Monday, 11 September 2017

Don't medicalize everything !

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2017 (19 to 26 October)
(Click here to go directly to the Festival web-site)


11 September

Just try getting diagnosed with OCD...



Maybe - at that time in your life - you were obsessively making sure that you could remember the number-plate of every car of which you had been the registered keeper...

But a low-level mental-health worker showed you the diagnostic criteria for OCD, and it was straightaway clear that this 'obsession' about the number-plates did not go on to have almost any of the consequences that were required for a formal diagnosis of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder : we have probably all left the house at some point, and worried about whether we left the oven or coffee-maker on, but this really wasn't OCD.






Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)

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