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As mentioned above, generally one type of obsession produces a certain compulsion, sort of a cause and effect situation. Obsessive thoughts of contamination and being dirty would usually result in compulsive hand washing and/or showering, for example. One book describing the life of someone suffering from this specific obsession, thus resulting in that compulsion, is The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing, by Judith L. Rapoport, M.D. Not only does it focus on the experience and treatment of this specific case of OCD, but it also describes a woman who feels as though she must check her stove hundreds of times a day to make sure she has turned it off, as well as a woman who eventually plucks out every single hair in both eyebrows, in an attempt to ensure that her eyebrows are symmetrical.
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