OCD is a brain disorder that is characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears that are recurrent with intense obsessions and or behaviors that cause acute discomfort and interfere with day-to-day functioning. Obsessions are recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that trigger anxiety or stress. Frequently, they are unrealistic or irrational, but involve repetitive behaviors or rituals such as washing hands due to fear of germs, sleeping at a certain bedtime, or making sure things are clean, safe, or right in a sort of way. In OCD, the obsessions can increase so significantly that the all the amount of anxiety and stress precipitated can disrupt a person’s normal life, academic functioning, and social relationships at an early
