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Anxiety Conditions & OCD

OCD: Unwanted and intrusive thoughts, urges, and images (obsessions) and attempts to ignore, get rid of, or neutralize these experiences through a thought or action (compulsions). Obsessions can include topics of contamination, harm, sensorimotor, self-control, "just-right", sin/morality, sexuality. Compulsions can include cleaning, checking, counting, arranging, repeating.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Excessive anxiety or worry about everyday topics.

Specific Phobias (e.g., spiders, heights, public spaces): excessive fear of certain objects or situations that are either avoided or experienced with high distress.

Social Anxiety (Social Phobia): a persistent fear of exposure to possible scrutiny or judgement by others.  

Panic Disorder: Unpredictable panic attacks that involve intense fear, discomfort, and somatic symptoms which are often accompanied by feelings of impending death or doom.

Health Fears & Somatic Distress

Illness Anxiety Disorder (hypochondriasis or health anxiety): Worries that you (or a loved one) may have or could acquire a serious disease or illness (e.g., heart disease, neurological condition, cancer).

Somatic Symptom Disorder: Distress and preoccupation with one or more physical symptoms (e.g., heart palpitations, chest pain, shortness of breath, nausea and abdominal discomfort, difficulty swallowing/dry mouth, headaches, dizziness, numbness/tingling, fatigue, trembling/shaking, poor concentration, blurred vision).

Sensorimotor OCD: A subtype of OCD that involves both obsession and compulsive responding to bodily sensations or processes — such as breathing, blinking, or focusing on your heartbeat.

Somatic specific phobias: e.g., fears of body dysfunctioning [i.e., choking, vomiting, incontinence], fear of physical sensations.

Medical or health specific phobias: e.g., fear of death, fear of needles.

Body Focused Repetitive Behaviours (BFRBs): BFRBs are a cluster of compulsive and habitual behaviours that include hair pulling (trichotillomania), skin picking (excoriation), nail biting, nose picking, and lip or cheek biting.

PTSD and other stress/trauma-related conditions: Prolonged distress reactions that are precipitated by stress/trauma.

Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Preoccupation with one or more perceived defects or flaws in physical appearance that are not observable or appear slight to others.

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Medical Diagnoses related to anxiety or stress: including insomnia and other sleep issues, IBS, and tension headaches.

Personality tendencies: including perfectionism or tendency to be self-critical, feeling overly responsible or overly organized, persistent self-doubts or never feeling good enough, and difficulties tolerating uncertainty, lack of control, and/or being disliked/disapproved of.

Common Co-Occuring Concerns