Whats the symptoms of Obsessive Complulsive Disorder?

Answer 1

One of the very hardest to hide and/or deal with is hoarding behavior. A person collects and saves abnormal amounts of, for example, magazines and newspapers (but can be nearly anything) and cannot throw anything away without great anxiety.

Answer 2

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is characterized by Compulsions (feeling the need to do an act) and Obsessions (unwanted continuing thoughts). Compulsions can be repetitive actions, the need to do something, such as check all the locks repeatedly before leaving the house, and similar actions.

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Answer 3

Obsessive compulsive disorder is when an individual feels as if they must do something over and over again. For example, someone might be afraid of "germs" and wash his/her hands constantly. Any behavior that is repeated to an unreasonable extent may be a sign of obsessive compulsive disorder.

Answer 4

Symptoms may include some, all or perhaps none of the following:

Repeated hand-washing.
Specific counting systems — e.g. counting in groups of four, arranging objects in groups of three, grouping objects in odd/even numbered groups, etc.
One serious symptom which stems from this is "counting" your steps, e.g. you must take twelve steps to the car in the morning.
Perfectly aligning objects at complete, absolute right angles, etc. This symptom is shared with OCPD and can be confused with this condition unless it is realized that in OCPD it is not stress-related.
Having to "cancel out" bad thoughts with good thoughts. Examples of bad thoughts are:
Imagining harming a child, and having to imagine a child playing happily to cancel it out.
Unwanted sexual thoughts. Two classic examples are fear of being homosexual or fear of being a pedophile. In both cases, sufferers will obsess over whether or not they are genuinely aroused by the thoughts.
A fear of contamination; some sufferers may fear the presence of human body secretions such as saliva, sweat, tears or mucus, or excretions such as urine or feces. Some OCD sufferers even fear that the soap they're using is contaminated. [1]
A need for both sides of the body to feel even. A person with OCD might walk down a sidewalk and step on a crack with the ball of their left foot, then feel the need to step on another crack with the ball of their right foot. Also, if one hand gets wet, the sufferer may feel very uncomfortable if the other is not.
There are many other possible symptoms, and one need not display those above to suffer from OCD. It is important to remember that one must be diagnosed by a doctor to officially suffer from OCD in medical terms; furthermore, possessing the symptoms above is not an absolute sign of OCD.

Answer 5

There is a lot of information about it right here in Yahoo Answers and in other internet forums where people have discussed their experiences with OCD. Check out these forum search results from DNoneOfTheAbove.com
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Answer 6

The symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorders are: depression, anxiety,irritability, feelings on intense fear,worry,difficult in concentrating .
Accopanied by sweating,dry mouth,hot flashes,chills,dizziness. palpitations,muscle tension,trembling or restlessness.
Some medical conditions and drugs can either cause anxiety or produce it's symptoms.
Example:Asthma,heart attack,and overactive thyroid.
OCD is recurrant,repetive thoughts (obsessions),behaviors.
OCD occurs in about 2 percent of the population.And the most common system is depression.

Answer 7

The main symptom of OCD is feeling the overwhelming need to do things over and over again, like checking that doors are locked 15 times before you go to bed, or "having" to wash your hands so many times.

Answer 8

Doing things over and over before they can leave the house,it is all about not feeling right if they don't have a certain shirt,etc,they have medicine to help people now!

Answer 9

Obsessive is thoughts while Complusive is actions. One may obsess over one thing and complusively do actions repeatedly.

Answer 10

Things that you normally wouldn't do that you have an URGE to do. An URGE that you can't seem to overcome. When you want to do something over and over again that you may not have done before, and you can't, and maybe don't want to, control what you are doing.