Can ocd kill you

Answer 1

Probably not directly, although there are some expressions of OCD that are distinctly hard on the body. It is certainly possible to disrupt one's physical well-being, and since OCD often involves isolation one could die for lack of competent care, for sure.

The first documented deaths as a result of Obsessive Compulsive Death were recorded as occurring in March 1947, in America. Two well-educated brothers, Homer and Langley Collyer were reclusive men who avoided company and suffered from OCD. It manifested in the way they hoarded anything and everything. Because their hoarding made them targets for thieves, the men set up booby traps. Over time, Homer also gradually became blind, paralysed and totally dependent on his brother.

On 21 March 1947, police were tipped off that there might be a dead body in the house, but no-one could enter because the hoarded goods were ceiling-high and covered almost all the floor space. When a policeman finally broke in through a window he had to crawl for two hours through the maze and tunnels of hoarded goods until he came across the body of Homer, who had apparently died less than a day earlier. It was found that the dead body odour actually came from his brother whose decomposing body was found after several weeks of cleaning up, just a few metres from where his brother's body was found. It became apparent that Langley had been crawling through a tunnel of newspapers to bring food to his paralyzed brother when he was crushed by one of his own booby traps. Being blind, paralysed and unable to fend for himself, Homer, starved to death several days later.

Answer 2

if the person is obssesed with starting fires or something else very dangerous then they're probably very likely to die, but I don't think that the disorder itself kills a person.

Answer 3

Maybe if you self harm because of it, yes.