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It’s crazy how much his Parkinson’s has advanced since then. I feel so bad for him.
As someone who’s been diagnosed with OCD, that scream in the video is awfully familiar to me đ
During my worst times it really is like that. You just want to go to sleep because you’re exhausted but you just can’t stop doing the rituals (in the video it’s the handwashing & turning the light off) because there’s always something that didn’t go like it was “supposed to”.
And if it doesn’t go “like it was supposed to”, your mind’s going to just yell that some bad stuff’s going to happen, like Earth’s going to get sucked into a black hole and it is because of you, you are at fault, if only you had done the ritual (like washing hands) correctly! In the back of your head you *know* that to be bullshit, like, what a ridiculous thought, but you still do the ritual…because what if it isn’t bullshit after all? You don’t want the guilt if you are wrong. Maybe it is possible that Earth gets sucked into a black hole because I didn’t wash my hands 100% correct way…. so perhaps it is better to just try to wash them again, I mean, wash hands vs. bad stuff happens, it is such a small thing to do so sure…maybe it goes right this time… or the 50th time…or 51st… or 52nd… maybe 53rd try goes right… nope, messed up a detail again, maybe 54th? Etc. …. You’re stuck in a loop.
It is such an illogical illness. During compulsions you are constantly shouting to yourself in your mind to just stop and move on but it is just so difficult. Before I started to have OCD symptoms years ago I couldn’t even imagine this type of hell. Stuff you don’t NORMALLY even pay any attention suddenly became stuff you couldn’t ignore because otherwise you couldn’t really even function (impossible to focus on things etc.) because you’d have your mind full of yelling about how things are going to go wrong and so on.
I’ve literally had to sleep on the bathroom’s tile floor because I couldn’t get through the handwashing ritual correctly, and if I had gone to bed at that time (essentially ignoring the ritual) the next rituals would’ve been so much worse (as in, wash every piece of clothing, scrub clean every surface that I touched when I was ‘contaminated’ etc.).
Obviously I’ve worked on the OCD stuff (I would love to be healthy and not deal with this OCD) with things like exposure and response prevention (ERP) stuff but unfortunately OCD is still a constant struggle for me. Which is why I’m not a fan of people glorifying this illness even though I’m fairly sure that most of those jokes are just because people don’t know better.
So yeah. I wish OCD was just this quirky thing where you’re just super organized about stuff and get slightly annoyed if stuff’s not in orderly fashion. Maybe my day to day life wouldn’t be so awful that way :/
The writing and casting absolutely crushed that episode. It was a perfect guest role for Fox and he really made the most of it.
Iâve always enjoyed that show. Iâve always heard it was one of the most accurate portrayals of healthcare too.
Watching my daughter cope with her OCD before she got treatment was a nightmare.
Watching her having to check things, seemingly nonsensical things, over and over, watching her have a full blown meltdown when she can’t do her checks, watching her TRY and stop like Fox’s character did, it was just heartbreaking.
Definitely notice his parkinsons as lot in this scene. Such a shitty disease, wish him the best.
i think it:s crazy parkinsoon has advace since ..
Truth. Itâs so fucking hard, and miserable. In my case I tend to be more on the obsessive side, so less outward ritualizing and more hellish loops in my head. That yell was spot on. You KNOW youâre being irrational. Part of your brain is begging, pleading, sobbing for a break. The rest of your brain canât stop.
Between this clip and the new Joel Haver video I’m having quite an emotional reddit day.
One of the episodes I can’t stop watching, up there with “Where do you think we are?” – no spoilers but it guts me every time. Scrubs is still one of the best shows ever to grace television, IMO nothing else has ever reached the same combination of humor, seriousness, honesty, and character development. Bill has never quite been able to capture the magic again, although Ted Lasso and Shrinking have come close at times.
First time I was exposed to OCD I saw this guy on the bus walking up and down the bus touching every single pole and counting them. I asked him what it was and he told me it was OCD, and he was in good spirits, but I can’t imagine how annoying that is for him. He must’ve walked back and forth the bus 30 times while I was watching him. I was like 10 years old so it was very strange to me.
You mean it’s not being oh so quirky and random because I *HAVE* to a specific starbucks beetus-bomb every morning and my day is ruined if I don’t?
Scrubs was an absolutely incredible television show. I had a high school girlfriend who told me that âGreyâs Anatomyâ was very true to life when it came to what life in a hospital was like. She laughed me off when I said it was probably much more like Scrubs.
As time marched on, I can proudly say that I was spot on.
Parkinson’s really robbed tv and movies of one of the greatest actors of a generation. I honestly cannot think of a single appearance by Micheal J Fox that isn’t great. Sometimes its lighthearted and fun, sometimes its serious and heartbreaking, but he’s never not delivered exactly what was needed on screen.
As someone with OCD too, this scene sticks out in my mind.
It’s so exhausting.
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Here’s a poem I like:
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>”‘I have to sort my books!’ she cried,
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>With self-indulgent glee;
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>With senseless, narcissistic pride:
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>’I’m just so OCD!’
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>’How random, guys!’ I smiled and said,
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>Then left without a peep –
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>And washed my hands until they bled,
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>And cried myself to sleep.”
/u/poem_for_your_sprog
[Source](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/29qfnm/comment/cinik24/?context=3)
This is why it bothers me when every random person self diagnosis themselves with OCD not realizing that agonizing over grammar on a presentation at work is very different than the debilitating nature that actual OCD presents when properly diagnosed. This is again one of those episodes that deserves a standing ovation for the cast and crew and writers because it was exemplary.
The Soft White Underbelly interview of Steve the OCD clown is a fascinating window into the madness that OCD can be.
https://youtu.be/lJrXLRQkSqs
it doesn’t always present like this. mine I get ‘stuck’ if I can’t finish the process. many times, pushing forward in that process even if it takes an enormous amount of time and makes zero sense, because it means I can finish.
two different examples come to mind
I was having a performance review with my boss, he made a comment about something, and I had a document detailing everything. except my laptop was off because it was a face to face meeting. when I opened it, it took forever to turn on. then the file wasnt where it should be. this made the conversation drag out and have a lot of awkward silence. my boss more and more wanted to just move on to the next point, but I HAD to show him, even after we had moved on, I was totally disengaged and still looking for it. a good 15 min of the meeting was wasted getting this doc to display one point, which wasn’t terribly significant. I knew its priority in the conversation, and that I should move on, but I couldn’t.
another one
my team always sat at one of two middle table rows in the cafeteria, and usually we sat in the same order, and facing the same ways. just something that subconsciously happened over time. one day, a lady was sitting where I normally would and I didn’t notice until I was standing behind her. I could have easily sat on the other end, or across, or politely asked her if she could scoot down one seat, but I froze. I have no issue speaking in public or anything like that, it was that my brain was hit too quickly with the need to finish and couldnt process what needed to be done. the awkwardness was palpable and she moved over when she saw me looming there. I felt terrible, and couldn’t do anything but sit down.
Unreal. I just watched this episode.
I do think this scene is touching but also a bit funny in its presentation. Like JD just stands there staring at the guy in his darkest moment. Leave him alone JD this isnât the place to have a touching internal monologue.
Scrubs hits the feels and is still my #1
The “I just want to go home” really hit me because my compulsions ALWAYS made us late for so long. My husband would try to get us out for family events on time by helping with me with my compulsions like checking the stove and checking that the door was locked. Sometimes I’d hold us up checking the door 30 times. Once or twice I even made him turn around on the road to drive me home so I could check a handful of times again. My husband has let a frustrated scream out like Michael J Fox in this scene so many times. It feels so bad to just like stress out someone you love so much over something you can’t help, really makes you feel like you are spiraling.
SSRIs have helped a lot, but the side effects are rather unpleasant. I would love to be able to not have to take them someday.
If you are struggling with OCD, recovery is possible through treatment. Look into Exposure and Response preventation therapy.
Man, I miss Michael J Fox as an actor so much, I know he still does work rarely, but I can’t help but wonder about all the wonderful work he would have done if not for fucking Parkinson’s Disease, not to mention the toll on his personal life
Dammit. Now I’m gonna have to rewatch this show for the 9th time. It just hits real.
Growing up, my mom had really bad OCD. It presented a bit like this at its worst moments. I appreciated this episode for portraying what it can be like. It wasnât quirky and fun, it was debilitating
When I was in high school, like many other shitty kids, I would say similarly. We wanted to be quirky and it was just what people said when they wanted to keep things organized.
Then when I was working I watched through Scrubs and came to this episode. It had been a long time since I’d last said something like it but I’d never realized just to what magnitude I’d been misusing it. Since then I’ve been much more conscious of the disorder’s reality and have tried to correct people who use it incorrectly if it pops up around me.
Also, turns out my desire for everything to have a specific place did have a cause, autism. Who’da thunk?
One of the greatest shoes ever produced.
I know a guy with severe OCD who had an episode while he was driving, he went into a roundabout and he couldn’t turn out of it, he had a full tank of gas, he literally had to call the police to come and help him, he would have drove around that thing all day long. It’s some scary shit.
This was a great episode. Thatâs why I liked Scrubs so much: they were mostly funny but they hit on a lot of serious issues in a mature and respectful way.
Michael J Fox did an amazing job
damn i forgot michael j fox was in the show briefly.
scrub is suchs solid comedy with really touching real momments. dr cox parent passing being of the the biggest for me personally.
My OCD revolves around the number 4, or multiples of it. Every night before bed, I’d have to unlock and relock every door in the house in a specific sequence, 4 times. Because what if I missed one? What if I miscounted, what if I didn’t press the lock hard enough? Well, then I had to do them all another 12 times to make 16, a perfect 4×4. Guess what happens if I feel like I screwed that up? Yup, 64.
Same with washing my hands, flipping light switches, number of pats when I pet my dog, number of times I scratch an itch, number of times I check the alarm on my phone, on and on.
I remember being late to school because I’d step on a sidewalk crack which for some reason was unacceptable to me, so I’d have to sit there and step on it 4, 8, 16, maybe 64 times or else I’d be thinking about it all day.
People, OCD is NOT just liking to be tidy. It can sometimes be a part, but that makes in comparison to the “rituals” that real OCD causes
Try the book Brain Lock by Jeffery Schwartz! That book changedy life. Obviously therapy and proper techniques helped as well but the book was icing on the cake! Best of luck and keep push those boundaries remember once you solve one compulsion another will pop up just try to be ready for it.