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The Universal Vortex

ADD Support, The Orchard Clinic, Berks, UK

This article is presented as a conversation between two mental health professionals in e-mail format and intends to raise the following questions:

1. 1. Does the mental health arena rely too heavily upon the differentiation of conditions rather than seeking to make correlations between them?
   
2. 2. Is obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) screaming for closer scrutiny? If OCD were considered as existing as a ‘symptom’ of many conditions, rather than existing in its own right, how would the approach to treating it be different? Also, how would this affect the treatment of its comorbidities?
   
3. 3. If OCD is a symptom of other conditions, is it possible that a common mechanism (a Universal Vortex) is responsible for the condition’s existence?
   

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