OCD Exercises

Amy tries to help  Sheldon with his closure obsession where he has to make sure that everything is completed when he keeps trying to get his T.V show, Alphas,  re-aired after it gets cancelled.

The Exercises

In The Closure Alternative, Amy explains to Sheldon that he  has a  pathalogical  need  f or closure. She can help him retrain his neural pathways  to help him out.

Sheldon denies that he has a problem. Amy takes Sheldon through a series of exercises, where she won't let him finish things to help him with his compulsive  need for closure.

The exercises she takes him through and his reactions are:


 * She tells him that "We live in a world where closure is not always an op..."

         Sheldon waits as she picks at her nails and then shouts "tion".


 * <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">She starts by playing  tic-tac-toe on a whiteboard<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"> with him and erases it before he can win.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">         Sheldon says that he wants to pull his face off and tear it in two and tear it again and again.
 * <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">Amy is plays the American National Anthem <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"> and doesn't play or sing the last note.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">         Sheldon's nose twitches.


 * <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">Next Sheldon has dominoes  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">set up on the floor for toppling and <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:21px;"> Amy tells him to put them away.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">         and Sheldon mimics her


 * <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">Sheldon spins a child's jack-in-the-box and Amy pulls it away from him.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">         Sheldon gets more agitated when she takes it away.


 * <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">Amy has a birthday cake <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"> and tells him to blow out the candles <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"> and covers one of them.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">         He says "I wished you were dead."
 * <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">Amy is leaving as <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">Sheldon calls her "a wonderful neuroscientist <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">, an excellent girlfriend  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">and..."

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">         She asks "And??" He tells her that it doesn't matter. Sheldon closes the door and says, "..and a                    complete sucker."

Aftermaths

When Amy leaves Sheldon goes back to all his tasks of the night and finishes them. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:21px;">Sheldon rolls over in relief.
 * He re-draws the<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:21px;"> tic-tac-toe game exactly the way it was,
 * <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:21px;">He re-lights the birthday candles and blows them out.
 * <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:21px;">He re-spins the jack-in-the-box
 * <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:21px;">He re-plays and re-sings the full national anthem with his hand over his heart.
 * <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:21px;">He re-sets the dominoes exactly the way they were and knocks them all down