Later in the seventeenth century, obsessions and compulsions were also described as symptoms of melancholy. So around this time, a new word for obsessions and compulsions came into usage, scrupulosity. Much of the earlier historical record of OCD descriptions are in the religious, rather than the medical literature, and what is clear from the cases we have found, is that from the in the 14th and 18th century, obsessional fears around religion were commonplace.
Of course the name OCD did not come into being until the 20th century, but prior to that earlier references to symptoms we would now call Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder were surprisingly called scrupulosity. Finding early historical descriptions of OCD does exist, with some clear detailed likely cases dating back to the 14th century, some of which we will look at below. People experiencing problems with obsessions and compulsions (what we now call OCD) will have probably been around since people have been around. On the contrary, evidence shows numerous examples of OCD type symptoms in the lives of figures throughout the ages. The incidence of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) or Obsessive Compulsive Neurosis as it was once known, is a relatively common disorder and can be traced historically, cross-culturally and across a broad social spectrum and does not appear to restrict itself to any specific group of individuals.
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