Obsessional Thoughts And Compulsive Symptoms

Question 1

Obsessional ruminations

Answer 1

Repeating worrying themes of a fixed kind

E.g about the world ending

Question 2

Obsessional doubts

Answer 2

Repeated themes expressing uncertainty about previous actions

Question 3

Obsessional impulse’s

Answer 3

Repeated urges to carry out action. Usually actions that are aggressive dangerous or socially embarrassing

Question 4

Obsession

Answer 4

Pathological need to act on impulse if resisted produces anxiety

Question 5

Compulsions

Answer 5

Pathological need to act on an impulse If resisted produces anxiety

Question 6

Obsessional slowness

Answer 6

Usually result of the compulsive rituals or repeated doubts but can occasionally occur without them

Question 7

Obsessional phobias

Answer 7

Obsessional thoughts with a fearful content