OCD-info.org: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

OBSESSIONS

a haunting preoccupation with a fixed idea or an unwanted feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety.

COMPULSIONS
an irresistible impulse to act, regardless of the rationality of the motivation

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER

a psychoneurotic disorder in which the patient is beset with obsessions or compulsions or both and suffers extreme anxiety or depression through failure to think the obsessive thoughts or perform the compelling acts
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You may be obsessed with germs or dirt, so you wash your hands over and over. You may be filled with doubt and feel the need to check things repeatedly. You may have frequent thoughts of violence, and fear that you will harm people close to you. You may spend long periods touching things or counting; you may be pre-occupied by order or symmetry; you may have persistent thoughts of performing sexual acts that are repugnant to you; or you may be troubled by thoughts that are against your religious beliefs...
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