Word: obsessive-compulsive disorder, OCD

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An anxiety disorder whose symptoms include obsessive, intrusive thoughts, often characterized by catastrophizing; and ritual acts (compulsions) that relieve anxiety related to the obsessions. People with OCD may wash their hands repeatedly, change clothes with extremely frequency, repeatedly check that they have not forgotten to perform an around-the-house task, or need to count to ten or fifty before doing something,


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