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Liz Spikol is senior contributing editor of Philadelphia Weekly. She writes the award-winning column The Trouble With Spikol, which began as a chronicle of her struggle with mental illness, and has since expanded into humorous musings on everything from graphic novels to how to use a mop. She also writes the paper's book review column, Lit Gloss. This blog -- named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 by PsychCentral -- is about mental illness policy, news, personal journeys and more.
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It's certainly neat but why bother. Given the difficulty in getting evidence-based treatment for OCD, does knowing that one has a genetic predisposition to OCD do anything more than create fodder for the very obsessing than many of us with OCD experience. Knowledge is power only when it is actionable.
Posted by: Joe | November 26, 2007 11:47 PM