Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Behavioral Definitions

• Recurrent and persistent ideas, thoughts, or impulses that are viewed as intrusive, senseless, and time-consuming, or that interfere with the client’s daily routine, job performance, or social relationships
• Failed attempts to ignore or control these thoughts or impulses or neutralize them with other thoughts and actions
• Recognition that obsessive thoughts are a product of his/her own mind
• Repetitive and intentional behaviors that are done in response to obsessive thoughts or according to eccentric rules
• Repetitive and excessive behavior that is done to neutralize or prevent discomfort or some dreaded situation; however, that behavior is not connected in any realistic way with what it is designed to neutralize or prevent
• Recognition of repetitive behaviors as excessive and unreasonable

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