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Is ICD Similar To Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?

sir... i ram ... 35 yrs old... i am diagnosed wt ocd (pure O).. with out overt compulsion by a psychiatrist and undergone treatment since the last 6 yrs... and got good result and remission....medicine is fluoxetine 80 mg in initial.. now its dosage is 40 mg per day.. the last medication tapered from 60mg to 40mg was thr last two weeks befor... now i have a doubt about ocd... my obsession is mainly about accidently involve in any crime or hit by car to any one...like.... i got good remission through tge flouxetine treatmnet.. sir nw my doubt is long lasting ocd may turn to other psychiatric disorder.. sply impulse controll disorder very sply kleptomania... i am frearing about a new onset of kleptomania on me... (100% i am guarenteed to u that.., in my lyfe experience , till today .., i have no such impulses... ) bt yday i heard that icd is also a type of ocd disordr.. is it right? till ydy i believed its a impulse controll disorder and entirely deffer from ocd... what is the real fact? and have any chance to me to happen a onset of kleptomania or icd in this my age.. thankuu sir.... b
Mon, 24 Jul 2017
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hi, many times we have seen that in ocd also a impluse come. so its not an impluse controlled disorder, it is your ocd symptoms. tell your psychiatrist regarding so he can either increase dose or start your psychotherapy.
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Is ICD Similar To Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?

hi, many times we have seen that in ocd also a impluse come. so its not an impluse controlled disorder, it is your ocd symptoms. tell your psychiatrist regarding so he can either increase dose or start your psychotherapy.