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Dr. Lancer invites you to use the NYOCD web site to educate, share ideas, and introduce you to a licensed psychologist who can help you make leaps & bounds over your obstacles created by OCD.

Obsessions are repetitive, intrusive thoughts or unwanted images. Unless a person has OCD, it is difficult to imagine that the faulty circuitry in an individual’s brain generates their obsessive thoughts.  Obsessions are different than thoughts an average person have. 
Most common obsessions are thoughts of contamination, pathological doubt, somatic, aggressive and/or sexual, religious scrupulosity and hoarding.

Compulsions are an individual attempt to try to neutralize, suppress, or deal with anxiety provoking obsessive thoughts. Compulsions consists of repetitive mental or physical acts ritualistic acts.

 

Compulsive behavior is the common response that individual performs in their attempt to neutralize and decrease the anxiety that the obsessive thinking bring.  Compulsions can come in the form of mental and/or physical.

OCD affects approximately ONE out of every FORTY individuals and is the fourth most common psychiatric disorder.  However, it has been documented that individuals live in silence with their OCD for many years.  This website will hopefully serve as a resource and/or a guide to recovering from OCD.

Obsessive-Compulsive disorder known as OCD is classified as an anxiety disorder. OCD is made up of two components, Obsessions and Compulsions.

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Some typical obsessions include:

  • Fear of dirt, germs, or contamination
  • A desire to perform violence on other people
  • A feeling of responsibility for other people's safety
  • Fear of hitting a pedestrian with a car
  • Excessive religious feelings
  • Intense sexual thoughts

 

Some typical compulsions include:

  • excessive washing (especially hand washing or bathing)
  • excessive housecleaning
  • touching, counting, arranging, or hoarding objects


Individuals may feel better while performing these actions. But that sense of satisfaction does not last long. Soon, the person will feel the need to do the action again.

 


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