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WORDS TO UNDERSTAND

ADA: the Americans With Disabilities Act is a U.S. federal law that provides increased access and protections for those with certain physical challenges. Obsessive-compulsive disorder sufferers who have difficulty finding work due to their affliction can apply for assistance under the ADA chronic: referring to a long-lasting, lifetime, or otherwise persistent medical condition; symptoms might be effectively treated, but the disorder itself might remain compulsion: as it relates to obsessive-compulsive disorder, an overwhelming urge to perform a certain act or ritual to prevent a frightening outcome, such as counting, praying, checking, or thinking of certain “neutral” objects DSM-5 , or the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders : the standard handbook of the mental health field; obsessive compulsive disorder appears in its own category here manifestation: in medical terms, how the symptoms of a condition, disorder, or disease appear in a patient

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