OCD – celebrity illness

Justin Timberlake has revealed a very delicate private detail about his life. He said to Collider.com:

I have OCD mixed with ADD. You try living with that. It’s complicated.”

To those, who don’t know what that is I’ll explain.

The problem of Attention Deficit Disorder is not inattention, but over-attention. Person with over-focused form of ADD tends to get stuck on thoughts or behaviors and they have trouble shifting their attention from thought to thought. Attention deficit is often reffered as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

David Beckham, Jessica Alba and Cameron Diaz have all admitted to suffering from OCD – psychiatric anxiety disorder often characterized by obsessive thoughts, compulsions or rituals.

Whatever! This is so laim to claim you have OCD, only when it’s coming from JT it’s cute. He says:

I get butterflies. You just kind of get caught up in the electricity of it. Oh, yeah, that still happens to this day. And when that stops happening, you should stop. It’s addictive, you know what I mean?”

The 27-year-old super star revealed the condition affects many parts of his daily life. He is irritated making sure objects are always lined up perfectly.

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1. Emily Says:
   September 25th, 2010 at 7:10 pm

   I think it’s incredibly insensitive of you to say “whatever! This is so lame to claim you have OCD,” because OCD is a real problem that detrimentally effects many people’s lives. It’s true that many people inappropriately describe themselves as OCD when really they just like things to be neat, but that doesn’t make people who actually have OCD “lame” or “fake.” Maybe JT really does have OCD. You shouldn’t say “aww, how cute,” you should empathize.
   Try not to dismiss serious so much. Have a nice day.