*1.Please give some examples of client Obsessions you have encountered in your clinical practice.

Obsessions are repetitive and persistent and can take the form of:
· thoughts,
· images, or
· impulses/urges
that are intrusive, unwanted, and commonly cause anxiety, fear or doubt. The individual attempts to ignore or suppress obsessions or to neutralize them by performing compulsions because they are so distressing.

Examples include fears of contamination (dirt, germs bodily waste etc), ‘what if I’m sick from an undiagnosed fatal illness’?, having ‘impure’ thoughts, fears of going crazy and harming others, etc(Required.)

*2.Please give some examples of client compulsions you have encountered in your practice.
Compulsions are repetitive behaviours including repetitive mental acts that the individual:
-feels driven to perform
-does in response to an obsession/ urge or doubt,
-according to rigid rules, or
to achieve a sense of ‘completeness’.

Examples include an excessive preoccupation with doing religious rituals until they are “just right”, checking (doors, locks, switches etc), asking for reassurance, handwashing etc(Required.)

*3.Which Country do you work in?(Required.)

*4.What taboo or moral issues have you experienced as an influence on your client's obsessions?

We are aware that the content of the individual’s obsessions is often dependent on what constitutes a taboo or moral issue in their community.

For example, concerns about contamination may focus on syphilis in one region, or on HIV in another. While OCD with a religious theme is more prevalent in areas where religion has an important role in society.(Required.)

*5.Do you have any questions about OCD that you would like us to address in our talk?(Required.)