OCD exists?
Does it?
The psychological patterns are so similar in many "cases" of OCD.
Surely it can be said to exist if only as a metaphorical illness.
It has no biological cause or biological existence therefore it does not exist strictly speaking.
And as has been said before a metaphorical illness is a metaphor and not an illness.
It is absurd to say one person "has OCD" or "mild OCD" and another person does not "have" it.
It is totally normal psychological patterns and tendencies that we all have that have gone haywire.
Everyone - or everyone responsible - can check the back door is locked before they go out.
So anyone can do it ten times.
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Such thought patterns may constitute a brain disease of some kind but there is no evidence for this.
And to say that OCD is a brain disease is not justified at the present time.
There is no evidence that OCD is a disease of any kind so it can't really be a brain disease.
It is probable that all it is is activity in the upper brain or cortex - and probably normal activity at that.
to be continued...
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If the mind is entirely sustained and created by brain biology then surely everything in the mind has a biological cause? and a biological footprint?
This may be true but it is possible for psychological and/or mental events to have no biological cause and for them to have only a neurological or memory footprint???
When I scratch my nose because it itches - does this have a biological cause? no. In so much as my free decision to scratch my nose is free and does not have a biological cause....
see previous blog about the mind....
Does it leave a biological footprint? no. it is a normal body process.