teaching self-management techniques and making the appropriate referrals, aimed at rebuilding the patient's self-esteem.
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The article described the disorder further as something, which frustrates and humiliates the patient himself but which he cannot ignore. Common obsessions are fear of dirt or germs, disgust over body waste and secretions, harming a family member, undue preoccupation with balance and symmetry and precision, u
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