symptoms of OCD

• 1?

  • obsessions cannot be ignored or suppressed. sufferer may try to combat obsession by performing a compulsive behaviour that isn't realistically connected to the obsession
• 2?

  • obsessions/compulsions are time-consuming and cause clinically significant distress or impairment of daily life.
• 3?

  • symptoms cannot be explained by substance use or another medical condition/ other mental disorders like anxiety
• 4?

  clinician determines if an individual has fair insight to disorder and: recognises beliefs are likely not true, believe they're probably true, convinced they're completely true
• 5?

  • should also find out if individual has current/past history of tic disorders which can affect the severity