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obsessive-compulsive

[uhb-ses-iv-kuhm-puhl-siv]

adjective

  1. noting or relating to a personality characterized by perfectionism, indecision, conscientiousness, concern with detail, rigidity, and inhibition.

  2. Psychiatry.Ìýnoting or relating to a disorder or neurosis characterized by persistent intrusion of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) or the performance of actions, as repeated hand-washing, that one is unable to stop (compulsions).

    obsessive-compulsive disorder.



noun

  1. a person having obsessive-compulsive traits.

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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of obsessive-compulsive1

First recorded in 1925–30; obsessive ( def. ) + compulsive ( def. )
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She weaned him off clozapine entirely in 2018 and Cauchi also stopped taking medication to treat his obsessive-compulsive disorder the year after, she said.

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Last year, he starred in the romantic drama “Turtles All the Way Down,†the film adaptation of John Green’s young adult novel that explores the complexities of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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The “Fast Car†singer says that in addition to anxiety, he has a “particularly wicked†version of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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They were also asked whether the participants' parents, siblings or children were ever diagnosed with major depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder or other mood or psychiatric disorders.

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In this case, that mainly includes the earnest David, a digital ad salesman and devoted family man with controlled obsessive-compulsive disorder and a low threshold for embarrassment, the latter of which Benji repeatedly tests.

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