OCD

OCD is characterized by recurrent & persistent unwanted thoughts, urges and/or images that cause extreme anxiety or distress. Most often, when people experience such thoughts they go to great measures to ignore or suppress them or to neutralize them in some way. Such behaviors are called compulsions/rituals because they serve the purpose of alleviating or preventing the associated anxiety or distress.
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)

People with BDD become preoccupied with a perceived bodily defect or flaw. They believe that they look ugly, unattractive, abnormal or deformed and often feel their appearance is offensive to others. Some people feel so bad about their appearance that you may hear them refer to themselves as looking “hideous” or like a “monster”. However, the perceived imperfection may not even be noticeable to others or if so, viewed as very slight.
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Hoarding Disorder

People who suffer from hoarding disorder have difficulty discarding or parting with their possessions & when faced with doing so, they experience distress. Because of this distress, individuals with hoarding disorder avoid discarding. The hoarding behavior causes distress and/or impairment in important areas of functioning such as work, social & conflict with interpersonal relationships.
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Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors

Individuals with excoriation (skin-picking) disorder pick at their skin which often results in lesions, infections, scarring and all too often, shame. People with trichotillomania (TTM or hair-pulling) pull body hair from various regions, which results in hair loss. In both cases, the picking and/or pulling, the individuals have made repeated attempts to decrease or stop the behavior and experience distress and/or impairment in important areas of life functioning.
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