OCD and television preferences

Although my old counselor diagnosed me as having OCD I did'nt belive her but I think I might be. But anyway I am addicted to House and COPS. I watch House on it's reg. night on Fox then old reruns at every night on USA and same with COPS I watch the regular episodes then watch the reruns 3 or 4 times a day on G4.

I don't know if any of you have heard this yet, but A&E is doing a documentary series starting this fall on OCD. It's going to be called "Obsession." I haven't decided whether I'm going to watch it. It's being produced by the same people who produce Intervention, which I like. Intervention has featured at least one person with OCD. They brought in Michael Jenike to participate in the intervention. The show was well done and everyone involved in the intervention was pretty compassionate.

I love Numb3rs & house....I've always pictured my true personality a hybrid between Charlie & House

I have a problem with the show Intervention. The people sign up to do a documentary on their problems, not to be ganged up on (and that's what an intervention feels like to most people), and while I have a problem with interventions, I think that when they're done, they should be private, not put on TV for entertainment. There are those who watch Intervention who care, but let's face it--many watch it because they want to see "freaks." I've heard people talk about those on the show and describe them in that kind of way.

I remember one episode where a woman was becoming seriously ill from her alcoholism, and 911 should have been called, and the camera person/people didn't do anything.

A recent episode really pissed me off. The old lady counselor spoke of a self-harmer (the woman beat herself), and said that she manipulates the situation and the people around her, and half of what she says is lies. She said something to the effect that all mentally ill people (or possibly she only meant self-harmers, but that wasn't the impression I got) were liars. I won't say I never lie, but I am a very honest person, which I became a long time ago when I was a Christian. That's one thing I felt was a good quality, and kept it.

I don't know how they'll run the OCD series, if they're making it, but people with mental illnesses shouldn't have cameras shoved in their faces or be manipulated into doing a different type of show than what they signed up for (their intentions).

UPDATE: The show will premiere on Memorial Day (May 25) at 10 p.m. Here is a link to A&E's program description:

http://www.aetv.com/news/?id=443346

I watched "Obsession" or "Obsessed" (can't remember) a little, and it actually triggered me some; at least certain episodes where people had terror of leaving their town, afraid an appliance would fall through the floor, as informative as it is as a show, I had to stop watching it.

When I like a show/find a show, my OCD kicks in and I not only have to watch every episode as they come on, if I've missed 3 or 4 seasons I HAVE to watch every episode back to back until I'm caught up.

I also do this with looking at pictures on a website for example. If I'm looking for a hairstyle, I have to look at evvvvery page until I've looked at them all. If there are 25 pages, I have to look at all 25 or I feel it's not "complete" or balanced or something.

All of the above is when my anxiety/everything else is aggravated.