Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

For my I-Search I have chosen to write about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). I have been interested in the disorder ever since I came across a woman with OCD in goodwill while I was in St. Louis. I was with my cousin and sister at the time and we were relaxing in chairs near the bathroom while waiting for our parents to be done finding a brand new, old pair of jeans. While relaxing in the chairs, my cousin and I noticed a girl go into the bathroom, but not close the door all the way and then we heard her spraying something. We immediately looked at each other with the most confused faces and wanted to know what was going on in there. When she walked out of the bathroom we noticed she was in a completely new wardrobe, so being the nosey person that I am I needed to know what she did in the bathroom. When we walked into the bathroom we saw clothing in the garbage and it was obvious that something had been sprayed in the toilet because it was foaming. We still didn’t quite get what was going on so we went to search for the lady that we saw in the bathroom to see what she was up to. We then spotted her running around the store like a crazy woman and sorting the clothes by color while putting on hats, scarves and boots. While we were checking out, I saw her walking out of the store looking very suspicious, but then I noticed something that made me realize she might have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. While the woman was walking out of the store she walked past a column, but then came back to it and tapped it a certain amount of times and then proceeded to walk out the store. Since then I have always wondered about OCD and have even met a few people with very mild cases of it. I know a few things about it, but want to learn a lot more. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a condition that affects thousands of people around the world, every hour of every day. OCD causes people to do certain things, such as touching a doorknob numerous times, over and over again.

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