Yet they must perform their compulsive acts to relieve repeated overwhelming attacks of anxiety.

Was it the compulsive act of a manager who has never reached the playoffs, or a no-brainer move to get younger legs on the bases?

To this day, there is no evidence of his endangering his millions with compulsive acts, but it seemed like a fair question at the time.

Early this morning, Herman Edwards checked his watch, a compulsive act of football coaches everywhere.

When he was Heidi Krieger, scratching of the hands became a compulsive act and sometimes drew blood.

She's probably ashamed of hiding the letters - but it's the sort of compulsive act jealousy drives people to.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by recurrent obsessional thoughts or compulsive acts.

Many obsessive and compulsive acts and thoughts might be manifestations of functional autonomy.

Obsessive thoughts and compulsive acts may focus around real-life problems the patient is confronting or may take on a bizarre nature.

Compulsive acts or rituals are stereotyped behaviours that are repeated again and again.

For Mr. Irving, rewriting is a compulsive act.

Since the evidence for the motivation of compulsive acts in animals is yet not known, the term 'Abnormal repetitive behaviour' is better to be used when talking about non-human species.

With exposure and response prevention therapy, you repeatedly expose yourself to an obsession, such as something you fear is contaminated, and deny yourself the ritual compulsive act, which in this case would be washing your hands.

Elizabeth, after suffering childhood traumas of her mother's depression and attempts at suicide (beginning, progressing and ending with food and cooking) has left her with neurosis (a mild personality disorder in which obsessive thoughts and/or compulsive acts and feelings of anxiety are displayed) and an irrational fear of food.