Health AnxietyInterpersonal BehaviourOverarch ThemeObsessive Compulsive Disorder PatientExcessive reassurance seeking (ERS) is commonly reported in patients who have OCD or health anxiety. Despite its prevalence and associated risk of ongoing difficulties, little is known about the function of ERS. It has...
OCD. This raises the question of whether Illness Anxiety Disorder should be viewed as a form of OCD rather than a related disorder. The difference between Illness Anxiety Disorder and OCD, however, is that those with Illness Anxiety Disorders fearhavinga disease while people with OCD feargetting...
therapists and researchers have already found ways to treat health anxiety symptoms, more so because of its similarities to obsessive-compulsive disorder. In contrast, contamination OCD patients fear getting a disease in the future while the fears of health anxiety patients are focused on currently ha...
Although some organizations may consider obsessive-compulsive disorder to be an anxiety disorder, the DSM-5 generally does not. However, OCD often involves intense feelings of anxiety that accompany obsessions. Other physical symptoms might include compulsions or tics. Therapy, medication, and intentiona...
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) – intrusive, unwanted thoughts that lead to repetitive behaviours, which relieve the anxiety. What causes anxiety? Whereas stress comes and goes due to external factors, anxiety can persist for a while and the cause isn’t always clear. For some people, it...
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OCD is a form of psychological anxiety in which an individual experiences unwanted, irrational, and obsessive thoughts that often lead to compulsive behaviors. The drive to perform compulsions—which may include things like repetitive cleaning, checking, counting, organizing, etc.—in particular can ...
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