Obsessions

Description

Repetitive and persistent thoughts (e.g., of contamination), images (e.g., of violent scenes), or impulses/urges (e.g., to stab someone) that are experienced as intrusive, unwanted, and are commonly associated with anxiety.

Index terms

Obsessions

Exclusions from above levels

19 – Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
JA66 – Clinical findings on antenatal screening of mother

Sibling codes

MB26.0 – Delusion
MB26.1 – Experiences of influence, passivity, and control
MB26.2 – Grandiosity
MB26.3 – Homicidal ideation
MB26.4 – Identity disturbance
MB26.6 – Overvalued ideas
MB26.7 – Paranoid ideation
MB26.8 – Referential thinking
MB26.9 – Suspiciousness
MB26.A – Suicidal ideation
MB26.Y – Other specified symptoms or signs involving content of thought
MB26.Z – Symptoms or signs involving content of thought, unspecified

Foundation entity

Obsessions – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1638858328

Part of: MB26: Symptoms or signs involving content of thought › 21: Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere classified