Speech On Obsessive Compulsive Nervous Nelly

Baleigh Murrain
Information and Diversity Speech
15 March 2017
Gail McCrady

“Obsessive Compulsive Nervous Nelly”

Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about obsessive compulsive disorder.

Central Idea: Obsessive compulsive disorder is complex, it affects many individuals, and there are few treatments for it.

Introduction

Attention Getter: What do you do when you lay down in bed at night? You probably scroll through Twitter, Instagram, and spend about fifteen minutes clicking through those snapchat stories that are just way too long. In the meantime, you realize that you forgot to turn the light off. So, instead of getting up and turning it off, you text everyone in your house hoping and praying that someone will come turn it off

Throughout my research, it has come to mind that this disorder is in need of some attention.

Thesis Statement: What I discovered was that obsessive compulsive disorder is highly misunderstood.

Preview Statement: In these next few minutes I want to share with you what obsessive compulsive disorder is, how it affects lives of the individual and their family, and various treatments and therapies for the disorder.

(Transition: “So what exactly is obsessive compulsive disorder?”)

Compulsions are used to satisfy the obsessions that the person is feeling.
1. Sometimes, the repetition of things isn’t always negative. Repeating an act can mean it is part of a daily routine, or it is done in order to learn something.
2. To be considered “compulsive”, it must be an act that the individual does not want to partake in.
3. Some examples of these acts can include washing and cleaning, checking things, and mental compulsions.
D. Although the cause of obsessive compulsive disorder is yet to be discovered, research is being conducted to further understand it.
1. This disorder is considered to be a brain disorder because the front of the brain is not communicating with it’s deeper parts.
2. It has also been discovered that genes play a role in causing the disorder.
3. However, they are not fully responsible for causing it.

(Transition: “Now that you understand it, you are probably wondering how it affects people.”)

II. Health Boards say that this disorder often pushes the individual to lag in school, the work place, and family settings and in relationships.

A. On average, the United States spends about eight billion dollars on it every