Treatment for OCD can be delivered through outpatient therapy ... on a scale from 1-10 in terms of the amount of anxiety the situation would produce for you. For example, perhaps touching a door ...

With proper treatment, OCD symptoms can be reduced and the person ... in ERP would be told to deliberately trigger contamination anxiety by touching the floor or the bottoms of their shoes ...

"OCD causes a person to feel they have to do rituals to do things in a certain way to make them feel less anxious… but in reality [compulsions] heighten anxiety." Common types of obsessions and ...