- Do you suffer from recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that are disturbing, intrusive, and inappropriate, and which result in marked anxiety or distress?
- Are these thoughts and worries more than just excessive worries about real life events or problems?
- Do you attempt to ignore or suppress the thoughts, impulses, or images, or neutralize them with another thought or action?
- Do you recognize that these events are coming from your own mind?
- Do these obsessions cause marked distress, and take up more than one hour of your day, or interfere with your normal routine, or relationships, or work/school?
If you answered yes to these five questions, then you have OCD (obsessional type)
- Do you have repetitive behaviors (such as germ avoidance, hand washing, ordering, checking, hoarding) or mental acts (counting, repeating words silently, praying compulsively) that you feel driven to perform?
- Are these in response to an obsession, or certain rules that you have adopted which you feel must be applied?
- Are these behaviors and mental acts designed to prevent or reduce distress or some dreaded event or situation, even though in reality there is no connection?
- Do these obsessions cause marked distress, and take up more than one hour of your day, or interfere with your normal routine, or relationships, or work/school?
If you answered yes to the above four questions, you have OCD (compulsive type).