Mental Health experts say there has been a notable increase of people presenting with OCD symptoms since the onset of the pandemic, and that these symptoms have become harder to easily detect.
Psychologist Cassie Lavell, from the Children's Centre for Anxiety and OCD on the Gold Coast, has observed a nearly 50 per cent increase in patients over three months.
According to Ms Lavell, the pandemic had made treating OCD more difficult due to it masking some sufferer's symptoms, including the normalisation of hand sanitiser usage and avoidance of touching surfaces