Author:
Prasad Sambhu,Manna Chayan
Abstract
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is marked by intrusive thoughts, images, and impulses which are recurrent in nature, disturbing, and senseless. Typical anxiety provoking and distressing themes of the disorder include various forms such as repeated unwanted ideas, repeated urge of hurting to self, fear of contamination, aggressive impulses, sexual thoughts, guilt, and repetitive behaviors to relieve that anxiety in the form of repetitive cleaning, checking, arranging, etc., Here, we tried to describe a phenotypically different and rare form of OCD through a case of a 51-year old lady who had an obsessional fear of her own shadow.
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