OCD is a distinct and highly debilitating condition characterized by intrusive, recurrent obsessions and compulsions that paradoxically strengthen the obsessions they are meant to alleviate.

“These two features, first, the fact that the obsessions are intrusive and recurrent, as well as the fact that the compulsions, the behaviors, provide, if anything, only brief relief for the obsessions, but in most cases simply serve to make the obsessions stronger are the hallmark features of obsess”