Guide to Psychological Counseling in Guangzhou
What is the most painful thing in the world?
Incurable disease?
War?
Part never to meet again?
It is a war between oneself and oneself, a war between oneself and another "self" - obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Lina, a 25-year-old girl, is very beautiful, loves to wear beautiful clothes, loves makeup, wants to be a beautiful woman, wants to be a goddess.
Like many girls, she likes to go shopping, but such a girl's heart has pain that ordinary people cannot understand. When she dressed up in Peugeot but suddenly stopped and jumped left and right in the crowd——— in order not to step on the lattice line on the ground, everyone around looked at her in amazement.
She would walk back and forth in the same position for ten minutes, just to make sure she wasn't stepping on the grid. Whether at home or on the road, even if everyone looks at her, even if she knows that she looks nervous but she can't control herself.
She would often think of some terrible things in her head, maybe things were different but felt the same. She would tell herself in her mind that it would bring her bad, and she would be afraid to contradict herself, even in her mind. Then there was the act of self-harm - pulling his own hair, not knowing since which day it became a beating of himself.
Whether at home or in the middle of the city, she often just stands and beats herself, even if she knows that hitting herself has nothing to do with anything, but only this can make her comfortable.
She often inhaled until she couldn't suck and then spit it out, because she felt that this would sort out her different voices in her head, the voices of argumentation, in order to isolate her relationship with those bad things.
She looked up some information on the Internet and knew that she had obsessive-compulsive disorder. Because of the stress brought about by obsessive-compulsive disorder, she will break out in cold sweats, palpitations, breathlessness, and even feel that her soul has been stripped away, giving birth to a fear of separating from the world.
Sometimes when she repeats these movements, she gets scared and tells herself: Can't do this, you're going crazy! But she couldn't control herself.
In Lina's opinion, just washing your hands a few more times, things must be put together, etc. is not obsessive-compulsive disorder at all. How nice it would be if it were just that. But there is nothing more painful than fighting against yourself.
She felt that ordinary people simply could not understand the pain in the hearts of people like her! Sometimes she sees people on Weibo making jokes about OCD and writing paragraphs, and she will be very angry!
She can't wait to find psychological counseling, hoping to get a cure and get out of this pain.
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Analysis of Guangzhou Psychological Counseling
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a kind of anxiety disorder, with obsessive thinking and compulsive behavior as the main clinical manifestations, which is characterized by the coexistence of conscious compulsion and anti-compulsion, and some meaningless, even against their own will, thoughts or impulses repeatedly invade the patient's daily life.
Of all the neuroses, obsessive-compulsive disorder is the most painful one. The pain lies in the fact that although patients experience that these thoughts or impulses come from themselves, they resist it vigorously, but they are never able to control it, and the strong conflict between the two makes them feel great anxiety and pain, affecting study and work, interpersonal communication and even life.
Therefore, the desire for treatment of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder is generally very strong, and it is often difficult for ordinary people to experience the pain of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
A large number of studies have shown that the etiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder is related to genetic factors, personality characteristics, adverse events, stress factors, etc., especially closely related to the personality characteristics of patients, such as: excessive pursuit of perfection, hesitation, caution, stubbornness, insecurity, more sensitive, suspicious, often like to think or pay attention to negative events and so on.
People with the following personality traits are prone to OCD:
1. Pursue 100% certainty
The pursuit of 100% certainty is a distinctly obsessive-compulsive personality.
Events in life (especially those that will come or have not yet happened) are usually uncertain. The average person can accept this uncertainty. However, obsessive-compulsive personality is the pursuit of absolute certainty, but this is an impossible goal, so obsessive-compulsive people will repeatedly doubt the correctness of their words and actions.
Of course, ordinary people will also have doubts in life, such as doubts about closing the car door after getting out of the car?
However, even if the average person has no way to verify it, he will not be bitter by this suspicion.
And obsessive doubt is different - what kind of doubt is that? It is to doubt what they have done well. Obviously it is done, but I feel that I am not 100% sure, and I am still not at ease.
2. Perfectionism
Obsessive-compulsive disorder stems from not accepting the true self.
People with OCD strive for perfection, are very demanding of themselves, and demand that they not do useless things. If you do something meaningless in your life, you will feel like you are wasting your life and not perfect, so you will be miserable.
For example, some patients always have some antonyms in their minds, such as thinking of "peace" and immediately thinking of "war"; Seeing that this item is white, I immediately think of black; or think of death when you see 4; When I think of getting sick, I immediately think of bacteria, etc. They think it's meaningless, but they can't help but think like that, which is very painful.
In fact, what people think and think is actually uncontrollable. But obsessive-compulsive people are very demanding of themselves, they demand that they do "think what they should think, and don't want to think what they shouldn't", and this is an impossible goal. People with OCD struggle with their own thinking in this way, making themselves miserable. When he learns to accept his imperfections, live in the moment with his true self, he will find a relaxed and free self.
3. Morality and taboos
There are many instinctive impulses in human nature, such as sex and aggression.
The average person will allow himself to have thoughts that are not moral, but will control himself without taking action, and will not violate the law and moral condemnation. But people with OCD not only do not allow themselves to have those behaviors, but also those thoughts, otherwise they will blame themselves.
Obsessive impulses are usually not put into action. The obsessive-compulsive symptom of a 14-year-old patient was repeated checks of the faucet switch.
Through psychological counseling, it was found that the patient had angry feelings towards his parents. By means of replacement, the patient will turn on the faucet to symbolize the drowning parent, and then counteract his guilt by repeating the examination to determine that the faucet is closed.
He himself considers his symptoms "stupid and ridiculous" because he does not allow himself to have angry and hostile thoughts towards his parents.
4. Thinking omnipotently
In obsessive-compulsive disorder, the existence of the omnipotence of the mind (thinking as if what happened) is most obvious.
People with OCD are depressed by a deep sense of guilt (this guilt is so deep that it is usually only found in murderous executioners), it arises from the strong desire and thought of the subconscious to often hope for the early death of others, it is only a subconscious thought, not an intentional action, but the patient takes the thought as a fact, so it is extremely painful.
In such patients, the universal mind plays an infinitely important role.
People with OCD are afraid to express any evil wishes, as if expressing them will eventually lead to their fulfillment, convinced that thoughts alone can change the external world; And what is taboo is precisely the most instinctive desire of human beings.
The specific reason requires the consultant to understand the patient's situation in detail before making professional analysis and judgment.
As of 2012, the medical community believes that patients with mild OCD can only use psychotherapy, such as Morita therapy, behavioral therapy, hypnotherapy, psychoanalytic therapy, etc.
Patients with severe OCD who use a combination of interpretive psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy can achieve better results.