OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER

OCD

OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER: a disorder in which a person has recurrent and unwanted thoughts, a need to perform repetitive and rigid actions or both.

Diagnosis requires that: 

- Obsessions/compulsions are recurrent

- The person recognises that their obsessions/compulsions are excessive and unreasonable

- The persons life is effected, impaired or the person is distressed

There is a difference between the obsession and compulsions related to…