INCREASED OCD

Many children and young people with obsessive thoughts and compulsions have found that their OCD, anxiety and depressive symptoms worsen during a crisis such as COVID-19. The research from Aarhus University and the Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Central Denmark Region, found that almost half of the children and young people with OCD reported that their symptoms had become worse, while a third of them replied that their anxiety had worsened and a third that their depressive symptoms had worsened. And of these, almost a fifth experienced that both symptoms had got worse.