becomes obsessed with cleanliness |
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Hi Tom
Have you ever seen the movie As Good As It Gets? Jack Nicholson played an obsessive-compusive in that movie. I'm no expert about this disorder, but my guess is that Nicholson probably researched the disorder so that he could portray it well in the film. I thought his performance was excellent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Good_as_It_Gets
Scroll down to the symptoms in the following link. Most of them were clearly portrayed by Nicholson in the film. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive-compulsive_disorder |
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#8 (permalink) Sat May 26, 2007 4:48 am Name of the illness in which a person becomes obsessed with cleanliness |
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| Yankee wrote: |
Hi Tom
Have you ever seen the movie As Good As It Gets? Jack Nicholson played an obsessive-compusive in that movie. I'm no expert about this disorder, but my guess is that Nicholson probably researched the disorder so that he could portray it well in the film. I thought his performance was excellent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Good_as_It_Gets
Scroll down to the symptoms in the following link. Most of them were clearly portrayed by Nicholson in the film. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive-compulsive_disorder |
Hi tom, my grandpa has Mysophobia and OCD which makes him afraid to touch people and objects that may have germs on them. he uses a glove to open doors that u pull and kicks open doors that u push. he doesnt use public bathrooms and when he goes out to eat he leaves the wrapers on the table instead of throwing them away. and no he does NOT shake hands. and most people i know say that i am developing this mysophobia and OCD. i have most of the same symptoms he does |
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#9 (permalink) Sat May 26, 2007 18:41 pm Name of the illness in which a person becomes obsessed with cleanliness |
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Tom
I knew someone with OCD.
Her particular hang-up was food -- she was absolutely obsessed with (and fearful of) the ingredients in food.
She once saw me eating some soup (canned soup) and almost lost it.... something about how the metal in the can would poison me, and about all the sodium in the soup. She wasn't just posing an argument and acting a little bit concerned -- this was important to the degree that someone would feel for a missing child.
She taped candy bar wrappers to her walls -- I suppose as an act of defiance and a reminder of what not to eat.
She was neither bulimic nor anorexic -- what she ate, she kept down, and she did eat.
She was just EXTREMELY particular. _________________ Billie Jean is not my lover. Hee. |
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