Given how hand washing can become an OCD, and the shock that his dawning realization must have been, I don't doubt that he might have become a little crazy. Th

Given how hand washing can become an OCD, and the shock that his dawning realization must have been, I don't doubt that he might have become a little crazy. The renown out of whack methods of the insane asylum are a different matter. What's the equivalent of washing hands when picking someones brain? Dropping presumptions? First I thought you meant "washing hands" figuratively, as I didn't predict the context.