Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) options a pattern of unreasonable thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to try to to repetitive behaviors (compulsions).

These obsessions and compulsions interfere with daily activities and cause important distress. You may attempt to ignore or stop your obsessions, but that only increases your distress and anxiety.

Ultimately, you are feeling driven to perform compulsive acts to undertake to ease your stress.

Despite efforts to ignore or get rid of pestering thoughts or urges, they keep coming back. This results in additional practice behavior — the positive feedback of OCD.

OCD typically centers around bound themes — as an example, a fear of getting contaminated by germs. To easer contamination fears, you may compulsively wash your hands