Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Definition
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a type of anxiety disorder. A person with an anxiety disorder worries excessively about the circumstances of his or her ...
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a type of anxiety disorder. People with anxiety disorders cannot stop worrying. In OCD, people have intense, repetitive thoughts, i...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a neurological anxiety disorder characterized by powerful, unwanted obsessions (intrusive, recurrent thoughts which a person cannot...
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Obssessive-Compulsive Disorder
Mental illness characterized by the recurrence of intrusive, anxiety-producing thoughts (obsessions) accompanied by repeated attempts to suppress these thoughts through ...
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"Obsession is a commitment; you have to believe in it, because it soon takes you over." A chilling statement made by Pilar Vilades in a New York Times Magazine article regarding how time consuming an...
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In the book "The boy who couldn't stop washing" by Judith L. Rapoport, M.D., the narrator, Rapoport, deals with hundreds of mentally disturbed children and adults who suffer of Obsessive-Compulsive...
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Blood was smeared on Jon's math test when he turned it in. The teacher called him up to her desk to see what the problem was. Jon slowly raised his hands into the sight of the teacher. They were red a...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, known as OCD, is a type of anxiety disorder, which has been characterized by repetition of impulses, thoughts, or images that are intense or unusual. These thoughts are...
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OCD: An Anxiety Disorder
Thesis: OCD is an anxiety disorder. Having OCD is not a person's fault or the result of having an unstable personality, but many people question whether or not they have it. ...
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