Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-compulsive
disorder is a psychiatric anxiety disorder. Individuals with this disorder have
thoughts that are obsessive, distressing, intrusive, related with compulsions
to neutralize their obsessions.
Causes
Two
groups of researchers disagree on the cause of OCD, one believes it is a
psychological disorder, the other thinks OCD has a neurological origin. The
latter is believed by a majority. Although the causes of the disorder is not
yet ascertained, it is recently identified that OCD in some children is due to
an autoimmune response to Group A streptococcal infection.
Symptoms and Signs
Individuals
with OCD exhibit a variety of symptoms such as
ü Repeatedly washing the hands,
ü Fearing contamination through possible contact of saliva, blood,
tears, and other human secretions or excretions,
ü Needing to feel even on both sides of the body or feeling things
to be uneven and favouring the preferred side of the body.
ü These individuals knowingly comply with their irrational thought
and behaviours to avoid panic or dread in a certain situation.
Diagnosis
Mental
health professionals diagnose an individual as having an obsessive-compulsive
disorder when the person exhibits either obsessions or compulsions or both.
During episodes of OCD, obsessions are recurrent and persistent thoughts,
impulses, or images that cause distress or anxiety to an individual. These
obsessions are neutralized or suppressed by the individual through a thought or
an action. They behave or act irrationally in response to their obsessions.
Treatment
Options
for successful treatment are available. OCD patients are first treated with behavioural
therapy, cognitive therapy, symptomatic Homeopathy medications, or any of their
combination. Some aspects of their disorder may be managed by psychodynamic
psychotherapy,
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