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Kelvin (Shiu Fung) Wong, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology

What kind of a person am I? How fear and rejection can underpin OCD

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When you think about obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, does being a “neat freak” or “germaphobe” come to mind?

In fact, OCD is not a personality quirk. It’s a distressing and disabling psychiatric condition that affects around one in 50 of us.

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