OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD)

• Obsessions: These symptoms involve unwanted thoughts or ideas that disrupt your life and make it hard for you to focus on other things.
• Compulsions: These symptoms involve things you feel you have to do in a specific way in response to the obsessions. 

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder in which time people have recurring, unwanted thoughts, ideas or sensations (obsessions) that make them feel driven to do something repetitively (compulsions). Many people have focused thoughts or repeated behaviors.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a mental illness. People may experience obsessions, compulsions, or both, and they cause a lot of distress. Obsessions are unwanted and repetitive thoughts, urges, or images that don't go away. It is minor mental illness classified under neurosis, it could be very exhaustive due to repetitive actions that could lead to a total break down in the system.

EXAMPLES OF OCD

• Common compulsive behaviors
• Common obsessive thoughts 

Common compulsive behaviors in OCD include: Excessive double-checking of things, such as locks, appliances, and switches. Repeatedly checking in on loved ones to make sure they're safe, Counting, tapping, repeating certain words, or doing other senseless things to reduce anxiety. Spending a lot of time washing etc

Common obsessive thoughts in OCD include: Fear of losing control and harming yourself or others, Intrusive sexually explicit or violent thoughts and images, Excessive focus on religious or moral ideas, Fear of losing or not having things you might need.

It is believed that OCD likely is the result of a combination of neurobiological, genetic, behavioral, cognitive, and environmental factors that trigger the disorder in a specific individual at a particular point in time. People with severe OCD symptoms may have a second variation in the same gene.

The onset of OCD is typically gradual, but in some cases it may start suddenly. ... Because symptoms usually worsen with age, people may have difficulty remembering when OCD began, but can sometimes recall when they first noticed that the symptoms were disrupting their lives.

While people with OCD who also have another mental illness are more likely to die by suicide, 43% of people with OCD in the study who died by suicide did not have any other mental illness. This shows that people with OCD alone have a higher risk of suicide in their own right. 

Tips for Succeeding in Your OCD Treatment

• Always expect the unexpected. ...
• Be willing to accept risk. ...
• Never seek reassurance from yourself or others. ...
• Always try hard to agree with all obsessive thoughts — never analyze, question, or argue with them. .
• Don't waste time trying to prevent or not think your thoughts.

However going for therapy can also help in a large extent. So if you realize that you have tried to control and still can't get hold of it,kindly subscribe to therapy.

Talk about it,laugh about it,release the upright toxins so that you can live long