Posted on 1st January, 2024 at 6:52:51 AM
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder or OCD is a mental illness that makes someone feel the uncontrollable urge to do specific actions. These intrusive urges are repetitive and can cause the patient to do the same unnecessary task repeatedly.
Obsessions can be very powerful and sometimes, it can be as simple and silly as washing dishes or hands several times frequently or checking the power button off electrical appliances repeatedly, or checking if the windows are locked. These can affect the life of the individual and the quality of daily lifestyle badly.
People with OCD feel compelled to do specific tasks or as we call them compulsions. These acts of compulsions provide temporary satisfaction to the anxiety that the patient is feeling at a particular moment.
What are obsessions?
Obsessions are not the same for all patients; for some, it could be devastating thoughts about the effects of natural calamities. At the same time, for another affected person, it could be the insecurities related to any relationships, or it could be memorizing and worrying about how many stairs the room has, how many switches the room has or how many bottles are in the fridge, like that. Obsessions cause anxiety in patients and force them to perform certain activities that provide relief.
There are several kinds of obsessions, some of the common ones are:
The personal and Professional life of any person affected by Obsessions can be destroyed. Severe mental distress created by these obsessive thoughts can be relieved temporarily by doing things repeatedly. However, they take up an inordinate amount of time and interfere with their everyday life.
What are compulsions?
Compulsions are some actions performed by patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder to provide temporary relief to their anxiety. These actions can be physical as well as mental & affected persons always try to justify their obsessions with these compulsions.
The most common forms of compulsive actions are:
