title: How to recognize obsessive-compulsive disorder.
abstract: Your patient is anxious, depressed, and nervous, yet the complaint you are being asked to address is a respiratory infection. You suspect that the real problem may be obsessive-compulsive disorder. What should you do? How do you confidently and accurately reach the diagnosis? Dr Alarcon shares his expertise in recognition and management of this increasingly common disorder.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Alarcon
mesh_terms: D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy
chemical_list: D000928:Antidepressive Agents