Celebrities And Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

This post is part of Celebrity Health Week at the b5media Health & Wellness Channel. For more information about Celebrity Health Week posts here at Mental Health Notes, visit Introducing Celebrity Health Week: Celebrities And Mental Illness.

In this Celebrity Health Week post, we’ll take a look at some celebrities who have obsessive-compulsive disorder – or had, in the case of the deceased. We’ll look at actors and actresses, musicians, writers, political figures, and other well-known figures.

Please note that I am not an authority on celebrities and mental illness. For a celebrity to be on this list, either he or or she or a spouse or reliable family member must have publicly discussed – verbally or otherwise – his or her mental illness, or, in the case of the deceased, professionals must have addressed it later on.

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Back in March, I wrote Celebrities With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Smile For The Camera! as part of the I Must Shave My Legs: The OCD Miniseries here at Mental Health Notes.

While it would be a bit redundant to re-list those famous people with OCD, I will point you in the direction of a few Web sites that go into detail about each celebrity’s obsessions and compulsions or offer a few more names to add to the list of celebrities with OCD:

• 12 Obsessive Celebs – A Life Less Disorder-nary
• Here to Help: Famous People with OCD
• OCD in the Media
• Celebrities with OCD
• Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation: In the Media

Stay tuned for information about obsessive-compulsive disorder, political figures and mental illness, and celebrities and suicide.

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