Florida Anxiety Clinic: Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Anxiety Disorders: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Self-Test.

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OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE D/O SELF-TEST

To see if you meet the diagnostic criteria for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, please complete the following self-test by clicking the "yes" or "no" boxes next to each question,

PART A: Are you troubled by:

Recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that are intrusive, inappropriate, and cause severe anxiety?

Yes No

Thoughts, impulses, or images that are not related to real-life problems ?

Yes No

Trying to ignore or suppress thoughts, impulses, or images with some action or other thought?

Yes No

Knowing that your thoughts impulses, or images are a product of your own mind, not from outside of yourself?

Yes No

PART B: Are you troubled by:

Repetitive behaviors (such as hand washing, ordering, or checking) or mental acts (such as praying, counting, or repeating words silently) that you feel driven to perform in response to an obsession or rigid rules?

Yes No

Knowing that behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing (or reducing) distress or a dreaded situation, but are excessive and not connected realistically to what they are designed to prevent?

Yes No

PART C: The obsessions or compulsions:

Cause severe distress?	Yes No
Are time consuming?	Yes No

Significantly interfere with your normal routine, functioning at work or school, or usual social activities or relationships?

Yes No

PART D: Are the problems:

Unrelated to another disorder, such as an Eating Disorder, Trichotillomania, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, or Major Depression?	Yes No
Unrelated to a medical condition, effects of a medication, or substance.	Yes No

SCORING: You may have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder if:

Part A: You answered "Yes" to all items, and / or

Part B: You answered "Yes" to all items, and

Part C: You answered "Yes" to all items, and

Part D: You answered "Yes" to all items.

This test is meant to be informative and is not designed to provide a formal diagnosis.

To determine if you have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, please contact one of our psychologists at the Florida Anxiety Clinic.

These criteria were extracted from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association, 1994.

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