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| | Obsessive-compulsive disorder - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | The popular media rarely portrays sufferers as how they truly are — locked in a debilitating cycle of meaningless rituals that they feel compelled to perform despite recognizing their senselessness. |
 | | During the process of remaking Judy, Kim Novak, into Elster's wife, Madeline in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, Scottie, James Stewart, seems to show the OCD characteristics of inflexibility ; preoccupation with details, rules, and lists; reluctance to allow others to do things; and restrictive expression of affection (until Judy was recreated into Madeline). |
 | | The film is notorious for its unrealistic, Hollywood portrayal of OCD symptoms. |
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