Hello Trying, a traumatic experience can trigger this illness, it did for me, and they intrude on you when you're trying to think of or do other things.
It makes you perform repetitive actions that are excessive, time-consuming and can be distressing, and you maybe aware of the irrational and excessive nature of their obsessions and compulsions, but feel you are unable to control their obsessions or resist their compulsions.
How you feel and what you do to normal anxiety is that it happens when you're in a certain situation that always worries you, and that's not pleasant, but it prevents you from even contemplating that action, like hopping onto a plane, while a learned anxiety, that is having OCD, has now caused you to keep washing your hands as soon as you think they are dirty of germs on a continuous basis and at any time.
This could happen every few minutes or you decide to check the lock every time you pass it or when you have this thought that you must check.
Another part to OCD is that intrusive thoughts develop, these maybe thoughts that you want to hurt g/b/friend or someone else you love and are unreasonable.
Please ask anything you want.
Geoff.
