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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder OCD
Many healthy people can identify with having some of the symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), such as checking the stove several times before leaving the house.
But OCD is diagnosed only when these activities take at least an hour a day, are very distressing, and interfere with daily life.
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is defined by the National Institute of Mental Health as having persistent, unwelcome thoughts or images and the urgent need to perform certain rituals.
Even though people with OCD may acknowledge that these thoughts and rituals are unreasonable, they cannot control them.
The disturbing thoughts or images are called obsessions, and the rituals performed to try to prevent or get rid of them are called compulsions.
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