Panic attacks can be extremely frightening. People with obsessive-compulsive disorder have either obsessions, or compulsions, or both. People with obsessions are bothered by thoughts or images that continue to repeat themselves and are almost impossible to ignore. These thoughts, which are annoying, distracting, and inappropriate, tend to cause the person to have moderate to severe anxiety and other emotional discomfort. People who suffer from OCD worry excessively and often attempt to avoid or to get rid of the bothersome thoughts by trying to replace them with more pleasant thoughts or actions.
Compulsions are behaviors.
These specific behaviors are in direct response to the person's troublesome, obsessive thinking. Therefore, people engage in the compulsive behaviors in order to reduce their obsessive thoughts. All Rights Reserved Siouxland Network.