People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) experience anxiety that can look like fidgeting—repeatedly tapping on door knob handles, quick head movements, for example—but are actually tics. Tics are involuntary, unwanted, and distressing movements to the person that is experiencing them.
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