Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

OCD is a thought process, Cognitive and Perception issue when someone suffer with OCD, the person feels urges to perform certain routines /acts /rituals as a compulsion repeatedly or has certain uncontrollable thoughts or urges. while suffering with OCD person is unable to control either the thoughts or compulsions for more than a short period of time.

SYMPTOMS RELATED WITH OBSESSIONS IN OCD

Early Sign and Symptoms:
Common symptoms are Impulsivity, Compulsive repetitive behavior,
sometime meaningless repetition of own words, social isolation, Agitation, feeling persistent anxiety, Panic Attack, feeling Guilty, Hyper vigilance about body functioning, nightmares, certain thought which might create perspiration randomly, repeated intrusive thoughts, other Symptoms may include:

1· The fear of falling ill due to the contamination of germs and bacteria.
2. Fear of losing control
3· Paying extreme attention to symmetry, order
4· Apprehensive approach in day-to-day life like expecting negative
outcome
5· Fear of harming self or someone closes one especially family member
6. Violent and aggressive intrusive thoughts, visuals & images
7· Having excessive beliefs about morality like things must be or should be by them self.
8. Doubt about whether they have lock properly like gate lock, turn off tap, light switches, gas nob, car lock, almirah lock, another electronic device like laptop or mobile
9. feeling losing valuable article like gold, mobile, keys, money etc.
10. Doubting what if they have posted inappropriate, personal information on social media.
11. Intrusive thoughts related with sexual thought, images, visual, doing sexual activity with God or someone within family or close one,

12. Trying to do things or task in perfect & best possible way
13. Persistent unclear suspicion of something bad will happen
14. Hyper vigilant about their own bodily function like pulse rate, heart rate, swallowing, sensation in leg, hand, eye, stomach, shoulder and other body movement.
15. Having the doubt whether they have shut down electronic device laptop, mobile, email properly or not
16. Intrusive thought related with their own gender whether they are male or female
17. Doubt whether they are gay or bisexual or lesbian or about their sexual preference.
18. Doubting about their own photo and video someone will take and post on internet for inappropriate use and their name will defame.
19. Mistrust with partner like they will leave them or have doubt their
partner will have other relationship.
20. Having the doubt their learn skill they will loose like writing skill,
painting, sports related skills, whether good study habits will remain with them or not or they will forget.
21. Doubt related with own existence with mindset like why they are
living & why people are living, what is need to live. related with existence.
22. Having the doubt whether God exist in universe.


Symptoms Related with Compulsion in OCD
Early Sign of Compulsion:
1. Doing rigorous cleaning of hand, legs, face, arms. Cleaning household material, person things repeatedly & frequent. complain about others is not maintaining cleaning & forcing others for cleaning.
2. Trying to do continuous worship in different way throughout the day more than 3 hours.
3. Trying to check their electronic device if something they might have post by mistake.
4. Trying to seek reassurance from family members about their own safety and others in family members safety related questions repeatedly and not getting satisfy even after dozens of reassurances from care giver.

5. Trying to maintain high level of perfection, trying to do at best else feel restless.

6. Try to validate if their intrusive thought is happening or not from different sources.
7. Trying to arrange things multiple times and not getting satisfy.
8. Trying to check different locked item multiple time and not getting satisfaction and trying to validate from self and others and remain bother out of those compulsion.
9. Doing certain act and ritual in unique way regardless of need
10. Counting numbers, things, floor tiles, houses number, and something which other might not need to do or following certain pattern but even after doing feeling restless.
11. Avoiding places, situations, people, group and certain social media and television channel and episode.

Can OCD Be Cured?
OCD is a perception issue related to thought processing and cognitive issues. So, it is very important to prioritize and take your OCD sufferer to a therapist/Psychologist who can help in cognitive restructuring.  Psychological Intervention is the first choice of treatment instead of visiting a psychiatrist or doctor. Medicine does not 100 % OCD cure. Therapies intervention is a permanent solution and cure. Getting therapy sessions as a treatment will help to prevent further worsening impact of OCD like disrupting activities, poor daily routine and overall quality of life. OCD is completely curable and recoverable with dedicated effort by your client, therapist and family members with strategic planning and execution of therapy implementation.

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