One Reply All listener, who confessed to a certain level of obsessive-compulsive behavior, said that he had once stared anxiously at the number in the top left of his Gmail in-box: he had 9,999 e-mails, and wondered if Google had coded enough room for another digit.
"There are quite a few adolescent girls who have high levels of obsessive thinking to begin with," Dr. Sitnick said.
Findings indicate that schizotypal features are also found in association with nonclinical levels of obsessive-compulsive features, particularly checking behaviors.
But only obsessive-compulsive symptoms consistently predicted the intensity and duration of maladaptive daydreaming on the next day, regardless of the levels of obsessive-compulsive symptoms on that following day.
On days on which their MD was more intense and time-consuming, they also experienced higher levels of obsessive-compulsive symptoms, dissociation and negative emotion, and both types of anxiety.
Users with no direct exposure reported the lowest levels of obsessive-compulsive symptoms (Group 5, M = 49.1, SD = 9.6).
At pretreatment, the sample was characterized by moderate to severe levels of obsessive-compulsive symptom severity (M = 23.97, SD = 5.28) according to the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) [ 46].
Specifically, scores from 0 7 indicate subclinical levels of obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms; scores of 8 15 indicate mild symptoms; scores of 16 23 indicate moderate symptoms; scores of 24 31 indicate severe symptoms; and scores greater or equal to 32 indicate extreme symptoms.
Attention should be paid to increased levels of obsessive-compulsive, anxiety, phobic anxiety, interpersonal sensitivity, and paranoid ideation among local medical staff seen in the present study because of the very prevailing social stigma in Ebola affected areas.
