Friday, June 27, 2008

Boy blames himself for 9/11

An 11-year-old boy suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) thought 9/11 was his mistake.
His condition meant he was forced "to step correctly on a particular white mark on the road" every day.
On the day two aircraft slammed into the World Trade Centre, he had forgotten to do this and believed that the attack was his personal fault.
In a report published in the journal Neurocase experts said the boy, who suffers from OCD and Tourette's syndrome, was wracked with guilt after the attack.
The report said: "The case highlights the need to support young people in this world of terrorism and the mass media immediate coverage of events."

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