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Tue 01 Jan 2009Cycle of obsessive thoughts
REGULARLY FEATURED in films and TV programmes as neurotic and overtly quirky characters, people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) are much misunderstood and often have to battle for years to be properly diagnosed, writes FIONA TYRRELL.
Mention the term obsessive compulsive and most people think of the neurotic novelist who couldn’t stand on cracks in the pavement played by Jack Nicholson in As Good as it Gets or the hygiene-obsessed surgeon played by Michael J Fox in a couple of episodes of Scrubs.
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