P79

Synonym

• Phobia/compulsive disorder

Criteria

• phobic anxiety disorder requires outspoken anxiety, evoked only in well defined situations that are not generally considered dangerous:
• the patient tries to avoid these situations, or endures them with dread. Obsessive compulsive disorder requires distressing and recurrent obsessional thoughts/acts recognized by the patient as his/her own
• compulsive stereotyped behaviours are repeated again and again, intended to prevent some objective unlikely event and recognized by the patient as pointless and ineffective

ICD-10

• F40.0; F40.1; F40.2; F40.8; F40.9; F42.0; F42.1; F42.2; F42.8; F42.9