Features and Symptoms of OCD

Occurrence of unwanted and intrusive obsessive thoughts usually accompanied by compulsive behaviours used to neutralise obsessive thoughts

DSM-V Criteria

• Obsessions defined by: 
• > recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges and images that are experienced, during disturbance, as intrusive and causing anxiety and distress
  
• > person attempts to suppress and ignore thoughts, impulses and images or neutralise them…