Understanding OCD: Criteria, Obsessions, and Compulsions

The experience of obsessions, compulsions or both; • These experiences cause marked distress, are time consuming (>1 hr/day) or significantly interfere with functioning and relationships. • Specify if: – Good/fair insight – Poor insight – Absent insight/delusional beliefs

• Persistent ideas, thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced as intrusive and inappropriate and cause marked anxiety or distress; • Individual may recognize these experiences as products of their own mind.

• Fears of contamination • Repeated doubts (safety, scruples) • Need to have things in a particular order • Sexual, horrific or blasphemous imagery • Aggressive or inappropriate impulses • Nonsensical thoughts or images

<p>• Repetitive behaviour(handwashing, checking) or mental acts (praying, counting, repeating words silently) the goal of which is to prevent or reduce anxiety; • Can include rigid/stereotyped acts according to elaborate rules without any real explanation of them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>• Washing and cleaning • Checking • Repeating • Ordering • Mental rituals (eg.Counting, prayers) • Reassurance seeking • Compulsive shopping</p> Signup and view all the answers