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This is my father. He has always been cautious and deliberate in all he does. Now it's developed into full-blown anxiety about leaving his routine, traveling, and he has a specific thing around skin-picking, which he makes worse by obsessing about it and fiddling around with creams and steroids and antibiotics. He's constructed a rigid schedule that he found very hard to leave even when he traveled to see us and I had timed tickets for various museums - the time didn't coincide with one of his rare windows of "free time" (meaning periods when he isn't concocting some health dish in the kitchen, or putting cream on his skin), and it was really hard getting him out of the house for the timed entry.

But talk to him about politics or finances or something like that, and he's totally rational and thoughtful. It gives all of us a lot of cognitive dissonance, even though as soon as he gets back from his summer trip, I will try to get him an appointment at the neurologist. He needs meds for skin-picking and anxiety.

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