What
is obsession?
Obsessions are recurring feelings of hopelessness, visuals, or desires that trigger fear and are
difficult to overcome, in fact attempting to stop them causes more pain. Know
these things, like other thoughts and impulses, come from your own mind, but
they are difficult to control. The thoughts usually revolve around something
important such as health, pollution, harm, sexuality, relationships,
spirituality, or ethics. Or you may simply have the uneasy feeling that
something is wrong. Consult with the best Counsellor
near me at TalktoAngel for
more information.
What
is compulsion?
Compulsion is successive behavior
or habits that one’s feels it necessary to perform yet when you know they are
inappropriate or make no sense. Compulsions are frequently associated with
obsessive thoughts. They are someone’s brain’s attempt to solve or cope with the anxiety that these obsessions cause.
About Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
is characterized by persistent unwanted thoughts (passions) and a strong desire
to perform mental or physical actions (driven to do something repetitively)
that provide temporary relief from these thoughts. It is normal to have a few
obsession thoughts or minor compulsions, but the thoughts and behaviors of OCD
can be deeply distressing, time-consuming, and disruptive to your life.
Symptoms and Signs Of trouble
symptoms
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
symptoms can come and go. They typically worsen when someone is stressed and
improves when you are relaxed and happy. Fatigue can also trigger or become
a worse obsessive-compulsive disorder by making you more helpless and less able
to cope. Obsessions and compulsions are the classic features of OCD. These differ from person to person, but the following are common
themes:
- Particles and soil pollution, which
causes too much washing and avoids unnecessary dirt doubt, which leads to
checking the things that have been done properly - such as locks being locked and
stoves being turned off, a sense that things just aren’t right or not, leading
behaviors such as adjusting angles of objects, lining things up, or
repeating an action until things feel right. To reduce fears, avoid lines such
as cracks in the sidewalk or lines on the tiles. - Something bad will happen in your
mind unusual or repulsive thoughts, feelings, or images – these may be about
religion, sex, violence, or suicide and may raise unrealistic fears about your
safety or the safety of your family or friends. - Obsessions and compulsions are as
follows: more than just excessive concern about real-life issues, they are
severe enough to be time-consuming, taking more than an hour per day and
causing significant distress. Meaningful enough to even disrupt daily
activities and relationships.
obsessive-compulsive disorder
Psychological therapy for OCD is typically a form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that also
doing and anxiety management, this usually involves: working with a therapist to
break down problems into discrete components, such as thoughts, physical
feelings, and actions; encouraging one to face fears and obsessive thoughts
without making them with compulsive behaviors; someone begins with the
situations that cause the least anxiety before progressing to more difficult
thoughts. Feel free to seek consultation with the best Psychologist near me at TalktoAngel.
Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
1. Dysmorphic Disorder of the Body
Body dysmorphic disorder is classified
as a sub-type of OCD in the DSM-5. Body dysmorphic disorder causes affected
adolescents to see flaws in their physical appearance. Body dysmorphic disorder
symptoms are either not visible or only slightly visible to others. A child or
adolescent with body dysmorphic disorder may check the mirror frequently, groom
excessively, pick at their skin, and/or seek reassurance. Furthermore, the
child may compare his or her appearance to that of others. The concerns of a
person suffering from body dysmorphic disorder are not based on weight or body
fat, as they are in people suffering from eating disorders.
2. Hoarding syndrome
Persistent difficulty discarding or
parting with possessions, regardless of their monetary value, the perceived
need to save the items; and the distress associated with throwing them away.
Individuals suffering from hoarding
disorder accumulate and keep so many items that they clog their living space
and severely limit their ability to use the items they keep.
Hoarding disorder manifests symptoms
between the ages of 11 and 15, begins to interfere with life around the
mid-20s, and causes clinically significant impairment by the mid-30s; it
appears to worsen as the affected person ages and is frequently chronic.
3. Trichotillomania
It is characterized by hair pulling
from one or more body parts, including the scalp. Hair can be pulled from any
part of the body, but it is most generally started pulling from the scalp,
brows, or eyelashes, and less commonly from other parts of the body such as the
axillaries e.g. underarms, facial, pubic, and genital areas. These locations may
shift over time, and the individual may pull hair throughout the day or for
extended periods within a single day. Hair pulling can last for years. Hair
loss is required to diagnose trichotillomania, but some young people will pull
individual hairs throughout an area, making hair loss less noticeable.
Individuals may also conceal hair loss by wearing hats or wigs.
4. Excoriation
It is also called dermatillomania. Picking at one’s own skin, including healthy skin and pimples, is a
sign of excoriation. Individuals suffering from excoriation disorder pick up
actual and perceived skin flaws, causing physical harm. Most people use their
fingernails, but they may also use pins, as well as a rub or squeeze the skin.
The person will frequently seek out a scab or other area to pick up, then examine,
play with, or mouth the removed skin or scab. Picking can be focused, with
preceding anxiety or tension and subsequent relief, or it can be automatic and
unconscious. The majority of people engage in both focused and automatic
picking.
The most common Symptoms of Excoriation:
- Recurrent obsessing thoughts of skin picking that are resulting
in skin lesions. - Repeated attempts to stop
skin-picking behavior. - Significant distress or impairment
caused by the symptoms. - not caused by any
substance, medical, or dermatological condition. - Not on account of another
psychiatric disorder.
If you consider that you
are exhibiting symptoms of Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, you may consult Best Clinical Psychologist in India, at
the multiplication clinic Psychowellness Center, at Dwarka,
Jankpuri, Gurgaon, Vasant Vihar, Faridabad, and Delhi NCR.
Contributed
by: Dr (Prof) R K Suri and Ms. Aditi Bhardwaj