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Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Sexual Minorities

Sexual minorities experience unique stress in the form of external discrimination, microaggressions, internalized stigma and homophobia, social rejection, and identity discomfort and concealment. The accumulation of these identity-based stressors is believed to explain the increased incidence of OCD in this population and have an effect on the content of their obsessive thoughts and types of compulsions.

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Updated 2023-01-22

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