OCD is an anxiety spectrum disorder characterised by, in simple terms, unreasonable, repetitive thoughts or fears that cause anxiety and then a compulsion to act in a manner to attempt to decrease the anxiety. Photo: TNS
The thoughts repeat in your head – your date is bored. You picked a terrible restaurant. And what if she has an STI?
That’s a sliver of what it can be like to date with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD.
