OCD Information

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a prevalent and disabling neuropsychiatric disorder, and leads to clinically significant anxiety, functional impairment and distress in a number of life-domains work/ school, relationships and family life).  This chronic and long-lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, recurring thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions) that he or she feels the urge to repeat over and over.

What is OCD?