Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Updated August 13, 2014th

• In short, obsessions "thinking too much" stuff.
• A constraint is an action that you do to stop the obsessive thinking.

The classic example is someone who washes his hands compulsively. This person may be obsessed with germs or dirt. To stop these thoughts, they wash their hands. When thoughts come back, wash your hands again. These actions can become compulsive ritual. For example, some people may believe with OCD that they switch the light goes exactly seven times to make sure it really.

OCD is currently being treated with antidepressants and cognitive behavioral therapy. Some studies indicate that the results are better when both techniques are used. The disease is not always understood in this way. Consider this excerpt from the 1970 edition of the Dictionary of Psychiatry and Hinsie Campbell:

"Psychoanalysis, obsessional neurosis is interpreted as a defense against / or aggressive and sexual, especially in relation to the Oedipus complex needs. De initial defense is the anal-sadistic level, but the pulse at this level are also intolerable and must be exorcised-off be - by reaction formation, isolation and cancellation ".

OCD is to be interpreted so used an intra psychic conflict, but the modern DSM-IV sees the state as a complex biological and psychological origins and defines it as follows:

"Obsessions or compulsion:

Obsessions as defined by:

• Recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses or images that are experienced at a particular time during the disturbance, as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress.
• The thoughts, impulses, or images are not simply excessive worries about real problems.
• The person tries to ignore or suppress such thoughts to, impulses or images, or to neutralize them with other thoughts or actions.
• The person recognizes that the obsessional thoughts, impulses, or images are a product of their own mind (not from the outside, as imposed in thought insertion).

Constraints are defined by:

• Repetitive behaviors (eg hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (eg, praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the person feels driven himself to perform in response to an obsession, or must according to some rules are applied rigidly.
• To prevent the behaviors or mental acts or to reduce or prevent emergency event or feared situation, but the objective of these behaviors or mental processes or are not neutralize in a realistic way with what they are designed to or to prevent or clearly excessive connected.

At some time during the illness, the person has recognized that the obsessions or compulsion are excessive or unreasonable. Note: This does not apply to children.

The obsessions or compulsion cause significant stress, are time consuming (take more than 1 hour per day) or significantly with the normal routine, occupational (or school) affect person or usual social activities or relationships.

If another Axis I disorder is present, the content of the obsessions or compulsion, it does not (eg, preoccupation with food in the presence of an eating disorder, hair pulling in the presence of trichotillomania, the limited concern about the emergence of the presence of dysmorphic disorder, anxiety medication in the presence of a drug addiction, which is a serious problem in the presence of the disease causes hypochondria fantasies sexual desire or ability in the presence of a paraphilia or guilty thoughts in the presence of depressive disorders).

The fault is not in the direct physiological effects of a substance (eg a drug, a medication) or a general medical condition. "

So far, it seems pretty simple. However, it is more complex. Now have some compulsive behaviors their own diagnosis. Draw names Trichotillomania is compulsive hair. To make things more interesting, there is another disorder as a milder version with a name similar to the OCD compulsion personality could be mistaken for, but longer OCD -. But that's not quite right.