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The 55 pages that link to Obsessive–compulsive disorder, each with the reason it gives.

• AnxietyCompared with: Its repetitive rituals distinguish it from anxiety disorders, despite overlapping fear and distress.

• Specific phobiaCompared with: Avoidance may occur, but the central pattern involves obsessions and compulsions.

• Anxiety disorderCompared with: It was grouped with anxiety disorders in older classifications but has its own category in current manuals.

• PsychosisCompared with: Obsessions are usually experienced as intrusive thoughts, unlike many fixed delusions.

• Generalized anxiety disorderCompared with: Its intrusive obsessions and repetitive rituals distinguish it from generalized everyday worry.

• Eating disorderCompared with: Ritualized eating can resemble compulsions, though the underlying diagnostic patterns differ.

• Delusional disorderCompared with: Obsessions are usually experienced differently from delusions, though insight can vary.

• Gambling disorderCompared with: Repetitive behavior occurs in both, but the motives and diagnostic features differ.

• TrichotillomaniaCompared with: Despite its diagnostic grouping, hair pulling need not be driven by classic obsessions or rituals.

• Anticipatory anxietyCompared with: Future-oriented fears can occur in OCD, but obsessions and compulsions define the disorder.

• Illness anxiety disorderCompared with: Health-related checking may resemble compulsions, but illness anxiety disorder centers on disease preoccupation.

• Impulse control disorderCompared with: Its repetitive acts commonly reduce anxiety, unlike urges pursued for immediate gratification.

• HaphephobiaCompared with: Fear of contact can accompany contamination obsessions, which differ from a specific touch phobia.

• Muscle dysmorphiaCompared with: Repetitive behaviors may resemble compulsions, but the core preoccupation concerns perceived appearance defects.

• Obsessive–compulsive personality disorderCompared with: OCD involves unwanted obsessions or rituals; OCPD centers on enduring personality traits.

• Orthorexia nervosaCompared with: Similarities in rigidity do not establish that orthorexia is a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

• TriskaidekaphobiaCompared with: Avoiding 13 can occur in obsessive-compulsive disorder, but the behavior alone does not establish that diagnosis.

• Hoarding disorderCompared with: Hoarding disorder was once classified within this diagnosis but is now separate.

• KleptomaniaCompared with: Both can involve repetitive acts, but kleptomania centers on stealing urges rather than obsessions and rituals.

• MonomaniaCompared with: It is a modern diagnosis for some repetitive thoughts and behaviors once folded into broad historical labels.

• AblutophobiaCompared with: Fear of washing is distinct from compulsive washing driven by contamination obsessions.

• Clinical vampirismCompared with: Repetitive behavior alone does not establish this diagnosis in a person who drinks blood.

• Diogenes syndromeCompared with: Hoarding can occur in this disorder, but Diogenes syndrome has a broader pattern.

• Maladaptive daydreamingCompared with: Difficulty stopping fantasy can resemble compulsivity, but the experiences are not thereby the same disorder.

• PhobophobiaCompared with: Intrusive worries may resemble feared thoughts, but the defining pattern includes obsessions or compulsions.