Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD for short, has affected numerous people; one being Jeff Bell, the author of the book Rewind, Replay, Repeat: A memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. This book has much insight on OCD and touches many interesting facts that some people would never know prior to reading.

Rewind, Replay, Repeat is a book written from the author, Jeff Bell’s, point of view. The book is a reflection of Bell’s life and how he has coped while living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Bell is a famous and very successful radio star that has a big secret many people do not know about. From the outside Bell looks like he has it all together, without any insecurity or doubts in the world, but deep down in his ashamed and insecure interior, lies the secret of his obsessions and compulsive activity. His OCD controls him making everything he does obsessive and contradicting. As the title Rewind, Replay, Repeat declares, Bell’s case of OCD is repetitive and enormously mind controlling. (Bell, 2007)

In the book the author Jeff Bell covers all aspects of his life, starting at his first act of OCD as a child, all the way to his compulsive lifestyle in his adult years. His first encounter with OCD was at the young age of seven, when he was with his mother and sister walking down the street. He heard “HEY” coming from a passing car. Bell didn’t know who it was that said it, so he decided to ask his mother about it; who was uncertain to what he was even talking about. The thought of him not knowing who it was or who said it controlled him and almost forced him to constantly ask who it was, frustrating his mother. He was never satisfied with his mother’s answer; “I don’t know” or “You will probably never know”. In the tex...

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