Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Psyche – Nervous System (F00-F99; G00-G99).

  • Anxiety disorders
  • Depression
  • Eating disorders
  • Early childhood autism
  • Hypochondria – excessive concern about one’s own state of health.
  • Kleptomania (addiction to stealing)
  • Inferiority
  • Paraphilias (sexual deviance) – mental disorders that manifest as marked and recurrent sexually arousing fantasies, urges, sexual needs, or behaviors that deviate from the empirical “norm” and that relate to inanimate objects, pain, humiliation, or non-consenting persons such as children
  • Personality disorders
  • Schizophrenia
  • Sleep disorders
  • Gender identity disorders
  • Sexual preference disorders
  • Addictive disorders such as alcohol or drug abuse.
  • Tic disorder