As football fans don their unwashed jerseys, sit in their favorite couch seats or line up their remote controls like Robert De Niro's character in "Silver Linings Playbook," many might wonder whether their Super Bowl superstitions might be crossing over into something more serious -- such as obsessive compulsive disorder. People with obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, often associate certain colors and numbers with bad luck, just like people who don't have OCD, but there are a few critical differences: When OCD patients see these colors or numbers -- or have other intrusive thoughts -- they feel they must perform rituals to avoid catastrophic outcomes, said Jeff Szymansky, the executive...
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