Obsessive-compulsive disorder can be a debilitating disease that grows if a person gratifies the impulses it sometimes causes. I recently read Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior by Dr. Jeffery M. Schwartz. He specifically provides the speculated physiology behind OCD. For example, how the caudate nucleus and basal ganglia are involved in the disorder. He describes it in layman’s terms by telling the reader to visualize it as either a gate that gets stuck and allows primitive anxieties to escape into the frontal lobe, or as a stick shift in a car that constantly gets stuck. He also shares a proven approach to manage OCD and “unstick” the gear shift: relable, reattribute, refocus, and revalue. These steps help the person
