This article is presented as a conversation between two mental health professionals in e-mail format and intends to raise the following questions:
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Does the mental health arena rely too heavily upon the differentiation of conditions rather than seeking to make correlations between them?
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Is obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) screaming for closer scrutiny? If OCD were considered as existing as a ‘symptom’ of many conditions, rather than existing in its own right, how would the approach to treating it be different? Also, how would this affect the treatment of its comorbidities?
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If OCD is a symptom of other conditions, is it possible that a common mechanism (a Universal Vortex) is responsible for the condition’s existence?
