obsessive-compulsive

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Recent Examples of obsessive-compulsive There, he was diagnosed with unspecified bipolar disorder and related disorders, autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and PTSD, per the records. Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024 The clinic was roughly two years into treating Rainy, who had been diagnosed with prolonged grief, anxiety, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Hannah Bassett, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2024 In a Runner’s World profile ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Marathon Trials in 2020, Seidel talked about how dealing with depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and an eating disorder had affected her as an athlete. Julie Kliegman, Outside Online, 9 Sep. 2024 Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are conditions that affect how a person thinks and behaves. Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 1 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for obsessive-compulsive 
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Adjective
  • The story centers on Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), a neurotic college student who survives by never straying from the set of rules he’s outlined for himself.
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Outlining a plan for world domination would have been too neurotic.
    Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Pic follow Vietnam veteran Jonathan Teller, who suffers from guilt and paranoid delusions.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Director Satoshi Kon uses the medium to his advantage, to be sure, utilizing the reality-bending possibilities of animation to take viewers inside his heroine's paranoid, fractured headspace.
    Katie Rife, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.
    Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • The third film about the sociopathic clown largely repeats the pros and cons of the last movie — killer makeup effects and a great performance buried in a repetitive flick with a story that’s impossible to care about — but that’s more than enough for fans of this increasingly popular franchise.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • This might also explain why sociopathic tendencies -- which are thought to be partially hereditable -- have been found in some four percent of CEOs compared with around one percent of the general population.
    Daniel Falkiner, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2014
Adjective
  • Thus did the conservative loose cannonballs come eventually to dominate the GOP—and define our disordered political era.
    Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld / Made by History, TIME, 10 June 2024
  • It is associated with hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impairs daily functioning, and can be disabling.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
Adjective
  • Between all the red carpets, festivals and interviews, Ronan is feeling delirious.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
  • His third directorial venture, The Host, is a delirious, exciting, funny, and at times quite terrifying genre mash-up with a side of social commentary.
    Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • However, a late-October rally in Trump’s odds was a result of aberrant betting behavior from just 1% of Polymarket’s users, according to Bloomberg.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But Trump’s conduct has been so aberrant for so long that separating genuine deterioration from routine volatility is no easy task—on what basis does one judge oscillations in something without precedent in public life?
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Eisenberg, who co-stars here with Kieran Culkin, wrote himself a role that suits him ever so well, playing the by-the-book, uptight David, a married man with a reliable job and a reliable life.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • But Reba is her usual sitcom-esque spitfire self: sharp, uptight, on her game, and loaded with zingers.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024

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