compulsions
Can't-help-it behaviors
Compulsions are urges to perform certain actions, especially repetitive behaviors driven by anxiety or obsessive thoughts.
In clinical contexts, compulsions pair with obsessions in OCD—the obsessive fear of contamination produces compulsive handwashing, for instance.
More loosely, a compulsion is any strong, hard-to-resist impulse: She felt a compulsion to check her phone every few minutes.
Ceremonial repeated practices
- intrusive thoughtsInvoluntary disturbing mental content
- fixationPersistent mental attachment
- OCDCompulsive repetition disorder
- checkingAct of verification
washing · counting · hoarding · symmetry · orderliness · cleaning · perfectionism · repetitive
Regular repeated behaviors
- routinesEstablished sequences of actions
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- patternsRecurring arrangements or designs
- repetitiveMarked by recurrence
automatic · ingrained · involuntary · tics · nail-biting · hair-pulling · trichotillomania · stereotypy
Persistent apprehensive distress
- neurosisFunctional mental disorder
- disorderAbsence of organization
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- treatmentCare for an ailment
cognitive · irrational · unwanted · distress · dysfunction · pathological · clinical · diagnosis
Sudden inclinations to act
- cravingsIntense desires for something
- drivesMoves or compels
- desiresStrong wants or cravings
- longingsIntense persistent desires
yearnings · needs · appetites · inclinations · temptations · itches · pangs · hankerings
State of needing another
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- substancePhysical material with mass
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- alcoholismAddiction to drinking
relapse · tolerance · rehabilitation · detoxification · binge · abstinence · recovery · intervention
rituals
Ceremonial repeated practices
- intrusive thoughtsInvoluntary disturbing mental content
- fixationPersistent mental attachment
- OCDCompulsive repetition disorder
checking · washing · counting · hoarding · symmetry · orderliness · cleaning · perfectionism · repetitive · preoccupations
habits
Regular repeated behaviors
- routinesEstablished sequences of actions
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- patternsRecurring arrangements or designs
repetitive · automatic · ingrained · involuntary · tics · nail-biting · hair-pulling · trichotillomania · stereotypy · perseveration
anxiety
Persistent apprehensive distress
treatment · cognitive · irrational · unwanted · distress · dysfunction · pathological · clinical · diagnosis · psychiatry
impulses
Sudden inclinations to act
longings · yearnings · needs · appetites · inclinations · temptations · itches · pangs · hankerings · proclivities
dependence
State of needing another
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- substancePhysical material with mass
- withdrawalAct of taking away
alcoholism · relapse · tolerance · rehabilitation · detoxification · binge · abstinence · recovery · intervention · enabler
- will disordersapathy, impulsivity, disinhibition
- Anxietyanxiety, nervousness, panic, worry, generalized anxiety
- behaviorshabit, aggressive, agitation, conduct, passive
- mental symptomsanxiety, depression, paranoia, hallucination, delusion
- OCDOCD, obsession, obsessions, intrusive thoughts, checking
- Psychiatric Symptomshallucinations, delusions, paranoia, psychosis, flat affect
compulsionsfreedoms
Rights to act unhindered
free will · choices · voluntary actions · autonomy · volition
compulsionsself-control
Ability to restrain impulses
self-mastery · equanimity · composure · willpower · indifference
- under compulsionNot by choice