This is a really decent article on OCD.

Are you crazy enough to succeed? - Behavior- msnbc.com

The medical director at the center, Michael Jenike, M.D., is both a maverick and a pioneer in the OCD community. He founded this facility, the first of its kind, to help sufferers of what he considers the most agonizing of psychiatric disorders.

“I had a 17-year-old who had kidney cancer that was going to kill him in 5 or 6 months. He also had a bad case of OCD. He said he’d rather get rid of his OCD and live only 6 months, than get rid of the cancer and live with the OCD. That’s when it first hit me: This is some serious stuff.”

The people seeking treatment at OCDI do not have the minstrel-show version of the disorder acted out by Tony Shalhoub in Monk or Jack Nicholson in As Good as It Gets. The institute’s residents are seriously impaired.

One of the things I likes about it was the point made about how people too casually use the term OCD (one of my pet peeves).

My favorite quote from the article is “I lived in an Escher print”. Heh. Been there. Uh, well still am, in fact.

Go read it.