Now, I realise you're joking but actually, you're probably sort of right. See, the thing that causes OCD is a bit of a brain mis-fire, but it's taking something that's quite normal in most humans, and just escalating it to a much higher degree of how strongly it's felt.
So, the feeling of needing to click on every message - perhaps to stop it standing out as blue - is actually kind of the OCD type obsessive compulsion... except a 'normal' person might feel the urge and, if unable to complete it, might just feel mildly irritated. They'd dwell on it for a few minutes maybe, or shake their head in irritation. But if they then shut the website window, they'd soon forget about it and move on.
It would become an issue for that person if they could not let it go however. There's a difference between feeling like you'd like to click on everything and feeling like you HAVE to, and not being able to feels like the end of the world.
But it's often these tiny illogical things that can sort of escalate into full blown compulsions for people whose brains are wired in this way.
Most people who don't have OCD will do little 'ocd-like things' - which is why I suppose it's so common for people to reference themselves as 'being OCD' (eg "I'm so OCD"). It's because most people really can relate to a mild version of that feeling.
Have you ever locked your car/house door and thought "oh wait, did I lock that?" and checked. Or completed any type of ritual - touched a stone for luck, or whatever. All of those things are that feeling, but for most people, it's just at a tiny level where it disrupts them that one time in that moment, but it doesn't disrupt their whole life.
So in short: Yes, it probably IS the same part of the brain to make it an OCD thing (though it doesn't mean everyone who does it has OCD).
I mean, I do, so I'm a terrible example saying not everyone who feels it has OCD, since I feel it and I DO have OCD... Hmm... (Reminds me when Xen was like "I bet people who are into tickling have a collection of feathers like spankos have implements" and I was about to say NOT SO but... yeah, I totally have a collection of feathers, so...)
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