OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is an Anxiety disorder which can be very distressing for the sufferer. It is common for people to suffer with OCD from childhood and never to have received help for this condition. People tend to seek help for OCD when they feel that their lives have become unmanageable.
The symptoms of OCD are:
• Becoming troubled by intrusive thoughts which are anxiety provoking. These thoughts might be very disturbing.
• The tendency to develop repetitive behaviours which temporarily ease the anxiety caused by the intrusive thoughts.
• Daily rituals which can become extremely time consuming.
• The knowledge that OCD thoughts and behaviours are senseless but feel unable to prevent them.