Hi everybody, this is Gadsad. Back in 2006, I published a paper in a medical journal titled Medical Hypotheses,

where I was arguing that various sex-specific forms of OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder, happen in their particular ways because they're a

misfiring of an otherwise adaptive process that are very much sex-specific.

And this is very much the mechanism that I used to explain how we go from adaptive empathy to suicidal empathy,

which please, I hope that you go out and pre-order a copy today in less than five weeks, in four and a half weeks.

It'll be released, but it's really important to pre-order.

So I will put a link to pre-order the book in the description section.

In any case, in the book, I was in the, in the paper in question, I was talking about

various forms of OCD, one of which is what's called ruminative thinking. So instead of imagining that you suffer from germ contamination fear,

where you then obsessively will wash your hands because you can't extricate yourself

from the infinite loop of,

oh, what if my hands are still dirty?

Another form of infinite loop is that instead of the germ being on your hands,

it's a typically a negative thought that becomes ruminative

and that you can't get yourself out of.

And then there are different strategies that OCD suffers of ruminative thinking will engage in.

They might go back and try to ask people to

alleviate that anxiety or that anxiety-inducing pattern of ruminative thinking. Now, why am I saying

all this? Because this past weekend, I went to the movies with my family where we saw a movie

where a form of ruminative thinking arises, not because the protagonist suffers from OCD, but because

once that person hears of a certain reality, they simply can no longer think about anything else.

They're fixated on that.

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