Afraid you might be becoming a germaphobe?

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From https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/25/us/brain-wound-eliminates-man-s-mental-illness.html

Brain Wound Eliminates Man's Mental Illness

AP
Feb. 25, 1988

A mentally ill young man who shot himself in the head in a suicide attempt suffered a brain injury that apparently eliminated his phobia of germs and his obsession with washing his hands, doctors say.

The .22-caliber slug destroyed the section of the brain responsible for his disabling obsessive-compulsive behavior without causing any other brain damage, his doctor said in a report in Physician's Weekly, a British journal of psychiatry. Victims of the disorder typically have an inexplicable compulsion to repeat activities over and over.

The afflicted man, now a straight-A college student, tried to kill himself five years ago, when he was 19 years old, said Dr. Leslie Solyom, a psychiatrist at Shaughnessy Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia. Effects of His Behavior

The man, identified only as George, washed his hands hundreds of times a day and took frequent showers, Dr. Solyom said. The behavior had forced him to drop out of school and quit his job.

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[Arkansas Granny]

1. That's a pretty drastic cure.

[SheltieLover]

2. Indeed!

Maybe will give medical specialists a clue of which brain regions to target (no pun intended) with meds.

My preference is neurotherapy for such client disorders. 👍

[lunasun]

3. I used to work with someone like that so I could see how it lead to hisjob loss .One thing the guy

at work would do is any orders or paper work he would say to leave it at his desk but he wouldn’t touch it for 1-2 days and no one was sick there .
The work requested often needed prompt action so I forget how it went down because he was doing so many other odd things and of course he was being harassed by a few too who pranked him a lot .
But fired or quit , he didn’t last long and yeah a lot of time in the bathroom . He’d leave the main entrance to the men’s room ajar when entering and others would knock it shut (as it really was supposed to be at the place) and announce he’s trapped again !
I was glad to lose a difficult coworker even though it was obvious there was something wrong with him but he could not perform duties we all shared