MB23.4

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Compulsions

Description

Repetitive behaviours or rituals (e.g., washing, checking) or mental acts (e.g., repeating words silently) that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, according to rigid rules, or to achieve a sense of ‘completeness’.

Index terms

  • Compulsions
  • obsessive compulsive behaviour

Excludes

  • 6B20 – Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Exclusions from above levels

  • MG43.4Y – Insufficient intake of food or water due to self neglect
  • 19 – Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
  • JA66 – Clinical findings on antenatal screening of mother

Sibling codes

  • MB23.0 – Aggressive behaviour
  • MB23.1 – Antisocial behaviour
  • MB23.2 – Avoidance behaviour
  • MB23.3 – Bradyphrenia
  • MB23.5 – Coprolalia
  • MB23.6 – Disorganised behaviour
  • MB23.7 – Disheveled appearance
  • MB23.8 – Disruptive behaviour
  • MB23.9 – Echolalia
  • MB23.A – Excessive crying of child, adolescent, or adult
  • MB23.C – Increased sociability
  • MB23.D – Mutism
  • MB23.E – Non-suicidal self-injury
  • MB23.F – Odd or peculiar appearance
  • MB23.G – Odd or peculiar behaviour
  • MB23.H – Panic attack
  • MB23.J – Poor personal hygiene
  • MB23.K – Poverty of speech
  • MB23.L – Pressured speech
  • MB23.M – Psychomotor agitation
  • MB23.N – Psychomotor retardation
  • MB23.Q – Social withdrawal
  • MB23.R – Suicide attempt
  • MB23.S – Suicidal behaviour
  • MB23.Y – Other specified symptoms and signs involving appearance and behaviour
  • MB23.Z – Symptoms and signs involving appearance and behaviour, unspecified

Foundation entity

Compulsions – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1682814866

Part of: MB23: Symptoms or signs involving appearance or behaviour › 21: Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere classified