- Contamination—body fluids, germs/disease, environmental contaminants, chemicals, dirt
- Fear of being responsible for something terrible happening because of not being careful enough—dropping something on the ground that someone might slip on and hurt themselves
- Religious obsessions (also called scrupulosity)—concern with offending God or blasphemy
- Perfectionism—concern about evenness or exactness
- Hoarding—unable to decide whether to keep or to discard things
- Losing control— fear of acting on an impulse to harm others
- Unwanted sexual thoughts—acting on forbidden or perverse sexual thoughts or images
- Concern with getting a physical illness or disease
- Superstitious ideas about lucky/unlucky numbers, certain colors
Common Obsessions in OCD
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