New ADAA Blog Post: Demystifying Mental Compulsions and "Pure-O"

"One of the more difficult symptoms of OCD that my patients deal with is the presence of mental compulsions.

Compulsions are anything a person does in an attempt to get rid of the anxiety/dread/yucky feelings associated with an obsession. There are many types of compulsions, but they fall into two categories: Behavioral and mental (or thinking) compulsions." ADAA member Patricia Thornton, PhD authors this new blog post on "Pure-O" OCD: adaa.org/learn-from-us/from...