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Jung Seok 's Life Of Life

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Jung-seok Han is a 38-year-old Korean male. Jung-seok is a librarian and has worked at a library for 9 years. He loves his job. Jung-seok has never been late at work or left work early. He is not sociable with all his colleagues. He does not have either a girlfriend or a wife. He lives at home alone. He does not have siblings. His mother and father died when he was young. His mother raised him as a single mother. His mother was a perfectionist, so she was excessively meticulous about everything. She always told Jung-seok to cut his nails close and not to get his clothes dirty when he was a child. Additionally, she made a plan every day in detail. Jung-seok’s original name was Jin-woo, but he changed his name to help hide his background. He …show more content…

Jung-seok was devastated by watching his mother die. He thinks that his mother died because of him. Due to the felling of guilt and fear, he made himself live cleanly and live with plans as his mother usually did. Since the incident, Jung-seok has shown the symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Jung-seok is aware that he had OCD, but he said that he is satisfied with his behavior and regards himself as a diligent person. However, he seeks help in managing his symptoms of OCD after meeting a woman who had OCD. When someone brushes against him, he thinks that it is dirty, so he sprays a disinfectant which he always brings in his bag and washes his hands. He uses gloves when he works. He goes to a laundry because of even little dirty things. When the symptom is severe, he sometimes faints. In addition, He does not get along well with coworkers because he is unable to see other coworkers’ dirty environment and he clean up dirty things. Jung-seok feels fairly nervous when something is not tidily arranged. He put messy things in perfect order while he chooses a beverage at the convenience store. Jung-seok always set the same time to do daily task every day. He makes a plan to the second. He decides what to wear on what day earlier. A person with obsessive-compulsive disorder is nervous about intrusive and obsessive thoughts as Jung-seok does. He or she repeatedly takes particular actions or thoughts to suppress the intrusive thoughts

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