Richard Ford
Novelist
"I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain."
Obsessive Compulsive quotes
Obsessive Compulsive
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Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis."
Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac."
Tracy Kidder
Author
"Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange."
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