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{{quote|''I have CDO. It's like OCD, but with the letters in alphabetical order -- '''like they're supposed to be.'''''|Chris Addison in ''[[Lab Rats]]''}}
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Recently "upgraded" to [[Acceptable Targets]], someone with Super OCD requires ''ORDER'' in their life. Everything has to match some kind of pattern that they approve of. Lines must be straight, angles must be just the right degree, and the numbers must absolutely match. This doesn't have to be a pattern that [[Insane Troll Logic|makes sense]]. Social skills will be extremely difficult. [[Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training|In some genre]], this comes side-by-side as an [[Equivalent Exchange]] for some kind of [[Good with Numbers|math power]] or [[Hyper Awareness]].
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is frequently misrepresented in fiction. Most people are surprised to find that rituals are not the defining trait of
Can be [[Justified]] if the character has a career in chemistry or something similar, where it really ''is'' crucial to have measurements and such just right.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBhjDgmGrXg This] Japanese short.
* Owen from ''[[Superstar]]''. He has to say and do everything five times.
* The [[Futurama]] movie "Bender's Game, Rosie appears in a [[Bedlam House|mental institute]] [[The Mentally Disturbed|saying "Must clean up! Everything must be clean!]] [[The Loonie|That's why the Dog had to die!]] He was a Dirty dog! Dirty! Dirty! And that [[Would Hurt a Child|boy Elroy!]] Dirty! Dirty! Not only does She have
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* [[Our Vampires Are Different|Vampires]] in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novels are described as being ''very'' focused. Usually, they use this focus to enable them to feed. But the vampires who give up on feeding on human blood soon find out that they have to redirect this focus unto anything that doesn't [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere|remind them of "the B-vord"]]. Collecting seems to be very popular amongst tee-totaling vampires.
** Also in ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'', we are introduced to Stanley. He was raised by peas and is "quite intense" about pins. Later he graduated to stamps, which were made possible thanks to Stanley's obsessive neat pin-sheets. (The regular holes they left were the inspiration for the stamps' perforation)
* In the [[Artemis Fowl]] book ''The Atlantis Complex'', the titular mental disease is this trope [[Played for Drama]]. In stage one the afflicted becomes obsessed with
* The Godspoken on the planet of Path in Orson Scott Card's ''Xenocide'' in the [[Ender's Game]] series were believed to commune with god with their strange rituals. Turns out that {{spoiler|they were all inflicted with OCD by the Starways Congress to balance out their significantly above average intellect and keep them in line}}. Qing-jao's ritual is tracing woodlines until her anxiety and panic goes away. She and the other Godspoken of Path also exhibit other behaviors usually believed to be typical of OCD, such as excessive hand washing. This condition does have the bonus effect of making them very methodical workers; Qing-jao slowly and methodically looks at every possible piece of evidence and becomes the only person to realize {{spoiler|the true identity of Demosthenes and the existence of a creature like Jane. A cure for the OCD is eventually created and spread through Path, letting them retain their brilliance without being subjected to the humilation caused by their rituals}}.
** It should be noted that the priests are fully aware of the existence of OCD. However, the normal drugs that help fight OCD don't work for {{spoiler|the Godspoken}}.
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* Used as a one-off gag in ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze]]'': In episode 7, the [[Power Trio]] are in detention, along with the [[Jerk Jock]] and [[Goth]] girl. When they ask the Goth what she's in for, she explains that she hacked the school computer and deleted every single picture from a school event...because her [[Hair Decorations|hair ribbon]] was slightly off-kilter in '''''one''''' of the pictures.
** Played seriously eight episodes later. The [[Monster of the Week]] is a painter who ''really'' wants his painting to be perfect and will ''petrify anyone who disturbs him'' to get his wish...which includes the sweet little girl trying to help the Glee Club with a cute song about a satellite.
* [[Whitechapel]] has Joseph Chandler, a homicide detective, who is incredibly obsessed with neatness, as well as things being clean. His OCD is bad enough that he often stays at the Homicide Department overnight, making everything neat for the next day...only for him to end up spending the entire night doing this. It should be noted, however, that while most of the examples of
* On ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'' vampires who stop drinking blood try to develop daily patterns and routines so they can stop themselves from constantly thinking about blood and killing. Mitchell tried to build a 'normal' routine life for himself but kept failing. Hal managed to created complex daily rituals for himself and managed to suppress his vampire urges by religiously following them for over 50 years. However, this caused him to cut all contact with the outside world and when his routines are disrupted he becomes violent and unstable.
* While Danny Tanner in ''[[Full House]]'' is generally just a [[Neat Freak]], he reaches
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* Mr Herriman from ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]''.
* Trent from ''[[Total Drama Action]]'', develops a Super OCD obsession with the number 9
* Rabbit from ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' is obsessed with keeping things clean, tidy, and in place and if
* Mechanicles from the ''Aladdin'' animated series. All of his schemes in the show revolve around his need to keep things clean and tidy (melting desert sand to create flawless glass, wiping out a rainforest to destroy all the bugs, "steam-cleaning" the Earth by boiling the oceans, ect.). He also keeps an organized "things to do" list with him at all times. In his debut episode, Aladdin and co. press his [[Berserk Button]] by making a mess in his headquarters as a distraction.
* Breach of ''[[Generator Rex]]'' teleported the city of Greenville, Ohio to a pocket dimension, where she turned it into a ''[[Silent Hill]]''-like "dollhouse." The whole place, while creepy, is very-well organized, with mopeds perfectly aligned in the streets and ice cream trucks carefully stacked on top of each other. Messing the place up is a good way to get her angry, and she wasn't exactly the most stable individual to begin with. {{spoiler|Her OCD is actually so bad that she literally implodes if the destruction gets to be too much for her.}}
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** Twilight Sparkle has some elements of this as well. Just watch pretty much the entirety of "Swarm Of The Century". Also, in "Look Before You Sleep", she's too busy looking up whether or not a tree crashing through the window fits into a slumber party to help shift the tree. Her obsession with order also causes a lot of trouble in "Lesson Zero", like when she makes a huge mess trying to even out the frosting on the cupcakes she ordered for a picnic... which is peanuts compared to [[Sanity Slippage|going crazy]] because she thinks she's going to be late with her weekly friendship report. And at the start of "It's About Time", she's up at three in the morning worrying that she hasn't made time in this month's schedule to prepare ''next month's'' schedule.
*** Twilight's feak-out in Lesson Zero could show her more accurate OCD. She can't stop herself from thinking unwanted and extremely unrealistic thoughts and so she tries with increasing anxiety to stop them.
** Twilight and Rarity have
*** This has led to the fan-theory that unicorns are more susceptible to mental disorders than the other two pony races due to the source of their magic (their horns) being located so close to their brains.
* Bloberta from ''[[Moral Orel]]''. To the point where she scrubs the UNDERSIDE of the floor tiles as well as the surface.
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*** Too many people, and not just TV writers, [[Did Not Do the Research|do not do the research]] when it comes to OCD. Sometimes it does entail needing to take a certain number of steps, wash your hands in a specific way, or any other number of little rituals, but just as often it means that sufferers become quite literally obsessed with specific topics, to the point where they suffer panic attacks, go on angry tangents, have fits of depression, and ''simply cannot stop thinking'' about a given topic. Other sufferers find themselves having horrible, obsessive thoughts that they can't get rid of. Such thoughts are often completely absurd or morally abhorrent, but the sufferer finds that they end up harboring those thoughts anyway, and can be just as horrified by them as any other person who learned about them.
*** To further emphasize the above: People who suffer from OCD in the second way described above (sometimes called "pure-O OCD" to reflect the lack of obvious compulsions) are fully aware of how absurd, pathological, or abhorrent their thoughts are and understand that they have no basis in reality (thus distinguishing these thoughts from psychosis). And elaborating on the explanation of compulsions below: despite how the media portrays OCD as people engaging in seemingly arbitrary and meaningless activities for the hell of it, these activities are carefully calculated to ward off the obsessive thoughts ''precisely because the sufferer knows how abhorrent they would seem to other people.''
*** Actually, the 'signature' of OCD is, in fact, the obsessive thoughts. The
*** Also, what most media present as OCD is really OCPD, Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, which is similar to OCD but where the sufferer may act as these things are rules not just for themselves but for their families, and which is more characterized by the actions than by the obsessive thoughts. [[The Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:OCPD|speaks]].
** OCD is also by definition irrational behavior, which means they have particular idiosyncrasies that offhand don't seem to match up. Someone may spend 10 minutes washing their hands after going to the bathroom but are perfectly fine having dirty dishes in the sink. OCD is based on what the individual perceives as disorder and their behavior is about finding some way to establish order. Since the entire world is very disorderly, managing the disorder is about finding what degree of order is acceptable.
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