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Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Whether it’s nail biting or handwashing, most of us have a compulsion we can’t give up. Maybe that’s a good thing? The Psychology of Why You Can’t Stop Checking Your Phone; Tracing the Patterns of an Obsessive Mind; When Obsessive Thoughts Take Control Of Your Life; How Obsession and Compulsion Powered American Genius.

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0:00.0	It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strain Champs.
0:03.5	What's your compulsion?
0:06.8	That thing you can't stop doing could be something ordinary, like checking your phone every five minutes.
0:12.8	Or it could be something more unusual.
0:16.6	So, Shala Nicely has classic OCD.
0:22.6	Science writer Sharon Begley.
0:30.6	She became convinced for no obvious reason that her cat Fred was in the refrigerator.
0:36.6	So she opened the refrigerator once and no, there was no cat inside. But then her brain got this itch.
0:40.3	What if Fred was actually behind the gallon container of milk?
0:45.3	Maybe I just didn't see him.
0:49.3	She opened it again. Still no Fred.
0:51.3	She would go away.
0:53.3	She would tell herself, no, he's not there, and then the thought would come back.
0:58.0	And then she thought, well, maybe, you know,
1:01.0	he has quantum teleported into the fridge
1:04.0	when my back was turned, so she opened the refrigerator again.
1:08.0	This is a very intelligent woman, but it consumed the better part of a day for her.
1:13.6	Shella managed to get over that particular compulsion, but some of the more classic OCD symptoms can be a lot harder to get rid of.
1:28.3	Needing to wash and re-wash your hands dozens of times a day,
1:32.3	checking and re-checking, did you lock the door?
1:35.3	Did you turn the lights off?
1:36.3	Did you check the lights?
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