I suffering from ocd last 15 years. My age 32/m marrried. Working in bloodbank. Excessive hand wash, phobia blood product, always bad images in mind, I hate dirty people never want touch, I normal at work but when I came home (last 2 year) take bath half an hour and dettol handwash again and again. App. Half hour.

Dr. B.S. AroraPsychiatrist24yrs exp

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Since you know that you are suffering from ocd obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd. What medicine you are received. Let know. I am sending you diagnostic criteria for obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd). Read it and then respond with more details. So that I can help you out. Either obsessions or compulsions: obsessions are defined by (1), (2), (3), and (4): 1. Recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced at some time during the disturbance as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress 2. The thoughts, impulses, or images are not simply excessive worries about real-life problems 3. The person attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, impulses, or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action 4. The person recognizes that the obsessional thoughts, impulses, or images are a product of his or her own mind (not imposed from without as in thought insertion) compulsions are defined by (1) and (2) 1. Repetitive behaviors (e. G, hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e. G, praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, or according to rules that must be applied rigidly 2. The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these behaviors or mental acts either are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent or are clearly excessive b. At some point during the course of the disorder, the person has recognized that the obsessions or compulsions are excessive or unreasonable. Note: this does not apply to children. C. The obsessions or compulsions cause marked distress, are time consuming (take more than 1 hour a day), or significantly interfere with the person's normal routine, occupational (or academic) functioning, or usual social activities or relationships. 

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