What is so funny about obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)? Paul Cefalu, a professor of English at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, asked that question in a 2009 article that analysed why OCD is so frequently, and unfairly, represented in the media with "humor and levity". Unlike other mental-health disorders, such as depression and schizophrenia, those who suffer from obsessions and compulsions, Cefalu wrote, "can always be counted on to make us laugh".
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