The presence of obsessions or compulsions, or both, are what distinguishes obsessive-compulsive disorder from other conditions. The obsessions or compulsions cause marked distress, are time-consuming, and interfere with a person's normal functioning.
(1989) concluded that everyone excretes stinky compounds in their urine after eating asparagus, and the only variation is in ability to smell them. Other papers using chemical tests and carefully controlled smelling tests show that there is variation in excretion of sulfur compounds in urine after eating asparagus.
Though not a body odor issue per se, asparagus is notorious for making urine smell funnyâsomewhat like rotten or boiled cabbage. It has long been debated whether only some people are capable of producing the odor or whether all people make it but only some people can smell it.