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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, does my wife suffer from it? |
From time to time, my wife is trying to find a recipe that she had seen earlier in one of her 40 cookbooks or cooking articles. She gets really stressed if she can't find it. She NEEDS to find it, even though she isn't planning on cooking it any time soon. She won't come to bed. OCD?? OCD is not about obsessing about finding a single missing object. OCD people perform "rituals" that comfort them. Hand washing, door locking, counting, doing things in a certain order ALL the time and becoming distressed when prevented from performing their "rituals" are examples of OCD behaviors. Some OCD people are clean and neat freaks and some are total messy pack rats. The issue here is that they are extreme in these behaviors. Your wife is NOT OCD. No, its not OCD. It is just the fact she is a women. They have issues. doesnt sound like it. why dont you help her find it, then she wont be sooooo stressed out? It doesn't seems like she would be seek! Not likely that she has OCD. Perhaps she was looking for it for a friend or extended family member. My wife has approximately 1,500 cookbooks. But only has a few recipies she actually uses. |
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