The essence behind the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder?

summary

When exposed to the situation causing obsessive-compulsive symptoms, patients will have a kind of uncomfortable feeling, such as "worry", "insecurity", "uneasiness", "always feel that something bad has happened", accompanied by physical discomfort, feeling chest tightness, panic, sweating, body tightness, etc., we call it "anxiety" emotional experience. The essence behind the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder? Let's talk about it

The essence behind the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Even if normal people pursue perfection, they often allow themselves to have some imperfections. Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder often require that everything must be under their own control, no criticism or negative evaluation is allowed, and that everything should be done best. For example, the obsessive-compulsive symptoms of adolescent patients are often manifested as the idea that "I should do everything right and not make a little mistake" when doing homework and exams. As a result, anxiety is generated, which leads to checking over and over again, resulting in the final delay in finishing the papers.

Obsessive compulsive disorder patients see things either this or that, black or white, all or nothing, no middle ground. For example, some patients are very demanding morally, "I am either pure or evil." they are not allowed to have a little selfish and ugly ideas. If they look at the opposite sex more, they think they are unfaithful to their spouse.

The association or words in the brain of normal people, OCD patients often overreact, causing anxiety and fear. For example, some patients taboo some numbers, such as "4" and "10". When they see the content related to these numbers, the automatic thinking is "I will have misfortune, I will die". They feel very nervous and do some confrontational behavior.

matters needing attention

For patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, cognitive psychotherapists will help them find their own thinking patterns, test whether these thinking patterns are reasonable, break the unreasonable thinking patterns, establish new thinking patterns, so as to make them recover.