Obsessions are repetitive and rigid behaviors or mental acts that people with OCD must perform to prevent or reduce the anxiety. While compulsions consist of thoughts, ideas, images and impulses that enter a person's mind and are experienced as intrusive, unwanted, anxiety provoking and distressing. Group of answer choicesTrue False

What is the difference between a compulsion and an obsession for someone who has obsessive-compulsive disorder? Provide an example of each. Explain why OCD is referred to as the “doubting disease.”View keyboard shortcutsEditViewInsertFormatToolsTable12ptParagraph

Obsessive compulsive disorder is defined by…Group of answer choicesThe presence of obsessions, compulsions, or bothObsessions which can be either pleasant/wanted OR unpleasant/unwantedThe compulsion to be organised and tidyThe presence or absence of unwanted tics or behaviours which cause significant distress

Which of the following is NOT a common obsession in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?Group of answer choicesContaminationSymmetryTaboo thoughtsAbandonment

An obsession is a __________.Group of answer choicesA. ritual or habitB. physical ailment without a medical basisC. false, unfounded beliefD. repetitive, unwelcome thought

What do obsessive-compulsive disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, and hoarding disorder have in common?Group of answer choicesrepetitive thoughts and urges, as well as an uncontrollable need to engage in repetitive behavior and mental actsobsession with the suffering of othersconviction that the patient herself is the cause of many people’s troublesgeneralized anxiety and specific phobias