Associated medical conditions: Depression or other anxiety disorders may accompany OCD. And some people with OCD have eating disorders. In addition, they may avoid situations in which they might have to confront their obsessions. Or they may try unsuccessfully to use alcohol or drugs to calm themselves. If OCD grows severe enough, it can keep someone from holding a job or from carrying out normal responsibilities at home, but more often, it doesn’t develop to these extremes. 1
Depression or other anxiety disorders may accompany OCD, and some people with OCD also have eating disorders. In addition, people with OCD may avoid situations in which they might have to confront their obsessions, or they may try unsuccessfully to use alcohol or drugs to calm themselves. If OCD grows severe enough, it can keep someone from holding down a job or from carrying out normal responsibilities at home.2
OCD is sometimes accompanied by depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or other anxiety disorders. When a person also has other disorders, OCD is often more difficult to diagnose and treat. Symptoms of OCD can also coexist and may even be part of a spectrum of other brain disorders, such as Tourette's syndrome. Appropriate diagnosis and treatment of other disorders are important to successful treatment of OCD.
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This could easily explain why every say's i dont seem like i have OCD.
I've alway's tryed to avoid situation that might make my OCD tendancy obvious. My need to have things in order but not wanting to do it around people that dont understand at all. I also feel that I avoid doing thing incase I get angry and hurt the poeple around me even thoe i know i woalk away before I did that this is the fear that has driven me to avoid so much in life.
I posted this for other people that might feel the same way as me as well.