What Is OCD?
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD, is an extremely common disorder. People with OCD tend to have an obsession about a particular thought, and depending on that some behavior will be visible repeatedly. If you do a little research you'll see approximately 70 million people are suffering from OCD. But nothing to get worried about, with proper treatment the symptoms can be minimized.
The symptoms of OCD are categorized into 2 sections. Such as obsession symptoms and compulsion symptoms. These are mentioned below,
1. Obsession symptoms
- • Anxiety
- • Fear of dirty things
- • Never wants to make mistakes
- • Extremely perfectionist
- • Afraid of harming others and getting harmed by others, etc.
2. Compulsion symptoms
- • Washing hands or bathing repeatedly
- • Checking things over and over
- • Prefers to arrange things in their own way
- • Counts numbers or things again and again
- • Constantly asking for assurance from self and also from near and dear ones
Anxiety disorder is one of the oldest forms of mental health condition. If you look at the early 90s, the types of mental disorders were very limited. As time passes, people are experiencing unique symptoms and therefore different variants of disorder are getting visible. After the year of 2013, the APA (American Psychiatric Association) said OCD is an individual mental health condition with its symptoms. But before the period OCD used to be considered one of the types of anxiety disorder.
Normally there are only 3 causes of OCD, brain structure, genetics, and environment.
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1. Brain structure: When different areas of the brain get affected due to chemical imbalances, OCD can show its symptoms.
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2. Genetic: If parents or siblings have experienced OCD, then you’re most likely to suffer from this disorder.
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3. Environmental: Sometimes people experience sexual harassment, abuse, bullying, and other trauma, these can be a major cause of OCD. Aside from this, sometimes losing close people can also cause this mental disorder.
You can definitely know this, in fact in today's generation getting the answer is very easy due to Google. Not only this, when you’re suffering from OCD certain thoughts will keep frightening you, and you won’t be able to ignore them. Such conditions require medical help or counseling. Doing delay in treatment will increase the healing period.
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is the only therapy that can heal all the symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder. Besides this, there is certain medication you can take. But before that make sure you consult a reputed psychiatrist near you.
OCD is a long-term disorder and sometimes it is incurable, that's you should never stop taking therapies or medications unless it is suggested by professionals. Once you stop the treatment on your own, OCD can again return, and that is called episode. Top therapists at Clickpro will ensure that you never have any episodes again. Make sure you follow their words. To get your first consultation, start the booking process now.
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