How was OCD, along with hair-pulling disorder, skin-picking disorder, and hoarding, reclassified in the DSM-5?
What will be an ideal response?
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? OCD had previously been classified in the DSM as an anxiety disorder.
? In the DSM-5 OCD, along with hoarding, hair-pulling, and skin-picking disorders, were given their own diagnostic category.
? This reclassification was made because all these disorders have features of repetitiveness, problems with behavioral inhibition, and show comorbidity.
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