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to you by washing your hands Not of these videos

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Please don't wash your hands of these all right here's

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our question You'll washes her hands twelve times a day

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She might have which of the following disorders And here

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a potential answers aren't ptsd obsessive indirectly All right hey

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doesn't really make a lot of sense unless jill had

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a terrible previous experience when eating ice cream on a

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hot summer day We can't imagine how ptsd would cause

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repetitious and washing and thankfully for us in jail neither

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see nor d really fit the bill either as an

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emotional disorder characterized by refusal to eat and an emotional

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disorder characterized by overeating and then self induced vomiting I

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don't have much at all to do with hand washing

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and what we're describing is xenophobia either since there's no

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mention of being afraid of something right So even if

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this hand washing was a result of a fear of

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germs we wouldn't know that from the question And speaking

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of phobias boba phobia is a fear of phobias and

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therefore it is in our answer all right we'll be

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fits the bill obsessive compulsive disorder or o c d

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is marked by frequent intrusive anxiety provoking thoughts and repetitive

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behaviors to alleviate the obsession washing hands repeatedly could very

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well be a symptom of o c d or some

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guilt if your lady mac bee so in order to

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get a full diagnosis thiss behaviour would have to be

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accompanied by intrusive thoughts about what would happen if the

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handwashing didn't take her But don't let that deter you

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from maintaining good hygiene Not washing your hands isn't a 00:01:37.193 --> [endTime] mental disorder It's Just growth

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