OBSSESIVE-COMPULSIVE
DISORDER (OCD)
Symptoms:
-Checking and rechecking actions (such as turning out the lights and locking the door)
-Excessive counting
-Excessive fear of germs
-The compulsion to repeatedly wash the hands to ward off infection
Causes:
-Head injury
-Infections
-Abnormal function in certain areas of the brain
-Genetic factors
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations, obsessions, or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something, compulsions.