Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Eating Disorder: Is there a link ?

ABSTRACT

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is seen to have links with eating disorders which have been demonstratedin the early 1900s and is supported by the personality trait of ‘compulsion neurosis’. Personality traitsshown to be shared between EDs and OCD are perfectionism and neuroticism. The review furtherexplores overlapping factors between the two conditions.