OCD Information Page
Obessive Compulsive Disorder, commonly known as OCD, is an anxiety disorder in which people are consumed by repetive, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) or actions (compulsive) that they feel unable to stop or control. This disorder can take many diffrent forms, but for most people the obsessions and/or compulsions are acompanied by feelings of anxiety or a strong dread that something terrible is going to happen. OCD is not always easily recognize. A number of issues can complicate the diagnostic process. For some, the symptoms of OCD may be "masked" or coverd up by the symptoms of another disorder.
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Typical Obsessions and Compulsions
- Fear of contamination by dirt, germs, toxins, or poisons
- Fear the one will be responsable for something terrible happening to oneself or a loved one
- Fear of having a serious illness
- Need for symmetry, order, or exactness
- Aggressive or sexual thoghts that conflect with one's morals or values
- Blasphemous (outragious) thoughts that go against one's religious beliefs
- Doubt, or an excessive need for reasurance or confression
- Inability to discard uneless or worn-out possessions
- Washing
- Cleaning
- Constant checking
- Mental counting
- Touching, ordering and arranging
- Asking for reasurance or confessing
- Hoarding
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