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Select a Story below- 06 February 2010 Pssst…OCD is NOT an Adjective
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06 February 2010
Pssst…OCD is NOT an Adjective
Perhaps you’ve noticed this growing misuse. Maybe you, yourself, are even guilty of an occasional infraction. (It’s okay; you are forgiven.) Misuse includes comments such as this: “My boyfriend is so OCD about keeping his apartment clean.” Or this: “Ever since starting high school, I’ve become so OCD about doing my homework.
- 04 February 2010 Body dysmorphic disorder patients see details, not whole face
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04 February 2010
Body dysmorphic disorder patients see details, not whole face
It turns out that people with this condition have abnormal brain function when it comes to looking at pictures of their own faces, according to a new study led by Feusner and published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
- 30 January 2010 ‘Those were my babies’ — animal hoarding is a complex psychological problem
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30 January 2010
‘Those were my babies’ — animal hoarding is a complex psychological problem
Hoarding is recognized as a complicated problem and has spurred a specialty among psychologists and researchers around the country over the past decade. Some are rethinking whether animal- and object-hoarding share the same roots.