How to torture a woman with OCD

So I normally love What Not to Wear. Yes, Stacy and Clinton largely give everyone the same advice (define your waist! elongate your silhouette!), but as catty as they can be, I usually get the sense that underneath it all they mean well. They want to help people feel good about the way they look, and I can get behind that.

What I can't get behind, though, is their behavior toward Ashley, "a 32-year-old marketing and sales manager in Los Angeles" on an episode that aired this afternoon. As they always do, they pulled all her clothes out of her apartment and brought them to their studio on racks. Ashley, who said she has OCD issues, started off doing okay, but eventually broke down and started freaking out about them touching her things. She also said that she felt violated by the idea of people going into her home and taking her clothes without permission, to which I thought, "shit, yeah...that makes a ton of sense. How come nobody else ever reacts this way? Or do they just not show it on television when they do?" Anyway, that aside...when she told them she felt very uncomfortable with them touching her clothes, rather than being sensitive and backing off a bit, they started taunting her. It took her starting to cry for them to stop gleefully throwing her clothes into their giant trash can. I get that they have people on the show sometimes who are delusional and resistent to change (and Ashley was also being both of these things), but this woman very clearly had other things going on. She asked them to stop filming twice, and was starting to babble in a panicked manner. It was seriously uncomfortable to watch.

By the end of the show, Ashley was bubbly and happy with her makeover, but I couldn't get past the fact that they had basically bullied this woman into being okay with a violation of her privacy. It makes me wonder how many of the people who are "nominated" for these shows by their friends and family members show a happy face on air, but really want to slug them.