| Sensory tic |
Somatic sensation in the body, especially in bones, muscles, and joints, that leads the individual to perform voluntary movements to relieve the sensation. |
Uncomfortable tactile, visceral, or musculoskeletal sensation that comes immediately before or accompanies the repetitive behavior. The individual is driven to repeat certain movements until he/she experiences a sense of relief. |
| Sensory phenomenon/premonitory experience |
Uncomfortable physical sensations in skin, muscles, joints, and other parts of the body that may be accompanied by perceptual stimuli (visual, auditory, tactile). |
Itchy, tense, or tight sensation with a specific anatomic location, which leads to the feeling of wanting to release the repetitive behavior. |
| Just-right experience |
A force, triggered by visual, auditory, or tactile perceptions, as well as a feeling of imperfection about actions and intention, that leads to the individual performing compulsive acts until the actions are felt by the individual to be complete. |
A need to feel that objects look a certain ‘just-right’ way; that objects and people sound a certain ‘just-right’ way; or that objects and people have to be touched in a certain ‘just-right’ way. |
| Urge |
A drive or impulse to perform the repetitive behavior in the absence of any obsession, worry, fear, or bodily sensation. |
A need to perform repetitive actions that is not preceded by obsessions or sensory phenomena. |
