Signs You Have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Fears of violence

Everybody has fleeting thoughts about the possibility of being affected by violence or other misfortunes. The more we try to avoid thoughts like this, the more they pop into our heads, research shows—and this appears to be especially true for people with OCD. They "could be trying harder to suppress these thoughts," Szymanski says, "or they may react more intensely to them because they deem them as unacceptable."