Characteristics oCD

• 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)