What is Obsession Compulsion Disorder (OCD)?
OCD (Obsession Compulsion Disorder) is a disorder in which person or people have unwanted thoughts, recurring, ideas or sensations, to get rid from the thoughts, they feel out to do something repetitively called compulsions. The repetitive behaviors such as checking on things, and cleaning and washing or mental acts like outing or other activities, can significantly interfere with a person’s daily social interaction or activities.
OCD (Obsession Compulsion Disorder) requires the presence of obsessional thoughts or compulsions that are time consuming, more than one hour a day, cause significant distress, and impair social functioning and work. OCD (Obsession Compulsion Disorder) often begins in childhood, adokscence or early adulthood.
Many people without OCD (Obsession Compulsion Disorder) have repertoire behaviors or distressing thoughts; however, these distressing patterns don’t typically disrupt daily life. People with OCD (Obsession Compulsion Disorder), thoughts are intrusive and persistent and behavior is rigid. It the behavior are not performing or completed Causes great distress, often attached a specific fear of dire consequences to self or loved ones. Some with OCD (Obsession Compulsion Disorder) Inspect or know their obsessional thoughts are not realistic, others many think they could be true people with OCD (Obsession Compulsion Disorder) have difficulties disengaging from the obsessive thoughts or stopping the compulsive actions, if they know their intrusive thoughts are not realistic.
OBSESSIONS:
Obsessions are persistent or recurrent thoughts, images or impulses that causes emotional distress such as fear, Anxiety or disgust people with OCD (Obsession Compulsion Disorder) recognized that there are a product mind that they are unreasonable excessive. However these intrusive thoughts which are caused by distress cannot be solved by logic or reasoning.
Examples of common obsessional thoughts:
- Fear of repatriating aggression
- Extreme worry about something is not completed
- Seemingly meaningless thoughts, sound music, image or words.
- Fear of contamination by environment or people.
- Religious often blasphemous, fear or thoughts.
- Extreme concern with symmetry, order or precision.
- Fear of discarding or losing something important.
- Disturbing sexual thoughts or images.
COMPULSIONS:
Compulsions are mental acts or repetitive behavior that a person feels to perform in response an obsession. The persons distress related to an obsession reduce temporarily and they are more likely to do the same in the future, compulsions are excessive responses that are directly related to an obsession or actions that our completely unrelated to the obsessions.
Examples or compulsion
- Repeated cleaning household objects.
- Ordering and arrangement things.
- Repeatedly checking locks, doors, switches appliance etc.
- Rotnuts related to number like repeating, counting avoiding certain.
- Ritualized or excessive hand washing, brushing teeth, toileting and showering.
- Constantly seeking approval or reassurance.