Prevalence of Olfactory Reference Syndrome in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder

Article AbstractBecause this piece does not have an abstract, we have provided for your benefit the first 3 sentences of the full text.To the Editor: Olfactory reference syndrome (ORS) is a condition characterized by concerns about perceived body odor, which may lead to repetitive behaviors to diminish the odor, as well as to avoidance of social interactions. A range of other terms describing olfactory reference symptomatology has appeared in the literature; for example, based on the observation that it involves a single belief that is often delusional in intensity, ORS has been referred to as a type of monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychosis (eg, see references). ORS is now referred to in DSM-5 as a type of "other specified obsessive-compulsive and related disorder."