What Are The Symptoms Of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

Physical Distress When Routines Aren't Followed

Individuals with OCD often develop very particular routines and rituals regarding their thoughts and compulsions. They can experience physical distress when routines aren't followed. Physical distress can involve physical feelings of anxiety like a racing heart, upset stomach, shaking hands, and rapid breathing. Anxiety has the potential to cause digestive issues as well. There are some other cases where obsessive-compulsive disorder is centered around false physical sensations. Some doctors report treating patients who experience the urge to urinate with unusual frequency. Their bodies send signals they need to urinate even if they don't need to empty their bladders, and until they go to the bathroom, their thoughts are obsessively centered around the need to urinate. Patients with these symptoms can benefit from learning how to acknowledge false signals from the body and work in therapy on how to stop responding to them.

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