Obsessive Compulsion Disorder
Voice: Informal
Audience: OCD patents/ OCD caretakers
By: Christopher Chukwura
OCD
Imagine being constantly worried about catching a serious illness such as Malaria. Although you know it’s difficult to contract the disease, you’re always worried. At first washing your hands after contacts with other person is regular. Soon your fear gets worse, causing the urge to wash your hands every opportunity open, to the point where avoiding parks and public places is a must. This is a struggle that about 3.5 million people deal with daily. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is one, if not the most unique disorder since no two people have it in the exact same way. In my opinion, the narrative entitled Opinionator by Beth Boyle Machlan is more effective in addressing the issue of OCD than Plague of Tics by David Sedaris because it shows it from a serious perspective rather than David Sedaris’s comedian-like narrative take on the issue.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something. (National Library of Medicine) OCD is a hardship that many people have to endure with every day and writing about a severe disorder and belittling it with sarcasm and humor just doesn’t adequately address the issue. “I wasn’t kissing it. I was just trying to read the headline.”
“And you had to get that close? Maybe we need to get you some stronger glasses.” I personally feel this quote from David Sedaris’s narrative is trying to minimize the importance of this issue and show the readers this isn’t a very severe disorder even though it is. Because of this, I question the effectiveness of David Sedaris’s narrative in addressing the issue of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The perspective of obsessive-compulsive disorder from Beth Boyle Machlan’s narrative exposes the more serious aspects OCD. “Lucy is blond and her eyebrows are even
Audience: OCD patents/ OCD caretakers
By: Christopher Chukwura
OCD
Imagine being constantly worried about catching a serious illness such as Malaria. Although you know it’s difficult to contract the disease, you’re always worried. At first washing your hands after contacts with other person is regular. Soon your fear gets worse, causing the urge to wash your hands every opportunity open, to the point where avoiding parks and public places is a must. This is a struggle that about 3.5 million people deal with daily. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is one, if not the most unique disorder since no two people have it in the exact same way. In my opinion, the narrative entitled Opinionator by Beth Boyle Machlan is more effective in addressing the issue of OCD than Plague of Tics by David Sedaris because it shows it from a serious perspective rather than David Sedaris’s comedian-like narrative take on the issue.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something. (National Library of Medicine) OCD is a hardship that many people have to endure with every day and writing about a severe disorder and belittling it with sarcasm and humor just doesn’t adequately address the issue. “I wasn’t kissing it. I was just trying to read the headline.”
“And you had to get that close? Maybe we need to get you some stronger glasses.” I personally feel this quote from David Sedaris’s narrative is trying to minimize the importance of this issue and show the readers this isn’t a very severe disorder even though it is. Because of this, I question the effectiveness of David Sedaris’s narrative in addressing the issue of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The perspective of obsessive-compulsive disorder from Beth Boyle Machlan’s narrative exposes the more serious aspects OCD. “Lucy is blond and her eyebrows are even