• Excessive concern with contamination?
• Repetitive urge to wash hands even while knowing they’re not dirty?
• Frequent excessive checking of items like locks and stoves for reassurance?
• Fear of blurting out obscenities?
• Unwanted sexual thoughts or images?
• Preoccupation with arranging things in order, symmetry and counting?

If you do so at a level that causes impairment of everyday functioning, then you could possibly have obsessive-compulsive disorder.

• Fortunately, we have various treatment options like medication and behavioural therapy.
• But if all else fails, one can go for a surgical procedure called deep brain stimulation.
• It is a procedure where specific areas of the brain are selectively stimulated for symptom abatement.
• To learn more about DBS, attend the talk by experts.