Compulsion

Compulsions
These are repetitive behaviors that you're driven to perform regularly to combat your obsessions, even though to you — and to others — they may seem irrational.
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Compulsions are small acts or rituals that a person performs over and over again in a desperate bid to make the obsessions go away.
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Compulsions, which are behaviors or rituals that are repeated intentionally to try to control the obsessions. Some people have rituals that are rigid and structured, while others have very complex rituals that change. Examples include: ...
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Drug dependence is a compulsion to take a drug to produce a desired effect or prevent unpleasant effects when the drug is withheld. Risk factors for drug abuse include: low self esteem, inability to deal with stress, and emotional instability.
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In response to their obsessions, most people with OCD resort to repetitive behaviors called compulsions. The most common of these are washing and checking.
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In order for a diagnosis of OCD to be made, the obsessions and compulsions must be pervasive, severe, and disruptive enough that the child or adolescent's activities of daily living and function are adversely affected.
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Usually, however, they will try to relieve their obsessions by performing some type of compulsion: a persistent, repeated ritual that is aimed at soothing their fears.
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=craze for stealing], irresistible compulsion to steal, motivated by neurotic impulse rather than material need. No specific cause is known.
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Craving: - A strong need, or compulsion, to drink.
Impaired control: -The inability to limit one's drinking on any given occasion.
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The psychoanalytic model gives considerable weight to the symbolic aspect of human anxiety; examples include phobic disorders, obsessions, compulsions, and other forms of anxiety that are highly individualized.
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Hypergraphia: The driving compulsion to write; the overwhelming urge to write.
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A person with obsessive-compulsive disorder has persistent thoughts, ideas, or images (obsessions) that are accompanied by repetitive behaviors (compulsions).
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by obsessions or compulsions. Having one or both is sufficient for the diagnosis. An obsession is a recurrent and intrusive thought, feeling, idea, or sensation.
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Nail biting can be a sign of anxiety, chronic tension or uncontrollable compulsion
Chronic picking or rubbing of the skin behind the visible portion of the nail can produce a washboard nail ...
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Evidence suggests that those long-lasting brain changes are responsible for the distortions of cognitive and emotional functioning that characterize addicts, particularly the compulsion to use drugs.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Diagnosed when a person is helpless to control intrusive and unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and/or to stop performing ritual actions (compulsions), such as counting, hand washing or repetitively checking locks.
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People who are dependent on or abuse alcohol return to its use despite evidence of physical or psychological problems. Those with dependence have more severe problems and a greater compulsion to drink.
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People who are dependent on or abuse alcohol return to its use despite evidence of physical or psychological problems, though those with dependence have more severe problems and a greater compulsion to drink.
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