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A fortnight ago, a psychologist gave me a life-changing diagnosis: obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD - a serious mental health condition characterised by obsessive thoughts.

Taboo OCD is a common theme in OCD and also involve intrusive thoughts and images. Here's how it's different from other forms of OCD.

Obsessive thoughts: Constant preoccupation with screens and the desire to use them. Withdrawal symptoms: Experiencing anxiety, irritability, or depression when unable to access devices.

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But OCD is a serious, often debilitating mental health disorder that can cause intrusive, repetitive, and obsessive thoughts and behaviors. Perhaps most frustrating of all?

People who are always reeling in their small obsessive minds, constantly fixated on who is attractive and whom they can have sex with, have such low, dull energy that people naturally avoid them.