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[quote=Anonymous]I work with a young woman who has been diagnosed with OCD. However, if she is medicated, it is not effective. She interrupts what I am doing constantly to ask that we clean or tidy the work space, redo drafts for visual rather than content issues, and generally nit pick. I've explained that I find it difficult to hold or reestablish my train of thought due to these interruptions. Our immediate supervisor was involved in the tidying the workspace issue. He confirmed that the space was not overly messy and, while it was nice to be more visually organized if we had an outside visitor, it was more important to him that we were working and not filing, unfiling, and refiling all day. In her zeal to organize, she has thrown out materials we needed and kept others that are worthless. She seems bewildered by the consequences of her actions and when I am frustrated with her, it increases her OCD. Complicating all of this is the fact that our supervisor dislikes intervening in these type of situations. I worry that he will be annoyed with me if I keep appealing to him to rein in my coworker's behavior. I am MUCH more productive when she is not here and have started hiding from her when she is here. [/quote]

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