People who have anxiety disorders are that way primarily because they have a lot of rage which, for various reasons, they don't want to express directly and which therefore come out in their not wanting to be around others.

Some celebrities who do, and do not, have OCD are identified.

Family are usually both cause and alleviate OCD.

The secret to success is that there is no secret. Be who you are.

Kant was the quintessential obsessive-compulsive philosopher.

To have OCD is to consciously experience the compulsions that others only experience unconsciously. Thus, where the non-obsessive-compulsive has the illusion of freedom, the obsessive-compulsive has the illusion of its absence

The obsessive-compulsive is a crypto-narcissist: he sees the world as revolving around himself, much like a young child, and the presence of others, with their failure to bow down to him, infuriates him.

Because successful OCD-therapy requires such comprehensive changes to the subject, it must be done very frequently, for a fairly long time, with somebody extremely competent.

No, but OCD is a by-product of a male-differentiated brain-structure.

The philosopher is an obsessive-compulsive and the obsessive-compulsive is a philosopher.