{"id":5054,"date":"2024-04-11T11:40:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T06:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ananthjeevan.in\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2024-04-11T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T06:10:13","slug":"obsessive-compulsive-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ananthjeevan.in\/te\/learn-more\/obsessive-compulsive-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsessive Compulsive Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When we meet someone who is keen on keeping their things organized and clean, we jokingly say, \u201cYou\u2019re OCD.\u201d However, there is a huge difference between being a neat freak and having OCD. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is defined as having obsessive thoughts and compulsive behavior. The person makes an attempt to neutralize the obsessions by engaging in compulsive behavior. Obsessions are recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, images, or impulses that are experienced as disturbances, unwanted, or inappropriate. Compulsive behavior is the repetitive behavior of checking, counting, cleaning, repeating, ordering, and arranging to reduce distress or prevent any dreaded event or situation from occurring. The symptoms cause clinically significant impairment and distress in their social, occupational, and other areas of functioning.<\/p>\n

The mild to extreme level of disturbances caused by OCD, for example, cleaning and washing rituals for 15\u201320 minutes to the extreme behavior of washing hands for more than an hour to a point where the hands start to bleed. Checking ritual: it is common for us to check things before we leave our house, from the mild behavior of checking everything three to four times to the extreme of going back to the house from a half-way journey just to check if the lights are off and the doors are locked.<\/p>\n

OCD obsessions are:<\/strong><\/h5>\n