The British Journal of Psychiatry 149: 108-112 (1986)
© 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Obsessional symptomatology and adverse mood states
BT Farid
Patients suffering from obsessional neurosis without other psychiatric
diagnosis were examined with reference to the association of the mood
disorders of depression, anxiety, and outwardly and inwardly directed
irritability. All mood disorders were common, and many occurred together in
individual patients, but anxiety was the most prevelant. Inwardly directed
irritability was significantly related to the overall severity of
obsessions, and to the degree of handicap or interference in everyday life
experienced by the patient.