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Ocd Case Study Abnormal Psychology

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Well everyone suffers from one thing or another. A man named Melvin and a young lady named Tara are no different. Both of them suffer from an Obsessive compulsive-disorder. There disorder may have the same name but the way they respond to their disorder is quite different.

Tara Sullivan is a fourteen year old who lives in a suburb in Chicago with her mother and father. She has four childhood friends named Keesha, Donna, Anna, Kristin. Tara suffers from a self diagnosed OCD.
Melvin Udall lives in a apartment in New York alone. He does not have any family members around. The closest thing he has to friends is Simon Bishop who is his gay artist who is also his neighbor who lives by himself with a dog named Verdell. The local diner waitress …show more content…

The only people that Melvin associates with is Simon his neighbor and Carroll the waitress and the dog Verdell. Accept he is not very friendly with them.
Tara counts the cracks and refuses to step on them because she feels it will break her mother's back. She counts the cracks on her way to school every morning if she is interrupted she repeats it until she gets it right.
Melvin locks his door and unlocks door until he counts to five. He thinks out loud without any filter. Is afraid of change he does not like other people being in his apartment at first.
Tara’s OCD drifts her friends away from her and to her throughout the entire book the only friend that seems to stick with her is Donna until she gets sent away by her parents. Her other friends are ashamed to be friends with her at certain parts of the book. Her parents are driven to drink. Tara does not make it easy for them to be happy so they both turn to drinking. Because they are so worn out from Tara. They also resort to arguing a lot.
Melvin does not have any friends or family around for the simple fact that he is rude to everyone he meets. Melvin makes Simon upset during most of the movie saying hateful things to him because Melvin does not like the fact that Simon is gay. He upsets Carroll about talking about her son dying not knowing that her son is

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