clinical characteristics OCD

what is OCD

OCD, is characterised by either obsessions and or compulsions, most people have both

behavioural

Compulsions are repetitive: typically sufferers of OCD, a common example is handwashing. Other common compulsive repetitions include counting, praying and tidying/ordering groups of object such as CD collections.Compulsion reduces anxiety around 10% only have compulsion and not anxiety just a general irrational fear. Compulsion is mainly there to see a calm in the storm. Other way to manage is avoiding what you are scared of at all costs.

avoidance of things that trigger compulsions

social impairment as don’t want to trigger compulsion

 

 

emotional

anxiety and depression

cognitive

obsessive irrational reoccurring thoughts tend to be catastrophic

hypervigilance a permeant state where the suffer is looking for the source of there obsessive thoughts

selective attention there so obsessed and focused on objects connected with there obsession they cant concentrate