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OCD: Compulsions lead to obsessions, not the other way around

May 23, 2011 by

New scientific evidence challenges a popular conception that behaviors such as repetitive hand-washing, characteristic of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), are carried out in response to disturbing obsessive fears.

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