Could obsessive compulsive disorder be used as an advantage?

Answer 1

If it can be controlled enough that you can not waste all your time in repetitive behavior, yes, any job requiring serious attention to detail, OCD could be an advantage. OCDer's who do better in our society are usually the control freak types, not the ones that wash their hands 50 times a day.

I have know some good scientists and engineers who are control freaks. If you can get past the difficulty of working with them it can be very productive.

DK

Answer 2

As a mental health professional with 20+ years experience, now retired, I can tell you unequivocally YES!! Many of the higher educated and higher paid individuals have an obessive-compulsive disorder to one extent or another, especially ones in the medical field or pharmaceutical industry, and legal field, or other very advanced technical field. OCD is somewhat required to advance in those fields, the payoff (literally and figuratively), is well known. To some extent, any advanced degree requires some OCD in order to achieve the degree with respectable grades and have a successful career. Law Enforcement officers also require OCD to an extent in order to do the best job they can, and stay alive. Advance military personnel also must have some OCD to succeed. A lot of negative stuff has been spewed out about OCD, but discipline, which requires some OCD, is a very necessary personal quality, even though it may not be particularly popular among younger people or certain less-than-well-disciplined individuals. Don't throw it out entirely. It has it's benefits. God Bless you.

Answer 3

No obsessive compulsive disorder can't used as an advantage because it is like an illness it's annoying it's a reversed condition.Some of their family will be affected and suffered of it.

Answer 4

Yes and no. It depends on how bad your Obessive compulsive disorder is. Some people are able to control it, which is good. And some look at it as being passionate about something. As long as it doesn't run your life it can be a good thing, but if you cannot control your disorder it is bad.

Answer 5

There's an episode of Scrubs where they suggest it could - he reads the same pages of his textbook over and over again, and learns the stuff better, and ends up being a better doctor (Michael J Fox).

But I think they just made that up.

I don't think it could be used as an advantage - in fact, I don't think it can be "used" at all. Its not something you can control - you can't decide to become obsessive about something.

EDIT: hahaha saxman... you're talking about Monk, right? Great show!

Answer 6

Maybe in tasks that require meticulous detail, or repetition. One could learn to tolerate the condition by channeling the obsessiveness for work, or study.

Answer 7

yeah, you can clean things really great. maybe people with OCD could work with chemicals to clean some hazardous things or they could sterilize the stuff in hospitals.

or they can do some very accurate things in work, cause usually they need to check everything many times, otherwise they go crazy.

Answer 8

Sure, if your OCD involves being neat and organized. Become a professional/personal organizer.

Answer 9

The only advantege I can see is that it sometimes casuses people to need to clean, so they would have a clean house and probably not get sick as much

Answer 10

soemtimes it works as an advantage for me... but not most of the time =[ but... when something annoys me i am allowed to just get up and go... just like that! it's not worth what OCD has caused me though.