Here is what you need to know about OCD. What it means and what it looks like. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is when people have recurring unwanted thoughts, ideas, or sensations or obsession that makes one feel the drive to do something repetitively as a compulsion. These repeated behaviours can either be: washing hands, checking a lock on the door, cleaning things, or counting to a number. It can be categorized as a mental illness where an individual has both obsession and compulsion. OCD is not the same as having habits and thinking bad or negative thoughts. An obsessive thought might be similar to thinking that certain something is either extremely good or extremely bad. But a compulsive habit is doing something repeatedly. For example, if you touch something dirty, you then go on to wash your hands 9 times after. Even though they want to stop, they don’t possess the ability to stop and inevitably end up feeling powerless. Her...