OCD frequently revolves around particular themes, such as an obsessive fear of contracting germs. You may wash your hands excessively until they are painful and scarred in an effort to satisfy your anxieties about infection.

OCD warning indicators include resenting change, devoting excessive time to mundane chores, refusing to touch objects with bare hands, and having outbursts when unable to do tasks in a particular way. Symptoms of obsession include exaggerated worries, doubts, and prohibited ideas.

OCD is characterized by a pattern of unpleasant thoughts and anxieties (obsessions) that cause you to engage in repetitive actions (compulsions). These compulsive thoughts and behaviors disrupt daily life and cause severe distress.

You might make an effort to suppress or dismiss your obsessions, but doing so simply makes you feel more upset and anxious. In the end, you feel pressured to engage in compulsive behaviors in an effort to reduce your stress.

The most common symptoms of OCD are fear of dirt or germs, difficulty in accepting uncertainty and change, requiring symmetry and order in everything, unwanted ideas, such as those that are violent or discuss sexual or religious matters, and in extreme cases, individuals get violent about losing control and may hurt oneself or others.

Obsessions, compulsions or both may be signs of OCD. A stressful fixation is an uncontrollable idea or fear. A ritual or behavior that someone repeatedly does is known as a compulsion. Compulsions might provide some temporary alleviation, but only briefly. Be mindful of the symptoms.

This OCD quiz helps understand whether an individual has symptoms of OCD. If you have aversion to dirt or contamination, trouble accepting change, the need to incorporate symmetry in every little thing and organize every little detail, trouble with the mere thought of losing control and injuring oneself or others that are aggressive or horrifying, unwanted ideas, such as ones that are aggressive or touch on sexual or religious issues.