It also worsens obsessive-compulsive symptoms in people with the disorder.

A description of Sedaris' obsessive-compulsive and Tourettes symptoms as a child.

For some, medication, support groups and psychological treatments fail to alleviate obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

Then, four years ago, his wife was killed in a car bombing (still unsolved), and he developed a plethora of obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

Sertraline affects chemicals in the brain that may become unbalanced and cause depression, panic, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

Two other unrelated patients who had Tourette's and obsessive-compulsive symptoms also had rare abnormalities in the same gene.

Fluvoxamine affects chemicals in the brain that may become unbalanced and cause obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

Research is mixed on the possible connection between Catholicism and obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

It typically disappears when their obsessive-compulsive symptoms are brought under control.

Other frequently occurring features include anxiety, depression, paranoia, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and psychosis.