ALT Black text on a blue-green gradient background reads: What OCD Is: A debilitating mental health disorder characterized by obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions are unwanted intrusive thoughts or mental images that trigger intense distress, fear, or disgust. Compulsions (sometimes called rituals) are behaviors, whether visible or mental, acted on in response to the obsessions, to reduce the distress or protect from the perceived consequences of an intrusive thought (for example, checking the stove repeatedly to avoid setting the house on fire). On the page are 2 little scraps of notepaper, each with the title "did you know". The facts are: WHO lists OCD in the top 10 most debilitating illnesses! Intrusive thoughts are ego-dystonic, meaning they go against your deeply held values! You do not choose to think them