Oxidative Stress and OCD. Part 1

Own thoughts.

It’s quite clear that OCD has high oxidative stress somewhere in the root cause - there are plenty of papers and studies that show that.

What is not clear to me is why, so many people in high oxidative stress state possibly showing other psychiatric symptoms do not have OCD.

I suspect there is some kind of cellular damage happening in some people who develop OCD, which can be reduced to some degree by using antioxidants, but some piece is missing still.

Maybe some kind of deficiency that prevent efficient repair of the cellular damage or recovery of bioenergetics (energy production).

I don’t like to generalize to “it’s genetic” because it doesn’t explain the details, and even unfavourable genetics can be compensated to some level if you know what is not working well.