Impact of COVID 19 on patient with obsessive compulsive disorder

Since COVID-19 was announced as a pandemic by WHO with strict emphasis on hand washing and disinfection, various media have focused the suffering of patients Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). In eyes general population, those (OCD) are viewed germophobic extreme cleaners who compulsively wash their hands. The same behaviors now encouraged to decrease one’s risk infection transmitting COVID-19. A recent clinical guide how manage OCD under echoes similar anxieties, proposing that might be more affected than any other group psychiatric disorder. Irrational fear contamination is only one specific manifestation OCD. Other common forms little direct relationship viruses germs. words, high level heterogeneity selectivity both across within symptom subtypes incongruent notion always directly relevant