Obsessive-compulsive disorder: practice question

The best answer is A, Compulsion. Obsessions are recurrent intrusive thoughts, urges or images; compulsions are repetitive acts or mental rituals performed to reduce distress or prevent feared events.

A delusion is a fixed false belief held with conviction.

The intrusive harm fear is the obsession.

Thought insertion is a psychotic experience of externally placed thoughts.

It tests Obsessive-compulsive disorder in Psychiatry. The correct option holds because: Correct. Repetitive checking is a behavioural ritual.

We tag it as an application question: it asks you to use a fact on a patient or a finding. The tag is our own editorial judgement, not an official difficulty rating, so read the reason for every option, not only the answer.

Learn each diagnosis by its core features and its first-line treatment. Then use the flashcards and the other Psychiatry questions on this site to test what stuck.

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