OCD and Aggression/Violent Behavior

I'm sorry that you thought I was rude, but you should realize that A.) You are being dismissive and B.) It is not a fact that someone with OCD will NEVER engage in violence. According to the wording in your first reply you said "very RARELY do people with OCD act out in aggression." Rarely implies that it is possible for it to happen. So which is it? Is it a common fact that someone with OCD will rarely be violent, or is it a fact that someone with OCD will never be violent? I'm well aware of what I wrote. It just strikes me as hypocritical that you think I'm being rude for confronting your comment, when you were rude to begin with by being dismissive of what I wrote. Allow me to school you for a minute, if you don't mind doing a bit of research. Perhaps you haven't done your homework when it comes to studying OCD, so I've done the work for you. Here is a study done on "Anger Attacks in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" which is available on The National Center for Biotechnology Information website. You're probably not happy that your argument is getting blown to pieces by someone who actually did more research than you, well, hear me out. Let's put our thinking caps on here, and discuss what constitutes an "Anger Attack" within the confines of OCD. This was published in the Industrial Psychiatry Journal of India, "Our findings also suggest that subjects with AA (anger attacks) exhibit higher number of aggressive acts toward their family members and probably lead to an increase in burden on the family." It goes on to say, "The data on AA in diagnoses other than depression are sparse, especially from the eastern cultures. Our study, an attempt to fill this void, shows that in subjects with OCD 50% have AA and the OCD subjects with AA have more comorbid depression, have significantly higher irritability (both inward and outward), exhibit more aggressive acts toward their spouse, parents, children, and other relatives (i.e., toward their immediate and extended family) and have poorer QOL in psychological domain." And here is a chart that explains the possibilities of what an anger attack in OCD can amount to, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530280/table/T2/ If you notice at the left hand column it's broken down in categories that define the aggressive acts documented within OCD sufferers who experience anger attacks, they are as follows, "Aggressive acts: Threatening to leave, Refusal to talk, Yelling, Slamming, Breaking objects, Throwing objects, Threatening to hurt, TRYING TO HURT."

Here is the original source I quoted from which is available, like i said, through NCBI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530280/

With that said, if you'd like to apologize for trying to shut me up when I was legitimately explaining something that is documented in the OCD literature, I would be glad to accept your apology. Or are you going to be jealous that I actually know what I'm talking about? If you would like to try to prove me wrong by pointing me to scholarly sources which disprove everything that I have just explained, then do it, but don't give me attitude for having more knowledge than you appear to have about OCD. Being dismissive and calling me rude does not prove that you even know what you're talking about. Same goes to whoever voted down my original post.

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