An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent, persistent obsessions or compulsions. Obsessions are the intrusive ideas, thoughts, or images that are experienced as senseless or repugnant. Compulsions are repetitive and seemingly purposeful behavior which the individual generally recognizes as senseless and from which the individual does not derive pleasure although it may provide a release from tension.
    

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Touch and go Joe : an adolescent's experiences of OCD / Joe Wells ; illustrated by Joe Wells ; foreword by Isobel Heyman.

OCD ain't a word : a zine about mental health / J. F. Gamber.

Morbid fears and compulsions : their psychology and psychoanalytic treatment / by H.W. Frink ; with an introduction by James J. Putnam.

The psychology of attention / by Th. Ribot.

The goldfish boy / Lisa Thompson.

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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Touch and go Joe : an adolescent's experiences of OCD / Joe Wells ; illustrated by Joe Wells ; foreword by Isobel Heyman.

OCD ain't a word : a zine about mental health / J. F. Gamber.

Morbid fears and compulsions : their psychology and psychoanalytic treatment / by H.W. Frink ; with an introduction by James J. Putnam.

The psychology of attention / by Th. Ribot.

The goldfish boy / Lisa Thompson.