... fears of infection, the need to confess or ask permission, forbidden thoughts, excessive religious or moral doubt, aggressive urges and fear of harming others or self (Levenkron, 1991). Compulsions are acts, which people with OCD perform in order to make obsessions go away. Compulsions are performed usually according to certain arbitrary rules a number of times to the satisfaction of the person ... friends and family, and can seek treatment or possibly even change their behaviors themselves. Sometimes I have felt that I myself am in denial of OCD. For many years as a child I would bath ...

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