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- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- OCD is a condition characterised by obsessions and compulsions
- Behavioural Characteristic of OCD
- Compulsions
- Compulsions are repetitive
- Sufferers of OCD feel compelled to repeat certain behaviours, for example hand washing
- Compulsions reduce anxiety
- Compulsions are performed to manage the anxiety produced by the obsession, for example washing hands is a response of a fear of germs
- Compulsions are repetitive
- Compulsions
- Emotional Characteristic of OCD
- Anxiety & Distress
- Obsessive thoughts are unpleasant, and anxiety that goes with these can be overwhelming
- Guilt
- Anxiety & Distress
- Cognitive Characteristic of OCD
- Obsessive Thoughts
- Thoughts that reoccur over and over, these vary and can be unpleasant
- Cognitive Strategies to deal with the obsession
- A religious person tormented by guilt may respond by praying
- Insight to Excessive Anxiety
- People are aware that their thought are irrational but insight of this OCD sufferers experience thoughts about worse case scenarios that might result if their anxieties were justified
- Obsessive Thoughts
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