Little Gidding: OCD and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)

How Are PTSD and OCD Connected?

In addition to PTSD, people who have experienced a traumatic life event may also be more likely to develop symptoms of OCD. In fact, it has been shown that the severity of a person's OCD symptoms is connected to the number of traumatic events they have experienced in their lifetime.

http://ptsd.about.com/od/relatedconditions/a/OCD_PTSD.htm

Why "Little Gidding"

T.S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot, September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) wrote "Four Quartets", which consists of "Burnt Norton", "East Coker", "The Dry Salvages", and "Little Gidding". The titles refer to places that were important to Mr. Eliot. "Little Gidding" refers to an Anglican community's church that he visited in 1936 in Huntingdonshire called St. John's, which is also the name of the church where I attended Nursery School and Vacation Bible School. That was a sacred, golden time and place, and when I think of it I am there again, completely and unequivocally. All of that aside, I have never been able to read through the "Four Quartets" without stopping to ease the intense quickening in my bones; do not ask me to recite it. T.S. Eliot knew about the Golden in this world, and perhaps the next, and he could spin the words like so much straw into gold... My cheeks flame and my spirit burns when I read "Little Gidding"; if you know then you already know, and if you don't I am not sure that I can explain. You can visit "Four Quartets" here http://www.davidgorman.com/4Quartets/index.htm