Across
- 3. Obsessions commonly interefere with the life of people with ocd intefering with working,studying or seeing people.
- 4. A mental health disorder commonly linked with ocd involving a persistent depressed mood and loss of interest in activities
- 5. A symptom of ocd it is where you overly-worry about things for example sexual worries, health worries and other excessive worries
- 7. Some experts believe that ocd can be learnt example devlopling a washing compulsion after contracting a disease
- 9. Unwanted thoughts impulses or mental images which cause anxiety
- 10. A state of increased awareness and over sensitization to surroundings
- 12. cognitive behaviour therapy is common treatment for ocd
- 13. Feeling a compulsion to pray a certain number of times a day to the extent where it inteferes with life.
- 14. Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor common medication for OCD
- 15. movements, persistently repeating movements like shaking,rocking or skin picking
Down
- 1. Ocd has been linked to having irregular levels of serotonin.
- 2. Obssessive reasurrance over obsessions to provide continuing the ocd cycle. For example a man suffering from ocd obsessions about pedophilia may reassure themselve they are not a pedophile.
- 6. common response to the guilt from ocd
- 8. A voluntary lack of contact with other people and society
- 11. compulsions in response to anxiety from obsessions to provide temporary relief. For example overly checking, overly cleaning and aviodance