Characteristics oCD

    Cards (5)

    • Obsessions - intrusive and persistent thoughts and impulses
    • Compulses - the behavioural aspects of OCD in the form of repetitive actions that help to reduce the anxiety caused by the obsession
    • Behavioural - compulses which help to reduce the anxiety caused by the obsessions, these actions are repetitive and so can affect daily life as they are time consuming
    • Cognitive - obsessions
    • Emotional - likely to suffer from extreme levels of anxiety, obsessive thoughts (which are often frightening and overwhelming)
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