Sexual Dysfunction in A Sample of Female Patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Abstract

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic disabling disorder and presenting with obsessions and/or compulsions. OCD is one of the most disorders affecting the patient‘s quality of life. Obsessions include thoughts, feelings, images and urges. They are illogical, unwanted and incongruent. They waste time and interfere with the normal living, occupational functioning, usual social activities or interpersonal relationships. Unlike obsession, compulsion is a behavior. Although compulsion may be associated with obsessions trying to reduce the anxiety, but does not always lead to reducing anxiety. Anxiety may remain unchanged or even increase. It is conscious and recurrent such as counting, checking, or avoiding.