Experiencing thoughts, images, or urges that are intrusive and cause distress. As a result, you engage in ritualized or repetitive behaviours and/or engage in avoidance strategies to decrease anxiety or fear. You could be suffering from OCD.
Dr. Morin has extensive experience working with children with Anxiety (general anxiety disorder), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and PANDAS/PANS in her role as a Registered Psychologist as well as a mother to her young girl.
Contamination, Hypersensitivity OCD, Emotional Contamination, Relationship OCD, Checking, Somatic OCD, Perfectionism OCD, Pedophilia OCD, Symmetry/Ordering, Scrupulosity-morality/religious, “Just right”, Harm OCD, Prenatal OCD, Homosexuality OCD, Existential OCD.
“A condition marked by repeated and lengthy (at least one hour per day) immersion in obsessions, compulsions, or both” (Lilienfeld #581).
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) defined by the International OCD Foundation, is a mental health disorder that affects people of all ages and walks of life, and occurs when a person gets caught in a cycle of obsessions and compulsions.
Obsessions are unwanted, intrusive thoughts, images, or urges that trigger intensely distressing feelings. Compulsions are behaviors an individual engages in to attempt to get rid of the obsessions and/or decrease distress.
OCD causes extreme impairments on the individuals functioning. While the OCD community has begun to identify different sub types of OCD, anything can be OCD if it follows the OCD cycle of obsession-increased anxiety- compulsion (to decrease anxiety)…then repeat the cycle.
Did you know we have Intensive OCD Exposure Groups at Level-Up?
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