Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

Obsessions are recurring and persistent thoughts, preoccupation, urges or images that are experienced as intrusive and unwanted.

Compulsions are repetitive behaviors or mental acts that an individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rules that must be applied. 

The thoughts are obsessions while the actions are compulsions. Most importantly, thinking and actions interrupt daily functioning.

Myths about OCD

• OCD isn’t treatable
• OCD is a women’s disease
• OCD is all about cleanliness

Types of OCD

• Harm
• Relationship
• Contamination
• Perfectionism
• False memory/real events
• Religious OCD
• Responsibility OCD

Other Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders include:

• Body dysmorphic disorder
• Hoarding disorder
• Hair-pulling disorder
• Skin picking disorder