The list is a lot longer than you might realize.
, but it gets wrapped up in what experts call obsessions.
“With OCD, those are the compulsions,” says Dr. Yip. “The compulsions might be washing, checking, seeking reassurance, repeating, counting, and so on.” As she explains, these compulsions serve to relieve the person of their anxiety or distress. However, the relief they feel is only temporary and usually only lasts until the next intrusive obsession returns. Thus a compulsion becomes a ritual when it has to be done a certain way or in a certain order.
Despite the similar manner in which all OCD themes function, it can still be helpful to understand what the different subtypes might look like. According to thefear of contamination To understand this obsession, it’s important to recognize that this fear is about losing your sense of identity and doing something on impulse that changes you from “good” to “bad,” or causes you to lose the comforts of your life. For example, if you lose control and yell obscenities at your boss, you might get fired and lose your paycheck.
It’s important to remember that if you have unwanted-sexual-thoughts OCD, you don’t actually want to do these things. Like people with loss-of-control OCD, you might spend a lot of time seeking reassurance that you are not a sexually violent person.Pure obsessional OCD, also known as pure O, refers to an OCD subtype that is defined by obsessions andcompulsions.
, OCD affects roughly 1 in 200 children and adolescents. But despite OCD’s being one of the most common anxiety disorders, it’s still surprisingly misdiagnosed—especially in children.
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