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OCD Chicago volunteer Anthony Barone is profiled both online and also on the August 3, 2009 front page of the Chicago Tribune newspaper in a story by Deborah L. Shelton entitled “A LIFE UNLOCKED.”
By age 7, Anthony Barone was already descending into a confusing world of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors that would dominate his life.
Everybody has pet peeves. Mine happen to include technical terms that are commonly used but don’t really mean anything. Within the field of OCD, one particular term that I really wish would go away is “obsessive slowness.” Researchers and practitioners generally use it to describe the behavior of people who carry out everyday activities in an extremely slow manner. Examples would include someone taking thirty minutes to wash their face, ten minutes to put on one shoe, or two hours to decide what brand of detergent to buy.
