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The best question I read yesterday
If you already wrote a memoir about having obsessive compulsive disorder a few years back, are you allowed to publish a new memoir about your hypochondria?
That is from Bookslut.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on January 31, 2008 at 02:23 PM in Books | Permalink
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I think it is both logically and medically consistent for someone to publish memoirs of obsessive compulsive disorder, hypochondria, and other crazy symptoms as long as he/she tops them up with a memoir of multipolar disorder. It is like a Ph.D thesis consisting of several disjointed and potentially contradictory essays united by a crazy theme.
Posted by: Yan Li at Jan 31, 2008 2:53:12 PM
After a little amazon research, my suspicions were confirmed--I totally read that memoir of OCDness. For what it's worth, I have long known I had OCD and in the past couple years have been having some moderate hypochondria. I don't see how the two don't go together. I am just obsessing about my health instead of counting things or whatever.
Posted by: nicole at Jan 31, 2008 3:50:35 PM
As someone who has suffered from both OCD and
Hypochondria, they are very much related.
The cure is often similar as well
Posted by: Doug E Fresh at Jan 31, 2008 4:46:37 PM
How many different weight loss ideas has Oprah put into print?
Posted by: ZBicyclist at Jan 31, 2008 7:59:17 PM
A denial of one's eventual demise, and a fear of living in the present. A fear of failure, and a denial of ones' right to
succeed. Opposites on each spectrum, but having the very same impulse - an avoidance of the unknown.
Posted by: TomG at Jan 31, 2008 8:05:27 PM
I recently asked a fellow runner if he felt that he obsessed about his running. He replied, "I find that if I run every day, I don't obsess about it." Works for me.
Posted by: Fly Fisher at Feb 1, 2008 1:37:00 AM
The best question? Really? If paranoids can really be persecuted, can't hypochondriacs actually get sick? And if OCD is an illness, why can't they both exist in the same body? What am I missing here?
Posted by: SoxFan at Feb 1, 2008 3:26:14 PM
No, but you can publish your OCD book over and over.
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