I was searching AOL journals for mention of OCD and yours was among the first I saw. I have the disorder, have had it since birth, badly since age 12, and I need not say that you've got to be it to know it and nobody in the world at large can remotely fathom OCD; there is no point in even trying to help 'em to do so.
OCD has a direct correlation to Parkinson's disease, a fact that is most in evidence by the two (along with epilepsy) sharing some relatively new surgical procedure (I believe the one that blocks unwanted signals in the thalamus). It's good to joke about OCD or any other illness, but since this is a disease that calls the nature of morality (and therefore religion) itself into question, the world needs to learn to listen to the sound of our single hands clapping (I just covertly referenced 80s band the Smiths and an old Zen expression...whee).
In OCD, behaviors run into one another--unfinished, half a memory collides with new intent and the brain goes haywire paying attention to this small but often devastating (and ongoing) anomaly. The brain cannot switch gears, then freezes in oceans of what intents might mean. Some people use symbolic responses as compulsions. Others truly live the OCD one step up, two steps back...then giant leaps back into the unrestricted (for what, two seconds?) brain flow. The caudate nucleus--the part of the basal ganglia (which is what Parkinson's attacks on the opposite side, the putamen) that filters behavioral energy and memory--becomes the prison of a superego consistently going offline then returning in anguish.
"Sometimes building you a stairway...lock you underground" -- Rush
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I was searching AOL journals for mention of OCD and yours was among the first I saw. I have the disorder, have had it since birth, badly since age 12, and I need not say that you've got to be it to know it and nobody in the world at large can remotely fathom OCD; there is no point in even trying to help 'em to do so.
OCD has a direct correlation to Parkinson's disease, a fact that is most in evidence by the two (along with epilepsy) sharing some relatively new surgical procedure (I believe the one that blocks unwanted signals in the thalamus). It's good to joke about OCD or any other illness, but since this is a disease that calls the nature of morality (and therefore religion) itself into question, the world needs to learn to listen to the sound of our single hands clapping (I just covertly referenced 80s band the Smiths and an old Zen expression...whee).
In OCD, behaviors run into one another--unfinished, half a memory collides with new intent and the brain goes haywire paying attention to this small but often devastating (and ongoing) anomaly. The brain cannot switch gears, then freezes in oceans of what intents might mean. Some people use symbolic responses as compulsions. Others truly live the OCD one step up, two steps back...then giant leaps back into the unrestricted (for what, two seconds?) brain flow. The caudate nucleus--the part of the basal ganglia (which is what Parkinson's attacks on the opposite side, the putamen) that filters behavioral energy and memory--becomes the prison of a superego consistently going offline then returning in anguish.
"Sometimes building you a stairway...lock you underground" -- Rush
And this behavior/note now concludes. Tamam shud!
ummmmmmmm, okay, did you happen to notice that this site really isn't about that........and you seemed to write that really long thing, bye
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