OCD

What is Obsession?

• Intrusive thoughts

• Repetitive behaviour

• Frequent worry

• Hallucination

What do you understand by compulsion?

• Happiness

• The urge to collect and hoard items

• Repeated , irrational behaviour

• Repetitive,irrational images / ideas

Examples of compulsion include

• Putting things in order regularly

• Often having the fear of infection

• Constant washing and Cleaning

• Frequent checking things

• Always feeling the need to steal

What does the obsession do?

• Causes relief

• Causes anxiety

• Causes confident

Which answer below is a myth

• Stress causes OCD

• Sufferers of OCD love cleaning

• OCD is a psychiatric disorder

• people who has OCD cannot control the symptoms

Which explanation is the most suitable for OCD

• The thoughts make the people feel satisfied

• Anxiety and stress due to faulty thinking causes a needed behaviour

• The repetitive behaviour give a temporary relief to the intrusive thoughts