Mental Health: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

MENTAL HEALTH: OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER
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How OCD affects people and why it happens
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder which is made up of two parts
which are obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions are so frightening and horrible such that
people are afraid of sharing them with others. They disrupt an individual from thinking about
other useful things which can be constructive in their life, and they make a person anxious1. On
the other hand, compulsions are repetitive activities that are person feels like doing all the time.
Compulsion causes actions like repeatedly feeling like checking if the door is closed2. People
suffering from this infection always think they are lazy and they try all they can to perform
specific behaviors which sometimes can be very harmful to their health. Isolation is another
effect of OCD in which a person isolates themselves from relationships. This is because they
spent a lot of their time performing compulsive behaviors makes them exhausted making it
challenging to interact with others and thus leading a boring loneliness life. OCD disorder
happens because of dysfunctional beliefs and interpretations. The disorder can also occur
because of personal experiences. People who had a painful childhood and suffered from trauma
are most likely to be affected by this disorder.
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1 McElroy, Susan L., Katharine A. Phillips, and Jr PE Keck. "Obsessive compulsive spectrum disorder." The
Journal of clinical psychiatry 55 (1994): 33-51.
2Pediatric, O. C. D. "Cognitive-behavior therapy, sertraline, and their combination for children and
adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder: the Pediatric OCD Treatment Study (POTS) randomized
controlled trial." Jama 292, no. 16 (2004): 1969.