In "Binky Brown" Green blames the Catholic Church for his psychological troubles; years later, he was diagnosed with OCD, and came to see these episodes in that light rather than as the fault of the Church. He nevertheless continued to blame the Church for contributing to his anxieties and maintained that religion has a magnifying influence on the condition. He said the abandoning of both religion and recreational drugs made it easier to cope with his condition. In 1990 a Catholic priest raised concerns that "Binky Brown" may be harmful to minors; Green countered that he believed it was the Church that was harming minors. Green has likened his OCD to a "split vision" which made him "both the slave to the compulsion and the detached observer".