7. MONK
• Monk is a former homicide
detective and is now a consultant
for homicide cases for the San
Francisco Police Department.
• He suffers from extreme OCD and
has numerous phobias.
• He does go to therapy to help with
his OCD and phobias.
• So much so that his personal
assistant have to drive him around,
do his grocery shopping, and carry
wipes for him.
9. SIMILARITIES
• Like others who suffer from OCD Monk has to continually wash his hands
because of a the obsessive thought of dirt and germs.
• People who suffer from OCD are always cleaning, checking, repeating,
slowing down, and/or hoarding things.
10. SIMILARITIES
• Monk always has to clean and everything has to be symmetrical and that he
will only drink certain types of water.
• Monk will take hours to do one simple task. Such as when he makes a
sandwich everything has to be perfect or he cannot eat it and will throw
away numerous sandwiches before he will eat one
11. SIMILARITIES
• While this can make him extremely socially awkward to a point where he has
to write down key note to talk about in conversations this makes him a
brilliant detective and profiler.
• Monk does have a tendency to fixate on that one thing until it is fixed or
done right, just like a person with OCD does
12. SIMILARITIES
• Monk, just like many others who suffer from OCD, visits a psychiatrist to help
with the problem
13. DIFFERENCES
• People who suffer from OCD tend to have only one or two specific
symptoms, unlike Monk who has an array of OCD symptoms
14. MY TAKE
• The writers for the show did do their research, and since the shows executive
producer David Hoberman suffers from OCD the show does know how that
specific disorder works.
• While there is a big debate on weather or not the show has accurately
showcased OCD, I believe that they have done a fairly accurate job.
15. REFERENCES
• The Everything Psychology Book
• The section on the OCD disorder
• www.wikipedia.com
• after typing in “Monk”
• I used the information specific to him
