Rainn Wilson and Howie Mandel set the record straight on OCD

And I like that you both said that everybody has odd thoughts.

I've used the example, many people have driven over a bridge and thought, I could totally turn the wheel of the car right now and shoot it off the bridge.

And if you don't have OCD, you might go, well, that was weird.

And if you do, you think, I can never take bridges again because I just used all the luck up about not going off the bridge.

So the next time will be the time I take off off the bridge.

And so bridges are done.

Right.

And then you're also ruminating on yourself and your value for having those thoughts.

Am I a bad person because I keep thinking about driving cars off bridges? And am I going to be able to even drive a car because I could think about driving it into a wall or I could drive it into a telephone pole? Maybe I need to not drive anymore.

And then that becomes loaded.

And do I have any value as a person of someone who just wants to crash cars all the time? Does that make me a bad person? And

because that thought is so strong and so real, you're also cognizant of the fact that your loved ones could be in that car.

So am I going to cause damage to a lot of other innocent people? So that's what your intellectual self kind of pulls you away from even wanting to get into a car, which is...

Right.

Or a school zone.

Oh, there could be children.

Yes.

Am

I homicidal? Are

you here

to trigger us?

I'm not trying to, but it could happen.

I have a compulsion to wash Howie's hands.

Right.

I don't think he'll let you, but I don't know.