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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Learning Center
Symptoms could include:
- Anxiety
- Obsessions
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Preoccupation
- Aphasia
- Fidgeting
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Irrational Thoughts
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Repetitive Routines
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Compulsive Cleaning
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Ritual Compulsion
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Fear of Infection
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Ritual Hand Washing
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Rigidity of Thinking
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Abnormal Compulsion
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Obsessional Thoughts of Germs
- Panic Attacks
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Worried
- Perfectionism
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Anxiety Attack
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Alienation
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Compulsive Hoarding
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Compulsive Checking
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Body Rocking
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Compulsive Counting
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Compulsive Touching
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Lack of Generosity
- Motor Tic
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Compulsive Arrangement of Objects
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Obsessions or compulsions that are not due to medical illness or drug use; An example of obsessive-compulsive disorder is excessive, repeated handwashing to ward off infection. The person usually recognizes that the behavior is excessive or unreas...
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The symptoms of OCD should not be confused with the ability to focus on detail or to check one's work that is sometimes labeled "compulsive" in everyday life. This type of attentiveness is an important factor in academic achievement and in doing w...
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Although there are marked similarities between cases, no two people experience this anxiety disorder in exactly the same way. In one common form of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), an exaggerated fear of contamination (the obsession) leads to ...
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Research suggests that the tendency to develop obsessive-compulsive disorder is inherited. There are several theories behind the cause of OCD. OCD may be related to a chemical imbalance within the brain that causes a communication problem between ...
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While no one knows for sure, research suggests that the tendency to develop obsessive-compulsive disorder is inherited. There are several theories behind the cause of OCD. Some experts believe that OCD is related to a chemical imbalance within the...
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Stress can come from any situation or thought that makes you feel frustrated, angry, or anxious. What is stressful to one person is not necessarily stressful to another. Anxiety is a feeling of apprehension or fear. The source of this uneasiness i...
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Anxiety is a bodily response to a perceived threat or danger. It is triggered by a combination of biochemical changes in the body, the patient's personal history and memory, and the social situation. It is important to distinguish between anxiety ...
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Systematic desensitization is a technique used to treat phobias and other extreme or erroneous fears based on principles of behavior modification .
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Anxiety is a multisystem response to a perceived threat or danger. It reflects a combination of biochemical changes in the body, the patient's personal history and memory, and the social situation. As far as we know, anxiety is a uniquely human ex...
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Anxiety is a multisystem response to a perceived threat or danger. It reflects a combination of biochemical changes in the body, the patient's personal history and memory , and the social situation at hand. Human anxiety involves an ability to use...
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Anxiety is a condition of persistent and uncontrollable nervousness, stress, and worry that is triggered by anticipation of future events, memories of past events, or ruminations over day-to-day events, both trivial and major, with disproportionat...
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A condition of persistent nervousness, stress, and worry that is triggered by anticipation of future events, memories of past events, or ruminations about the self Stimulated by real or imagined dangers, anxiety affects people of all ages and soci...
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An obsession is an unwelcome, uncontrollable, and persistent idea, thought, image, or emotion that a person cannot help thinking even though it creates significant distress or anxiety.
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Aphasia is condition characterized by either partial or total loss of the ability to communicate verbally or using written words. A person with aphasia may have difficulty speaking, reading, writing, recognizing the names of objects, or understand...
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Aphasia is a communication disorder that occurs after language has been developed, usually in adulthood. Not simply a speech disorder, aphasia can affect the ability to comprehend the speech of others, as well as the ability to read and write. In ...
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Aphasia is an impairment of spoken language understanding and expression associated with brain damage.
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A condition, caused by neurological damage or disease, in which a person's previous capacity to understand or express language is impaired. In aphasia, the ability to understand language and to translate thoughts into words has been impaired by in...
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Fidgeting is usually used to describe someone who is seen as not being able to sit still. Fidgety people move in their seats constantly, move their hands and feet and appear to be in perpetual motion.
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Panic attacks, the hallmark of panic disorder , are discrete episodes of intense anxiety. Panic attacks can also be experienced by people with specific phobia, social phobia , or by people who have used or consumed certain substances, such as coca...
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The tendency to set unrealistically high standards for performance of oneself and others, along with the inability to accept mistakes or imperfections in matters of personal appearance, care of the home, or work; may be accompanied by an obsession...
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Withdrawal or isolation from other people, rejection of the values of one's family or society, or estrangement from one's own feelings. Adolescents are the most frequent victims of feelings of alienation. The alienated adolescent has been a famili...
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Chronic motor tic disorder involves quick, uncontrollable movements or vocal outbursts (but not both.
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