More fun time from the parade of human misery and dysfunction that is A&E. A recent episode of “Obsessed” featured a man whose OCD causes him to wring his hands for a period in upwards of 10 hours anytime he spots an El Camino. As Best Week Ever notes, this can’t be the most socially crippling case ever, as exactly how many times do you really see an El Camino anymore?

One day, A&E’s gonna to create the most distressing Rube Goldberg mechanism ever, in which people with OCD trigger one another ticks until a simple task is executed. El Camino car causes man to wring hands, which causes another guy to wash his feet 28 times, which in turn makes a woman put on exactly 13 T-shirts, making another woman turn her stove on and off, the sound of which makes another OCD sufferer drop lick the stamp I need placed on my letter. Ta-da!

Video after the jump. [Blog post jumps cause me to bite my left index finger for 25 minutes]

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“Obsessed” is a new reality show on A&E where people with anxiety disorders confront their obsessive-compulsive tendencies.  It’s kind of like “Intervention,” except there’s no “Surprise!  Everyone you know wants you to stop this behavior” aspect to it.

In this clip, Scott, a man who wants to conquer his OCD so that he and his boyfriend can move in together and have a normal life, faces his paralyzing fear of… vaginal secretions?  To do this, Dr. Shana has supposedly changed her tampon and touched one of Scott’s towels, which leads to one of the coolest exchanges I’ve ever heard on reality TV:

Dr. Shana: What’s on your face?
Scott: Vaginal secretions, vaginal blood, endometriosis, fibroid juice…

HAWT!  You know, I never realized that fibroids had juice.  Hey look, it’s lunch time!  Who wants peaches?

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