What's So Funny about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

Cefalu, Paul

doi:10.1632/pmla.2009.124.1.44

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“…As I have argued elsewhere, what distinguishes OCD from OCPD is that obsessionals with the former disorder are fundamentally self-alienated and experience their symptoms with detached irony (Cefalu 2009). …”

Section: Hoarding Cynical Reason and Ocdmentioning

confidence: 98%

Acquiring Things: Strange Cases of Compulsive Hoarding

Cefalu

2015

J Med Humanit

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Why has compulsive hoarding recently captured the American imagination? To what extent is hoarding a subtype of OCD or a discrete "disorder" in its own right? Can a cultural-studies and philosophical assessment of hoarding complement the medical model that has recently been offered by clinicians and the DSM IV? This essay tracks these and related questions in order to offer a theory of compulsive hoarding that pays particular attention to the sometimes distorted representation of hoarding in literature and the mainstream media.

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Acquiring Things: Strange Cases of Compulsive Hoarding

Cefalu

2015

J Med Humanit

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“…With OCD, focusing on compulsive behaviors leaves out the importance of obsessive thoughts and anxiety. Although these compulsions appear unnecessary to observers, they are driven by powerful, irrepressible thoughts (Cefalu, 2009).…”

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Tweeting and Trivializing

Pavelko

Myrick

2016

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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A quick search of social media websites demonstrates that users often describe their benign behaviors (e.g., organizing drawers or color-coding) as related to obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD). Yet, the actual disease is complex and often much more severe than suggested by Twitter users who employ the term #OCD. The present experiment examines the effects of such disease trivialization on social media users' perceptions of the disease, emotional reactions, and intentions to take action related to the disease. To do so, it first explicates the concept of disease trivialization as a three-part phenomenon involving oversimplification, decreased severity, and mockery. Findings from an experiment (N ¼ 574) indicate that different patterns of emotional reactions can be found in response to framing of OCD as either trivial, clinical, or both trivial and clinical. Moreover, significant interactions between independent variables were found. Participant gender and preexisting familiarity with OCD also shaped participant perceptions and behavioral intentions. Directions for future work are discussed. Imagination, Cognition and Personality: Consciousness in Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice 0(0) 1-23 ! The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav

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That’s so OCD: The effects of disease trivialization via social media on user perceptions and impression formation

Pavelko

Myrick

2015

Computers in Human Behavior

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What's So Funny about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Acquiring Things: Strange Cases of Compulsive Hoarding

Acquiring Things: Strange Cases of Compulsive Hoarding

Tweeting and Trivializing

That’s so OCD: The effects of disease trivialization via social media on user perceptions and impression formation

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