_____ refers to a psychological disorder in which an individual has anxiety-provoking thoughts that will not go away and urges to perform repetitive, ritualistic behaviors to prevent or produce some future situation.
When someone is driven by anxiety to preform repetitive an ritualistic things in order to stave off bad happenings this is called Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder . Often times this mental illness is centered on a fear of germs or a need for object to be arranged in a specific design. Symptoms often start in a slow manner and can alter throughout life. This illness can be treated with medicine and/or talk therapy.
