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Obsession Compulsion Disorder, (OCD) is the fourth most common psychiatric diagnosis affecting about one out of forty people in the United States (Hyman and Pedrick, 2005). Not surprising most people in one way shape or form has some degree of OCD. Sixty five percent of people with OCD develop the disorder before the age of thirty-five and less than 15 percent develop it after the age of thirty-five (Hyman and Pedrick, 2005). Women have a slightly higher chance to be diagnosed with OCD where as boys out number girls by about two to one. Symptoms of OCD usually begin gradually and continue to worsen through out a person’s life. However some people have reported to have a sudden onset of symptoms (Hyman and Pedrick, 2005).
OCD can be very crippling to a person’s life according to what degree they have it. There are among three different degrees of OCD that can cause its victims emotional and functional impairment (Sebastian, 1993). They are the following; episodic, continuous,......

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