Substance/Medication-Induced Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorder

Symptoms

• Obsessions, compulsions, skin picking, hair pulling, other body-focused repetitive behaviors, or other symptoms characteristic of the obsessive-compulsive and related disorders predominate in the clinical picture.

• There is evidence from the history, physical examination, or laboratory findings of both:

  1. The symptoms developed during or soon after substance intoxication or withdrawal or after exposure to a medication.

  2. The involved substance/medication is capable of producing the symptoms.

• The disturbance is not better explained by an obsessive-compulsive and related disorder that is not substance/medication-induced.

• The disturbance does not occur exclusively during the course of a delirium.

• The disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.