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Christine - Germaphobe (OCD)

Christine has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Obsessions are unwanted thoughts, impulses, or images that get stuck in your head and bother you (such as excessive doubts, fear of germs, fear of hurting yourself or others, needing things to be done a certain way or to feel "right"). Compulsions are behaviours that are done repeatedly to reduce anxiety (such as excessive washing, counting, checking, or arranging). 

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See Christine's actions to manage her OCD.

This is a simulation created from real life cases of psychologists.