Have you ever had such an experience in life, obviously just locked the door, but after going downstairs, you always feel that you did not lock the door, and you have to run up again to confirm it.
Obviously, I have brought everything well, but I always feel that I have forgotten something, and I have to confirm it repeatedly. Experiences like these, even if you don't have them yourself, the people around you must have them.
In fact, in psychology, this phenomenon is called "obsession", which is a pathological manifestation.
"Obsessive-compulsive disorder" is not uncommon in daily life, when most people are more or less a little, but the mechanical repetition of meaningless behavior, will only aggravate the internal consumption of individual energy and inner anxiety, over time, naturally will also affect the normal life of individuals.
When "obsessive-compulsive disorder" generalizes into daily life and becomes more and more severe, individuals feel pain and feel that they are suffering every minute and every second.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is actually a mild mental illness, which belongs to a kind of anxiety disorder, which is a mental disorder with compulsive behavior and obsessive-compulsive thinking as the main manifestations.
This type of mental disorder disease often manifests as the coexistence of compulsion and anti-compulsion, and people with obsessive-compulsive disorder often feel that their hearts are extremely contradictory, knowing that they are meaningless to do so, but they will still be pulled by an invisible force in their hearts and repeat those unintentional actions.
In recent years, people's life pressure gradually increased, according to psychologists statistics show that the prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder and other mental illnesses caused by obsessive-compulsive disorder has risen sharply, in the population with obsessive-compulsive disorder, there are 1 to 2 percentage points of patients, will suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder for a lifetime, and most of the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder, mostly before the age of 25.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder has the following characteristics: First, this obsessive-compulsive thinking comes from the patient's subjective consciousness, not from external stimuli.
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Second, the sick person will have a very serious psychological contradiction, on the one hand, want to resist, and on the other hand, can not resist the repetition of useless behavior. In the end, this kind of thinking and impulse will last a long time, and over time it will bring serious negative emotions to people.
The process of the formation of obsessive-compulsive disorder
In general, the process of forming obsessive-compulsive disorder is usually divided into three stages:
Cumulative anxiety phases
The intrusive thought phase
Reinforcement phase
The first stage, the stage of accumulating anxiety, is easier to understand, and when some individuals have obsessive-compulsive thinking, it will always be accompanied by some anxious states.
This negative emotional experience reinforces the onset and development of obsessive-compulsive disorder. When individuals experience more and more anxiety in their hearts, they will naturally take some ways to alleviate their own anxiety.
When the individual's inner anxious experience accumulates to a certain extent, it enters the second stage, the stage of intrusive thoughts.
The concept of intrusive thoughts refers to some ideas and concepts that appear in the individual, which have nothing to do with the real scene, and most of them suddenly break into the individual's mind.
Under this premise, the individual's anxiety is groundless, and then the human self-defense mechanism will be activated, giving a suitable reason for all kinds of unexplained anxiety.
Simply put, you will find a reasonable outlet for your anxiety. But you know that your anxiety is meaningless, and then the contradiction in your heart arises.
And this contradiction will push you to the third stage, the strengthening stage.
The contradictions in your heart are actually leading you to pay attention to and value this problem yourself, and when you spend more time and energy on this contradiction, the intensity of your obsessive-compulsive disorder will be enhanced.
Because, when the individual repeatedly thinks and struggles with a problem, the problem is difficult to be put down, which will aggravate the anxiety in the individual's heart, and even generalize to all aspects of life.
This process of inner self-contradiction will lead to the patient being in torment and pain for a long time, pulling himself with two voices in the heart, one voice denies his meaningless thoughts, and the other voice is looking for a suitable reason for his anxiety, repeating the cycle and falling into a vicious circle.
About the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Cognitive therapy and Morita therapy are currently recognized as the best treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Cognitive therapy usually treats obsessive-compulsive disorder through mind blocking and exposure response prevention.
The so-called thinking blocking is to rely on external factors to block the obsessive thinking in the individual's heart, so that the patient can transfer the thinking to other things, interrupting the vicious circle.
Exposure response prevention is a kind of desensitization training, so that patients know that even if they do not do those repetitive behaviors, it will not bring bad consequences, and over time, help patients stop repeated behaviors.
After treatment, the patient's obsessive-compulsive thinking and compulsive behavior will be improved, but this mental disorder disease is best treated with the help of a professional doctor.
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