Obsessive Preoccupation
Dimension 48 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Obsessive Preoccupation measures the extent to which an expression reflects intrusive, repetitive, or fixated mental and behavioral involvement with thoughts, ideas, rules, or activities. It encompasses compulsive rituals, persistent mental preoccupation, and absorption that becomes difficult to disengage from.
evidence final name · Psychosis Psq
Minimal Obsessive Preoccupation
Expressions activating this band show little to no clear repetitive fixation or compulsive mental involvement, with content that is largely neutral, diffuse, or only loosely related to sustained preoccupation.
Mild Obsessive Preoccupation
Expressions activating this band show early signs of intrusive or hard-to-control thinking, such as racing thoughts, irrational ideas, suspicious ideation, or concentration disrupted by recurring mental activity.
Moderate Obsessive Preoccupation
Expressions activating this band show clear repetitive preoccupation or compulsive tendencies, including ritualized acts, persistent happy overactivation with sustained involvement, cluttering accumulation, or becoming so absorbed in activities that other concerns drop away.
High Obsessive Preoccupation
Expressions activating this band show pronounced fixation that organizes thought or behavior, such as counting rituals, compulsive repetition, persistent obsessing over problems, or becoming captured by new ideas to the point that ongoing tasks are displaced.
Severe Obsessive Preoccupation
Expressions activating this band show intense, consuming obsession marked by prolonged staring, inability to let go of a particular focus, and a felt grip of certain thoughts or perceptual details that dominates attention.
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Minimal Psychosis Psq: Psychosis psq is present at a low level. Expressions activating this band reflect early or diffuse psychosis psq.
Emerging Psychosis Psq: Psychosis psq is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where psychosis psq was characterized by a general or mixed form, the proxy here has shifted in character. Expressions activating this band reflect psychosis psq at this level of intensity.
Elevated Psychosis Psq: Psychosis psq is experienced here at a level consistent with formal clinical assessment and disorder-relevant measurement. Unlike the band below, where psychosis psq was characterized by a general form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band likely reflect psychosis psq at a clinical or disorder-relevant level.
Severe Psychosis Psq: Psychosis psq is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where psychosis psq was characterized by the clinical form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band reflect psychosis psq at this level of intensity.