Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
Dimension 479 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms measures the presence and severity of intrusive thoughts, obsessional fears, and compulsive mental or behavioral rituals used to reduce distress or prevent feared outcomes. It encompasses contamination concerns, counting or repeating, rigid behavioral rules, fixation, and related recognition of these experiences as troubling or impairing.
evidence final name · Illness Diagnosis
Minimal Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
Expressions activating this band show little to no clear obsessive-compulsive content, with only vague concern, isolated stress, or unrelated self-report themes. Any repetitive, intrusive, or ritualized quality is absent or too weak to organize the expression.
Mild Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
Expressions activating this band show emerging intrusive thoughts or superstitious mental habits, such as believing certain words or numbers can prevent harm or judging one's own thoughts as abnormal. The symptoms are recognizable as obsessional in form but are described with limited elaboration or impairment.
Moderate Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
Expressions activating this band show persistent obsessional concern or compulsive tendencies, including worries about cleanliness, clutter accumulation, fixation on problems, or phobic-obsessional patterns. The expression conveys recurring mental preoccupation or ritualized control efforts as a meaningful part of experience.
High Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
Expressions activating this band show explicit compulsions or obsessions with clear ritual structure, such as counting, repeating special words, or strict cleaning behaviors performed to prevent something bad from happening. The expression presents these acts and thoughts as driven, specific, and difficult to resist.
Severe Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
Expressions activating this band show intense, intrusive, and distressing obsessional thoughts together with strongly impairing compulsive fear or ritual behavior, often centered on contamination or recognized obsessive-compulsive suffering. The experience is described as debilitating, frightening, and dominating attention.
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Minimal Illness Diagnosis: Illness diagnosis is present at a low level. Expressions activating this band reflect early or diffuse illness diagnosis.
Emerging Illness Diagnosis: Illness diagnosis is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where illness diagnosis was characterized by a general or mixed form, the proxy here has shifted in character. Expressions activating this band reflect illness diagnosis at this level of intensity.
Elevated Illness Diagnosis: Illness diagnosis is experienced here as observable behavioral patterns associated with problematic or disordered functioning. Unlike the band below, where illness diagnosis was characterized by a general form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band engage with illness diagnosis at a level associated with formal behavioral assessment.
Severe Illness Diagnosis: Illness diagnosis is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where illness diagnosis was characterized by the behavioral form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band reflect illness diagnosis at this level of intensity.