{"id":139,"date":"2018-02-01T06:39:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T06:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychiatristinrohini.in\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2018-02-01T06:39:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T06:39:58","slug":"symptoms-of-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychiatristinrohini.in\/blog\/2018\/02\/01\/symptoms-of-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A common mental disorder is obsessive compulsive disorder. Understanding this behaviour in children is unfortunately a big mystery for people. Many people, including many psychotherapists, mistakenly think that OCD in children and adolescents is rare. As a result, children and adolescents with OCD are frequently misdiagnosed with depression, ADHD, conduct disorder, or other conditions. In actuality, childhood-onset OCD is fairly common, occurring in approximately 1% of all children. Furthermore, recent research indicates that approximately half of all adults with OCD experience clinical symptoms of the disorder during their childhood. In this article, we are going to highlight few very important symptoms of OCD in children. Understanding these symptoms, you could be able to know if your child is suffering from the same or not.<\/p>\n

Symptoms of Childhood and Adolescent OCD<\/strong><\/p>\n

A very important point to be mentioned here is that, the symptoms of childhood-onset OCD vary widely from child to child. Some common obsessions experienced by children and adolescents with OCD include:<\/p>\n