A 2007 study found that 78% of a clinical sample of OCD patients had<unk>  images. Most people who suffer from<unk> s have not identified themselves as having OCD, because they may not have what they believe to be classic symptoms of OCD, such as handwashing. Yet, epidemiological studies suggest that<unk> s are the most common kind of OCD worldwide; if people in the United States with<unk> s gathered, they would form the fourth-largest city in the US, following New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. The prevalence of OCD in every culture studied is at least 2% of the population, and the majority of those have obsessions, or bad<unk> s, only; this results in a conservative estimate of more than 2 million sufferers in the United States alone (as of 2000). One author estimates that one in 50 adults have OCD and about 10–20% of these have sexual obsessions. A recent study found that 25% of 293 patients with a primary diagnosis of OCD had a history of sexual obsessions.
Intrusive thought
Mindfulness
Homicidal ideation
Morbid love
Emotional detachment
Obsessive love
Distrust
Mirrored-self misidentification