The mental disorder would continue without outside stimulus - true.

It might not manifest itself as an eating disorder, however.

For instance, my mother and her twin sister both have OCD. My mother is a "cleaner". Her house is immaculate - she vacuums at least once a day EVERY day. My aunt is a "germophobe". Lysol, anti-bacterical soap, the whole bit. Both of them have a similar mental disorder, a genetic predisposition to OCD. Several people in my family have it. Including their mother.

Their mother was a farm wife. To say the house was "disorganized" is probably being kind. She couldn't have been farther from the "cleaner" and "germophobe" archetypes. So why did they manifest the way they did? Could it be the environment they grew up in?

Good way to measure the world. :rolleyes:

Hmmm...

So you became a network admin nazi, and BB mod...how interesting!

:D

Interestingly enough, I don't have OCD. Years of living with an obsessive cause me to develop ADD.

uh-huh, sure ...

I never developed the compulsion component. ;)

20% of all people with OCD have no compusions... But unless you're having to lock your door 4 times every night, or can't stop thinking about horrible things happening, chances are you're just a neatfreak.

Moooo

and 100% of me thinks you're a sagging kunt sack

Can you really have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder without the compulsive part?

it was a trick, he actually said "compusions"

:titus:

Sure, I understand that. The human mind is incredibly complex and I have no idea why people develop particular compulsions over others. I think once the compulsion is developed it's not going to morph into another direction without some serious therapy, though. I don't believe a person with an eating disorder would respond by converting it because no one else is there to compare herself to.

Yes, the DSM doesn't say its necessary, though as I said before, 80% of peoople do.

Moooo

I don't sag much at all. I'm still young, though so...

Moooo

Ah, I wasn't implying that a person with an eating disorder would CHANGE. Sorry. I was implying they likely wouldn't develop an eating disorder in the 1st place.

It's not OCD without the O and the C. Someone like me, who has no obvious outward compulsion is classified as clinically obsessive.

Actually, I'm not a neatfreak at all. It's no coincidence that I'm the opposite, I'm not neat at all.

Like I said, I have ADD. That, combined with obsession, is pretty interesting. For instance, I brought up in an XBox 360 thread that I only play one game at a time. I actually sometimes get games and play all the way through them in less than a week before moving on to the next one.