What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?

People with obsessive compulsive disorder often suffer from obsessive thoughts or compulsive behaviors. Obsessive thoughts will reoccur again and again, and patients often feel that they are excessive, unreasonable, and do not want them to appear, but they cannot control themselves. In order to offset or avoid the anxiety and uncertainty caused by these forced thoughts, patients will engage in repetitive behaviors or rituals to relieve the anxiety and uncertainty. These repeated behaviors are "compulsive behaviors."

Symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder

Obsessive thoughts: including repeated and persistent thoughts, images, and even impulsive thoughts, with content related to safety, right and wrong, perfect accuracy, symmetry; and morality, such as sex, violence, filth, religion, sin, etc. For example: having doubts about the correctness of your wording and needing to check or confirm it in your mind; repeatedly thinking about the logic or correctness of 1+1=2), forced recall (things you have experienced that you don’t need to recall originally, but you have to remember them) Reviewing memories in the mind), obsessive compulsion (when walking to a high place, there is an urge to jump down, fear of losing control and hurting others, etc.)...etc.

Compulsive behavior: The original intention is to offset ideological doubts, worries and emotional anxiety, but as a result, ritualized habits appear after constant adjustments. For example: forced checking (repeatedly checking whether the doors and windows are closed when going out), forced washing (repeated hand washing, bathing, etc.), forced actions (such as touching the seat with your hands before sitting on a chair); many ritualized behaviors are If interrupted, you will have to start over. In severe cases, habitual avoidance behavior will occur, resulting in disability in life.