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What Is an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?

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asked Mar 10, 2010 by anonymous
edited Mar 12, 2010 by administrator

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD is a disorder related to anxiety. A person suffering from this condition deals with an unwanted ideas or obsessions that they wanted to do in order for them to satisfy their so-called "obsessions".

The different obsessions lies from the range of having different thoughts like: keeping his/her part of body clean all the time, things regarding religion and losing control.

Compulsions are the behaviors that reduces the anxiety of the person with OCD. Most people who have this condition both have Obsessions and Compulsions.

Here are the different thoughts and behaviors of an OCD:

- senseless
- distressing
- repetitive
- and can sometimes be harmful
answered Mar 10, 2010 by anonymous
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