OCD Characteristics

Cards (6)

  • What does OCD stand for?
    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • What is the behavioural component of OCD?
    Compulsive behaviours
  • What is compulsion?

    A repetitive behaviour that you feel the need to do to temporarily relieve the unpleasant feelings brought on by the obsessive thought
  • What are the 2 elements of compulsive behaviours?
    Repetitive and reduce anxiety temporarily
  • What is obsession?
    An unwanted and unpleasant thought, image or urge that repeatedly enters your mind causing feelings of anxiety, disgust and unease. The sufferer is unable to relax
  • Obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours