General Knowledge
A mental health condition characterized by uncontrollable, recurring thoughts and repetitive behaviors.
What is OCD?
Recurrent, persistent, unwanted thoughts, urges, or images that cause distress or anxiety.
What are obsessions?
The obsession with the possibility of causing harm or destruction.
What is Harm OCD?
When something unwanted or harmful gets into a place where it shouldn't be.
What is contamination?
The obsession with the possibility of causing harm or destruction.
What is Harm OCD?
Unwanted and persistent thoughts, urges or images.
What are obsessions of OCD?
This type of obsession involves having deeply distressing, unwanted thoughts that are often violent.
What are intrusive thoughts?
An intense fear of dirt, germs, or contaminants.
What is contamination OCD?
The process of removing the unwanted stuff (the contaminants) to make something safe and pure again.
What is cleaning?
For everyone that has OCD roughly 32% develop harm related obsessions.
What are the odds of developing Harm OCD?
A screening that asks about symptoms like unwanted intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions) to help identify potential OCD.
What is OCD diagnosis questionnaire?
A need to perfectly align or repeat a task or object a specific number of times until they feel "just right."
What is symmetry obsession?
A mental disorder characterized by persistent difficulty in parting with possessions.
What is Hoarding disorder?
The standard method for sterilizing heat-stable equipment.
What is autoclaving?
Mental rituals, avoidance behaviors, or seeking reassurance to alleviate related to potential harm.
What are the effects of harm OCD?
Obsessions, which are unwanted, distressing thoughts, urges, or images, and compulsions, which are repetitive behaviors performed to reduce anxiety from the obsessions
What are symptoms of OCD?
An excessive and ritualistic behavior driven by the need to neutralize or reduce the anxiety.
What is repetitive checking?
Also referred as just right or perfectionism OCD.
What is symmetry OCD?
The four basic steps for cleaning and sanitizing food-contact surfaces.
What is cleaning, rinsing, sanitizing and air drying?
A cognitive behavioral therapy called Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP).
What is a treatment to harm OCD?
Stressful life events, major changes (like a new job or move), and trauma, as well as more specific triggers like germs, certain objects, news stories, and disruptions in routine
What are OCD triggers?
In children, a rare, sudden onset of OCD symptoms and tics may be linked to a Group A streptococcal infection.
What is PANDAS
The OCD that involves checking and rechecking things.
What is checking OCD?
Two common types of chemical sanitizers used in food service.
What are chlorine and and quaternary ammonium compounds?
The fear associated with harm OCD can cause a person to believe they are genuinely a threat, when in fact, the intrusive thoughts are a symptom of the disorder.
What are misinterpretations of harm OCD?