Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
OCD typically begins in adolescent or early adult life, and although it is uncommon, it is usually chronic and often debilitating. Obsessions are recurrent thoughts, beliefs, or ideas that dominate a person's thought content. Compulsions are acts (either physical or mental) performed repeatedly in a way that the person realizes is neither appropriate or useful (Morrison, 1995).
The general characteristics of OCD include:
A fear of contamination can lead to excessive handwashing; recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress (obsessions); repetitive behaviors (handwashing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession (Morrison, 1995).
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