Psychological facts on OCD

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

It is a common, chronic and long-term disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, recurring thoughts (obsessions) and/or behaviors (compulsions) that he or she has repeated urges to repeat.
There are some psychological facts about OCD that is the obsessive compulsive disorder .

1. According to the World Health Organization, anxiety disorders, like OCD, are more prevalent in developed countries than in developing countries.
2. People with family members who suffer from OCD might be predisposed to the illness. Also, as an anxiety disorder, experts believe that OCD may also be linked to levels of serotonin in the brain, stress or illness may trigger its symptoms.
3. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and medication are two ways of treating OCD.
4. Perfectionism – a need to get everything to feel right during OCD personality traits.
5. An obsessive-compulsive might check their doors and windows 50 to 100 times when an obsession with security gets stuck in their head. Obsessive-compulsives are completely powerless to control their compulsions.
6. Obsessive-compulsives are tortured by these thoughts, which they find profoundly disgusting and distressing.
7. OCD sufferers are driven to carry out complex rituals known as compulsions, which are triggered by obsessions.
8. Some OCD sufferers are so afraid of being misunderstood by others that they become very skilful at hiding their symptoms, and can appear entirely normal. In other cases, symptoms can be so severe that sufferers receive disability compensation.
9. Responsibility – an exaggerated sense of responsibility for their actions during OCD personality traits.
10. OCD is treatable, and people who suffer from it can live a normal life.
11. In the U.S. 1 in 40 adults and 1 in 100 children face OCD.
12. OLD is a one type of OCD.Obsessive love disorder” (OLD) refers to a condition where you become obsessed with one person you think you may be in love with. You might feel the need to protect your loved ones obsessively, or even become controlling of them as if they were a possession.
13. People who suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are plagued by intrusive thoughts that they can’t banish from their mind, no matter how hard they try.
14. The obsessions experienced by OCD sufferers can be grouped along with several common themes like Common obsessions, Common compulsions etc.
15. OCD symptoms are divided between obsessions: recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or impulses, and compulsions: repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession.
16. Many of us carry out daily rituals consisting of a series of tasks that we might otherwise forget. For example, checking that all the doors and windows are locked before we go to bed at night is a routine that guards against burglary. But in OCD, these rituals spiral out of control.
17. Some Common compulsions that includes,1)Cleaning – repeatedly washing hands or wiping household surfaces for hours on end.2)Checking – repeatedly questioning whether light switches are turned off, or appliances are unplugged etc.
18. OCD may affect men and women equally.
19. Neuroticism – anxious and keen to avoid dangerous situations during OCD personality traits.
20. Daniel Radcliffe, Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Megan Fox and Justin Timberlake are all celebrities who have lived with OCD.
21. OCD will make your thoughts more towards to depression, Anxiety and sorrowness.It will make your personality more complex than normal human being.
22. Symptoms of OCD may include: an overwhelming attraction to one person’s obsessive thoughts feeling the need to “protect” the person you’re in love with,possessive thoughts & actions,extreme jealousy over other interpersonal interactions and low self-esteem. Sometimes they physically harm themselves or that person also which turns into crime and mental illness.
23. Most OCD compulsions are logically related to their obsession. For instance, sufferers carry out cleaning rituals in order to rid themselves of contaminants.
24. The difference between healthy and obsessive love is that with the latter, those feelings of infatuation become extreme, expanding to the point of becoming obsessions. Obsessive love and jealousy that is delusional is a symptom of mental-health problems and is a symptom that occurs in about 0.1% of adults.
25. Common obsessions include fears of contamination by germs, dirt or chemicals,flooding the house, causing a fire, or being burgled .
26. Indecisiveness – a tendency to take time to make decisions during OCD personality traits.
27. On average, people are diagnosed with OCD when they are 19-years-old.
28. The difference between OCD in adults and in children is that children may not be able to realize the reason for their behavior or thoughts (or that their behaviors or thoughts are unusual).
29. Researchers have found that people with OCD often score very highly for particular personality traits. These include: Neuroticism, Impulsivity, Responsibility, Indecisiveness and Perfectionism.
30. Impulsive – a tendency to engage in activities that bring instant gratification during OCD personality traits.
31. Intrusive thoughts, or obsessions, as psychologists call them, affect everyone. But some people can’t get rid of them as easily as the rest of us.
32. Perfectionism is one of the most common personality traits in OCD. Indeed, some researchers have described obsessive-compulsives as the ultimate perfectionists.