OCD Checking Re-reading text Anxiety
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder presents itself in many guises, and certainly goes far beyond the common misconception that OCD is merely a little hand washing or checking light switches. Although those are valid OCD compulsions, such perceptions fail to acknowledge the distressing thoughts that occur prior to such behaviours and also fails to highlight the utter devastation that constant compulsions (no matter what they are) can cause.
Although there are infinite forms of OCD, it has been traditionally considered that a person’s OCD will fall into one of these five main categories, with themes often overlapping between categories too.
Checking
Contamination / Mental Contamination
Symmetry and ordering
Ruminations / Intrusive Thoughts
Hoarding
Re-reading text, usually in a book but also can be in a letter or on an email over and over again is a common checking problem. They will keep reading until they ‘feel’ confident they have taken the text in correctly. The primary obsessional fear is not quite taking in the information or missing something important from the text.
Although there are infinite forms of OCD, it has been traditionally considered that a person’s OCD will fall into one of these five main categories, with themes often overlapping between categories too.
Checking
Contamination / Mental Contamination
Symmetry and ordering
Ruminations / Intrusive Thoughts
Hoarding
Re-reading text, usually in a book but also can be in a letter or on an email over and over again is a common checking problem. They will keep reading until they ‘feel’ confident they have taken the text in correctly. The primary obsessional fear is not quite taking in the information or missing something important from the text.