Occurrence of obsessive-compulsive symptoms among patients of anxiety and depression

Both anxiety disorders (AD) and depressive disorders (DD) are clinically heterogeneous, and substantial differences in clinical presentation and course occur between individual patients. Clinical practice would benefit from specifies that distinguish between mild disorders with favorable course trajectories and severe disorders with unfavorable course trajectories. Co morbidity in both anxiety and depressive disorders is observed in many patients while diagnosing. Many patients were observed to have some of the characteristic symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) present in patients suffering from anxiety and depressive disorders. The current study focuses on studying the co morbidity of OCD among the patients of Anxiety and depression. A total of 70 patients of (35 with anxiety disorder and 35 depressive disorders) were included in this study. HARS, HDRS and YBOCS were applied in all the patients who fulfilled the selection criteria. It was found that, approximately 28.5% of the total sample selected of anxiety disorder had severe OCD symptoms and 14.3% had extreme OCD symptoms. Furthermore, around 17.1% patients of depressive disorder were found to have severe OCD symptoms whereas 8.5% were found to have extreme co morbidity of OCD. Therefore, it was concluded that intervention techniques for OCD should also be combined with the treatment and intervention of AD and DD in order to assist in rapid recovery of the patient.