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Obsessive compulsive disorder traps its sufferer in an endless cycle of doubt and rituals invented to combat it. And one side effect, persistent hand washing, now seems almost normal in light of H1N1 flu precautions.

A psychologist and a broadcaster who's worked to overcome OCD talk about the way the disorder is viewed and the therapy that seems to work.