OCD is like Pong

Was Atari's 1972 electronic ping-pong game actually Allan Alcorn crying for help?

Having OCD is like playing a nonstop game of Pong.

Where your opponent is your cingulo-opercular network, the ball is your incessant thoughts or compulsions, and you’re the sad sack of shit living inside a 70’s era arcade game.

It’s a commonly-recommended technique to personify your OCD as a way to drive home the fact that you are separate from your diso…