Obsessive compulsive disorder is defined as a illness where a person has unwanted thoughts which causes a person to repeat certain behaviors over and over again. The patterns of behavior become problematic behavior that affects daily living.
Some of the symptoms of OCD is a tendency to experience anxiety over an event in your life. For example a person feels anxious about leaving the stove on. The person fears that if they do not check the stove three times and check the knobs on the stove in a certain sequence a fire will occur. The sense of anxiety is so severe that if the person is outside the home doing an errand they will return to check the stove even if it means not doing the errand.
Some common obsessions are: fear of germs, concern with order, everything must be in a certain way or place, worry that a task was done poorly or incorrectly and they know it was done correctly, fear of their thoughts being wrong or sinful, fear of harming someone.
Some treatments used to treat OCD are exposure and response therapy and Cognitve therapy.
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