Perrilloux has OCD?

by TheJeezus on May 20, 2008 4:04 PM CDT

So biting your fingernails and picking at scabs constitutes OCD?

"That’s what was wrong with me because I always used to pop my jaw and used to pick at my skin, bite my nails,” he said.

Yeah, you and every teenager I've ever met. Look, I don't want to trivialize what is a very real and very debilitating disorder, but something tells me that the only OCD symptoms this kid exhibits is being a compulsive douchebag.

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He had earaches & that constituted OCD?? Do OCD sufferers typically go to bars & get into fights? I’m thinking more of Jack Nicholson’s character, ala “as good as it gets” stepping on sidewalk line after sidewalk line. What a loser. It’s been in vogue for too long for wayward athletes or hard-core criminals to blame their behavior on the maladies of the truly mentally disabled.

by HalfmileHorn on May 20, 2008 4:42 PM CDT reply actions

I believe the Nicholson character had obsessive-compulsive personality disorder which is different.

by Bob LaBlog on May 20, 2008 4:52 PM CDT up reply actions

yeah, most people confuse the two...

Though if you have OCD, it’s usually pretty obvious. If you have an obsession, it’s usually something really severe, like thinking the devil is going to kill you. It has to be more than just an obsession about an everyday thing, and they can’t be based on reality.

If you have compulsions, then you feel that you have to perform repetitive tasks, usually to prevent the obsessions from happening. So, for example, you have to wash your hands 50 times a day so the devil won’t kill you.

If you have OCPD, you are usually overly concerned with perfection, so that you don’t like when things aren’t the way they’re supposed to be.

This is most of what I remember from my UT psychology degree, at least as it related to these disorders. I believe Jack Nicholson’s character did have OCD, because he did perform ritualistic tasks like hand washing and avoiding cracks, and these things were irrational, because in reality nothing bad happens to you if you step on a crack. But he also had some characteristics of OCPD in his rigidity and meticulousness.

Ha, that’s my bored-at-work super-brief psychology lesson for the day.

by hornbone on May 20, 2008 5:24 PM CDT up reply actions

hornbone needs to contact the writer of that article and set him straight

I didn’t know there was two different diagnoses, OCD and OCPD. You learn something new every day.

That article is odd. It seems as if the author wants to blame Perriloux’s issues on his OCD, but Perriloux claims that wasn’t the program, and then ends the article with his mother and him saying he doesn’t have OCD. Okay, if you don’t have it, why bring it up?

It is nice to know where Jack Crowe is now, though.

by Beergut on May 21, 2008 3:51 AM CDT up reply actions

Perriloser is right!

No one gets themselves into that many incidents with out being a bad apple to begin with; thank God he didn’t come to Texas. My favorite part of the article is where it talks Perriloux’s scholarship papers with Jacksonville State not being binding until he enrolls for class. Apparently he is still getting scholarship offers from other schools. But Perilloux says:

"I’m not going anywhere… I’m a man of my word. I told coach Crowe I was coming. And the next day I signed and I’m here."

Man of his word, huh?

On another note, how old must you be to be a Man of Your Word? 40?

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by Speedway on May 21, 2008 7:57 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs

Jack Crowe

I played 7th grade football with his kid when Jack was coaching at Arkansas. Coach Crowe showed up to every practice and was careful to stay out of the way of the two dumbass volunteers that we had coaching us. He always seemed like a good guy who was in the wrong situation up there.

by Bob LaBlog on May 23, 2008 11:56 AM CDT up reply actions