Symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder

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Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) belongs to a type of anxiety disorder. It is a group of neuropsychiatric diseases with forced thinking and forced behavior as the main clinical manifestations. It is characterized by the coexistence of conscious compulsion and anti compulsion, and some meaningless, even against their own will ideas or impulses repeatedly invade the daily life of patients. Although patients experience that these thoughts or impulses come from themselves and resist them, they can't control them all the time. The strong conflict between them makes them feel great anxiety and pain, and affects their study, work, interpersonal communication and even daily life. Symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder

Compulsive thinking can be divided into compulsive concept, compulsive emotion and compulsive intention. There are various contents, such as repeatedly doubting whether the doors and windows are closed tightly, whether you will get sick when you encounter dirty things, why the sun rises in the East and sets in the west, and the impulse to jump down when you stand on the balcony.

Compulsive behavior is often an action that has to be taken in order to reduce the anxiety caused by compulsive thinking. The patient knows it is unreasonable, but has to do it. For example, if the patient doubts whether the doors and windows are closed tightly, they will check the doors and windows repeatedly to ensure safety; Patients who are afraid of getting sick will wash their hands repeatedly to keep clean.

Some patients with prolonged course of disease often repeat some actions and form a certain procedure over time. For example, when washing their hands, they must start to wash from the fingertips and continuously wash to the wrists. If the order is reversed or the middle is interrupted, they have to start to wash again. Therefore, they often spend a lot of time and suffer.

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As a kind of psychological disease, the mechanism of obsessive-compulsive disorder is very complex. Patients with similar symptoms may have different psychological mechanisms. In psychotherapy, by establishing a good doctor-patient relationship with patients, therapists listen to patients, help them find and analyze inner conflicts, promote patients to solve problems, increase their ability to adapt to the environment, and reshape their sound personality.