characteristics

• what is OCD?


  a serious anxiety related condition where a person experiences frequent intrusive and unwelcome obsessive thoughts often followed by repetative compulsions
• if order to be diagnosed with OCD you must experience one of these symptoms: presence of compulsion that are time consuming, disturbance not explained by symptoms of another mental disorder
• what are the three characteristics of OCD?

  behavioural, cognitive, emotional
• with the behavioural aspects the compulsions are repetative
• with the behavioural side of OCD it means that it can reduce anxiety once compulsions are done
• when you have OCD you may avoid situations that can cause anxiety and this is an example for behavioural characteristics
• when you have OCD you may feel disgust and guilt over small things and this is an emotional effect of OCD
• when you have anxiety you may feel anxiety and stress because the obesessive thought are frightening which is an emotional effect of OCD
• when you have OCD you may experience depression because you may have a low mood this is an emotional effect of OCD
• when you have OCD you have obessive thoughts which is a cognitive effect of OCD
• when you have OCD you will develop cognitive coping strategies
• when you have OCD you become deluded about your anxiety which is when you're aware your thoughts are irrational which is a cognitive effect