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FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH OCD

Having OCD will not prevent you from achieving great things. Historians suspect that many important people from history might have some form of the disorder, including:

• Ludwig van Beethoven, composer • Sir Winston Churchill, politician • Charles Darwin, scientist • Albert Einstein, scientist • Howard Hughes, businessman • Samuel Johnson, writer

• Michelangelo, artist • Nicola Tesla, scientist

Albert Einstein.

it has to be red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Before taking a test, maybe you tap your desk for good luck. You may not know exactly why you do these things. It just “feels right” to do them. And there is nothing wrong with little rituals like these. Unique habits are part of what make people so interesting! But what if one of your favorite socks went missing, and you got so upset that you couldn’t play in the game at all? What if you couldn’t sleep at night because you kept worrying that the yellow marker had been put in the wrong spot? What if you needed to tap your desk 30 times before every test, and in a certain pattern? And if someone interrupted you, you had to start all over from the beginning? Your ritual would no longer be fun—it would be a problem.