the OCD or obsessive compulsive disorder is a psychiatric disorder that begins to become increasingly common. Obsessions are usually ideas, images or mental impulses that attack again and again to these patients. They are unpleasant and even if they are perceived as thoughts, they fail to prevent them over and over again. Moreover, patients usually know that they are irrational and absurd, but if they are not carried out suffer from anxiety and obsession will hit them to abide by them.
The role of the compulsions that are suffering are to neutralize these fears of obsessive cause, though they have no relation to the cause. In extreme cases reach the rituals, in which the compulsion to no longer consists in check, for example, if the lock is closed correctly, but checks first a number of times the first, subsequently closed the second and they checked many others and they return to the first. these behaviors have longer hobbies ” when it comes to a TOC, but when they become ritual can cause serious problems in the daily life of these patients. These obsessions are usually classified in the following manera:
– contamination: the patient is afraid of catching a disease.
–pathological doubt and testing: continuously have to check that the locks, that children behave, have closed well etc.
–intrusive thoughts: there is no physical compulsion, i.e. There is no Mania ”, but continuously one image ” or thoughts attack
–order and symmetry: are the strangest because it is seen in the series Adrian Monk ” in which the detective need the numbers are pairs or pencils are the same size.
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