Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder
Obsessions
consist of repetitive unwanted or bothersome thoughts.
Compulsive and Ritualistic Behaviors are when the person feels that something
must be done over and over and/or in a certain way.
Research shows 50 to 60% of persons with Tourette's Syndrome
also have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Obsessions
Being concerned with symmetry,
exactness, cleanliness, order
Needing to know or remember things
Over focusing on minute details
Having to have "JUST RIGHT" feeling
Over focusing on one idea or action
Over focusing on moral issues (right/wrong, fairness)
Focusing on specific numbers
Being concerned with colors of special significance
Needing to experience sensations (skin cut or burned)
Having a preoccupation with knives, scissors, blood
Worrying about harming self or others
Worrying that something terrible might happen (fire, death)
Being concerned about dirt or germs
Thinking about hoarding or collecting
Thinking about food and eating
Thinking about forbidden behaviors
Engaging in mental coprolalia (sexual thoughts, images, impulses)
Having aggressive thoughts, images, impulses
Compulsions
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Hoarding and OCD
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