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Can Stress Make OCD Worse?

Can Stress Make OCD Worse? (0:34)

Stress and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) often go hand in hand. In this WisePatient video, psychatrist Wayne Goodman, MD, of the Mount Sinai Medical Center, explains how stress may exacerbate OCD symptoms.

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Stress can often exascabate the symptoms of OCD with rare exceptions and those exceptions will probably be a very severe traumatic event, you could see new OCD, but in most cases it's not a single event. OCD tends to develop insidiously over time.[MUSIC].