Items Tagged With “Impulse Control”

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) suffer intensely from recurrent unwanted thoughts (obsessions) or rituals (compulsions), which they feel they cannot control.

It is officially classified as an impulse control disorder, along the lines of pyromania, kleptomania, and pathologic gambling.

Impulse Control Disorders are a collection of clinical entities where patients know the wrongfulness or inappropriateness of their behaviors but have great difficulties controlling them.