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📣 ent101

Is OCD common among programmers?


Is OCD common among programmers?


  👤 warrenm Accepted Answer ✓
Is OCD officially diagnosed commonly among programmers?

Highly improbable

Are aspects of OCD often correlated with the types of personalities that happen to make "good" programmers (obsessing over seemingly-unimportant details, getting caught-up in irrelevant administrivia like coding standards (and why this one is better than that one), constant perfectionism, etc)?

No doubt

But just because some traits happen to appear doesn't mean you should be diagnosed with something

Kinda like the WebMD trope... [enters list of symptoms] ... WebMD: "You may have a cold... or CANCER!!"