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Subject: psychology
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: lazystretch818-ga
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Posted: 08 May 2004 18:51 PDT
Expires: 07 Jun 2004 18:51 PDT
Question ID: 343361
someone who suffers from repetitive, intrusive, thoughts and/or
uncontrollable urges to perform certain repetative behaviors would
most likely be diagnosed with?
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Subject: Re: psychology
Answered By: efn-ga on 08 May 2004 19:45 PDT
 
Hi lazystretch818-ga,

That sounds like obsessive-compulsive disorder, also known as OCD. 
The thoughts are the obsessions and the urges are the compulsions.

For more information, see, for example:

http://www.aafp.org/afp/980401ap/eddy.html

http://www.psychologyinfo.com/problems/ocd.html

http://www.emedicine.com/med/byname/obsessive-compulsive-disorder.htm

http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/mcb/165_001/papers/manuscripts/_22.html

--efn
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