OCD

Question 1

What type of disorder is OCD?

Answer 1

A serious anxiety-related condition

Question 2

What does OCD stand for?

Answer 2

Obesessive-compulsive disorder

Question 3

What does a person experience with OCD?

Answer 3

Frequent intrusive and unwelcome obsessional thoughts, often followed by repetitive compulsions, impulses and urges

Question 4

What is the OCD cycle?

Answer 4

Obsessions 
Anxiety
Compulsions
Relief
(Continues back to obsessions and so on)

Question 5

What are compulsions?

Answer 5

Repetitive physical behaviours and actions or mental thought rituals

Question 6

What do people with OCD often realise about there obsessions?

Answer 6

People with OCD often realise that their obsessional thoughts are irrational

Question 7

What are the behavioural characteristics of OCD?

Answer 7

Compulsions

Avoidance

Question 8

What are the emotional characteristics of OCD?

Answer 8

Anxiety and distress (unpleasant emotions)
Accompanying depression (low mood/lack of enjoyment in activities)
Guilt and disgust (in themselves or something external)

Question 9

What are the cognitive characteristics of OCD?

Answer 9

Obsessive thoughts (always unpleasant)
Cognitive strategises to deal with obsessions
Hyper-vigilant
Aware obsessions and compulsions are not rational