This is a real nice article on OCD. It’s good to read something about OCD in the mainstream media that doesn’t emphasis the more uh, unusual aspects of this disorder. It’s a pretty good summary of what OCD is and where it comes from and it’s treatment. At least as to the current understanding of it all. Go read it.

When Worry Hijacks The Brain - TIME
We all think we know what OCD is, and most of the time we’re all wrong. It’s the nervous guy from Monk; it’s cranky Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets. In the end, though, things usually work out for them. They even get the girl, who sees them as a kind of adorable emotional fixer-upper.

But OCD isn’t adorable. About 7 million adults, teens and children in the U.S. are now thought to have it in one form or another, and their pain is far worse than you probably know.