"Non-sufferers [can] usually quickly dismiss those thoughts and continue with their day," Anna Prudovski, psychologist and clinical director of Turning Point Psychological Services, tells Bustle. "But individuals with OCD tend to take those thoughts very seriously.."

"If you have social anxiety, you probably heard numerous suggestions about relaxing, practicing deep abdominal breathing and thinking positive thoughts.," Anna Prudovski, psychologist and clinical director of Turning Point Psychological Services, tells upjourney.com.

"A person [with OCD] may ask endless questions about the possibility of them having a serious disorder or a possibility of having unknowingly done something that may be morally wrong," Anna Prudovski, psychologist and clinical director of Turning Point Psychological Services, tells Bustle.

Anna Prudovski, an Ontario psychologist and clinical director of Turning Point Psychological Services, defines OCD as a sliding scale or a continuum with hardly noticeable symptoms on the one end and extremely severe presentation on the other end.