Lena Dunham's Girls also depicts OCD, most memorably in the grisly season two episode where Hannah's counting compulsion leads her to try to poke a Q-tip at her ear eight times.
Where did Hannah's sudden counting compulsion come from?
Storch et al. [ 47] found that OCD patients without a tic disorder had significantly more contamination obsessions, sexual obsessions, and counting compulsions than youth with comorbid tics.
When tics are present in patients with OCD, the patients are predominantly males, have an earlier age of symptoms onset [7], [8] and a higher frequency of sensory phenomena preceding RB [9], [10]; repetitive thoughts and behaviours are mostly characterised by religious obsessions or cleaning, washing or counting compulsions [11] [13].
By the end of the course, however, she noticed that considerably fewer counting compulsions occurred during the sessions.
The second factor, which reflected an obsessive dimension, represented 13% of the variance and was composed of aggressive, sexual and somatic obsessions, associated with counting compulsions; all loadings ranged from 0.54 to 0.86.
For instance, the counting compulsions, included in the second factor in our study (loading 0.56), could also be associated with the symmetry/ordering factor (loading 0.49) usually observed in previous reports.
But if human beings have, as Schwarz believes, a "compulsion to count, to quantify the world around them," then they are hard-wired to be baseball fans.
Remember, taking venture capital should be a choice, not a compulsion.
What's the difference between an addiction and a compulsion?
