 What is up, all you beautiful people? It's Ashley here and today's little video is based on an article called OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It's a term that I think we all have heard of before. It's a mental disorder where people feel the need to check things repeatedly, have certain thoughts repeatedly and feel the need to perform certain routines repeatedly. Overall, they're unable to control these thoughts or actions. OCD is one of the most normalised and misused mental disorder. I'm sure many of us have heard people saying that they have OCD and I'm sure some of us have mistakenly diagnosed ourselves as having OCD. I thought I did because I arranged things according to a colour sequence that I invented back in kindergarten. Basically, you have these continuous and irrational thoughts that just go through your head over and over and over again. The lovely author of this article, Madison Garner, has given us a little example to help us understand how this actually works out. Now picture this man named Mark. He's out grocery shopping and there's this man in the grocery store that gives him a long and cold eclair. Now, when Mark returns home, he becomes paranoid that the man has followed him back even though he hasn't seen the man since leaving the grocery store and there's just no rational reason for him to even believe that the man has followed him back. But despite all that, he cannot shake the fear that the man is out to kill him. And that is the obsession. So his brain convinces him that unless he locks all of his locks 13 times by 8 o'clock, then the man will come and kill him. So Mark will proceed to carry out this act by unlocking and locking each of his doors 13 times by 8 o'clock. And these are compulsions. And therefore people with OCD are often in distress because they realize that their thoughts and rituals are irrational and paranoid, but they can't stop. Now I've stated during the example which are the obsessions and which are the compulsions. Now, if you are missing either one of these two factors, then it doesn't really qualify as OCD. Now all in all, OCD is a very serious mental illness. So if you think that you have OCD or you know someone who has OCD, then please make sure that you get yourself the help that you need or get that person the help that they need. And that is my time. Thank you so much for watching this video. The link to the article, OMG I'm so OCD, is in the description box below.