Obsessive-compulsive disorder—another anxiety disorder—usually starts to come out around young adulthood because people start to leave the nest and now you’re looking for some type of way to control your environment that you may have had when you were at home—which was stable—but now all of a sudden you’re on your own and you’re trying to figure out how to do that,” Dr.
“You can also have social anxiety at 14 or 15. Obsessive-compulsive disorder—another anxiety disorder—usually starts to come out around young adulthood because people start to leave the nest and now you’re looking for some type of way to control your environment that you may have had when you were at home—which was stable—but now all of a sudden you’re on your own and you’re trying to figure out how to do that,” Dr. Fletcher said.