Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
Dimension 489 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms measures the presence and intensity of intrusive thoughts, compulsive urges, and repetitive acts performed to reduce distress, prevent harm, or create a sense of completeness or control. It encompasses contamination concerns, checking, counting, ritualized behavior, hoarding-like accumulation, and related experiences of mental or behavioral compulsion.
evidence final name · Impact Subjective
Absent Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
Expressions activating this band contain little to no clear evidence of intrusive thoughts, ritualized behavior, or compulsive control efforts. They tend to be miscellaneous or only loosely related to unusual concerns without a recognizable obsessive-compulsive pattern.
Mild Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
Expressions activating this band show isolated hints of unusual beliefs, reduced confidence in judgment, or early disturbance in thought content without a sustained pattern of rituals or compulsive neutralizing. The experience is psychologically notable but not yet clearly organized around repetitive obsessional concerns or acts.
Moderate Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
Expressions activating this band show intrusive thoughts, repetitive mental content, or pressure toward routines and counting, often alongside distressing reactions and a sense that thoughts are hard to dismiss. The experience includes recognizable obsessional features and emerging compulsive structure.
High Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
Expressions activating this band show persistent unwanted thoughts together with checking, watchfulness, repetitive acts, accumulation, or stereotyped behavior used to manage threat, uncertainty, or internal discomfort. The experience is organized around compulsion and mental preoccupation in daily life.
Severe Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
Expressions activating this band show explicit obsessions and compulsions, including contamination fears, counting, repeating, special words or movements, and rigid rituals intended to prevent bad outcomes or relieve incompleteness. The experience is pervasive, strongly identified as obsessive-compulsive, and dominated by intrusive thoughts and repetitive control behavior.
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Minimal Impact Subjective: Expressions show no meaningful impact subjective content. The proxy is effectively absent. Expressions activating this band are unrelated to impact subjective.
Emerging Impact Subjective: Impact subjective is present here in a general or mixed form without a single dominant facet. This is the first band where impact subjective becomes detectable. Expressions activating this band may reflect general or diffuse impact subjective.
Elevated Impact Subjective: Impact subjective is experienced here at a level consistent with formal clinical assessment and disorder-relevant measurement. Unlike the band below, where impact subjective was characterized by a general or mixed form, the proxy here has shifted in character. Expressions activating this band likely reflect impact subjective at a clinical or disorder-relevant level.
Severe Impact Subjective: Impact subjective is experienced here as direct functional disruption, reflecting interference with daily life and measurable impairment. Unlike the band below, where impact subjective was characterized by the clinical form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band likely reflect direct functional disruption from impact subjective.