Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Podcast & Factsheet

Use this podcast and accompanying factsheet to teach your students about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: OCD is an anxiety disorder, characterised by the presence of recurring intrusive and unwanted thoughts, images, or impulses - obsessions and repetitive behavioural and mental rituals - compulsions. People with OCD are usually aware that their symptoms are irrational and excessive, but they find the obsessions uncontrollable impossible to resist.