"as good as it gets" and Obsessive compulsive disorder After recently watching the movie As Good as it Gets, starring Jack Nicholson (Melvin Udall) and Helen Hunt (Carol the Waitress), I was left with the impression of a very peculiar man who had some very strange habits. During the course of the movie, veiwers watched his condition go on a small rollercoaster ride, better to worse to better, and by the end of the movie …showed first 75 words of 1667 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1667 total…cure for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Melvin seems to have come along way through the course of the movie. At the end of the movie his symptoms are greatly reduced and as long as Carol, Verdell, and Simon continue to be positive entities in his life, his symptoms will continue to get better. So I guess it is time to answer Melvin's question: "What if this is as good as it gets?" No, Melvin, it gets better!!