Lena Dunham's OCD Fantasies

Lena Dunham's OCD Fantasies

The much-acclaimed, ultra-liberal, tatooed feminist 27 Lena Dunham–actress, screenwriter, producer, director, creator, writer and star of the HBO series Girls, and newly-disclosed college rape-date victim won’t be getting married any time soon not because of her almost instant stardom or due to her alleged rape by an unidentified conservative student at Ohio’s Oberlin College some years ago but because gay marriage is not yet legal throughout America.

Or, so she says.

However, how the increasingly-toothy Dunham’s marital future relates to universal official sanction for men wedding other men and women wedding other women is unclear at except, perhaps, through her distorted, obsessive compulsive prism.

Diagnosed with OCD in childhood, at 27, Dunham still receives low maintenance doses of antidepressant drugs designed to reduce anxieties and whatever else bothers her mind, body, and spirit.

Without disparaging the effects of any disease–I have more than my share, thank you very much–according to the National Institute of Mental Health, OCD results only in temporary relief from patient anxieties and goes far beyond manically checking, touching, and counting things.  It extends to “frequent thoughts of violence and harming loved ones, persistently thinking about performing sexual acts the person dislikes, or having thoughts that are prohibited by religious beliefs. People with OCD may also be preoccupied with order and symmetry, have difficulty throwing things out (so they accumulate), or hoard unneeded items.”

Such a definition would account for Dunham’s never-before-reported date rape as well as for her delayed anger over the drunken Oberlin incident. . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=39399.)