Obsessive-compulsive disorder?!
Question: I believe I have OCD, but I still have my doubts and am wondering what is it really. So can anyone answer these questions...
1.What is is?
2.What can I do to treat it?
3.How does one get OCD?
4.What are the symptoms for having this?
5.Does having this mean you have a genetic disorder or mean you are going insane?
6.Is there any medication to cease the OCD to none?
Please I would really appreciate it if you could answer them. You don't have to answer all of them just some atleast. THANKS!
Answers: I believe I have OCD, but I still have my doubts and am wondering what is it really. So can anyone answer these questions...
1.What is is?
2.What can I do to treat it?
3.How does one get OCD?
4.What are the symptoms for having this?
5.Does having this mean you have a genetic disorder or mean you are going insane?
6.Is there any medication to cease the OCD to none?
Please I would really appreciate it if you could answer them. You don't have to answer all of them just some atleast. THANKS!
i have had ocd since i was 7 and i'm 44 now. heres how i controlled my OCD, and it has caused me all sorts of problems in my life. i bacame an alcoholic for 14 years due to the anxiety from my OCD. i've been alcohol and drug free for 13 years now. don't drink or do drugs because this will only make your OCD worse. especially as you come down form substances because of the anxiety and stress that is associated with the comedown. coke and uppers will fuel your OCD severely and stay away from caffiene because this will also fuel your OCD. i am white knuckling it now as far as not taking any meds for my OCD, but i have learned to cut out stress in my life at a very good rate. don't get worked up about things. this will cause your stress and anxiety level to rise and severely impact your OCD symptoms. I should go on meds because when i took 100 milligrams of Luvox my OCD symptoms were reduced by 70%. i also learned to drink caffiene free teas at night and sometimes when i feel a bit anxious I will add cava cava or Valerian root to my tea. I will even at times take melatonin to help me relax at night. i even learned to practice ignoring my OCD when it demands that I perform rituals. It's hard to do at first, but when you ignore the obsessions by not giving in and performing these rituals, the OCD will greatly subside. over a few months time of ignoring rituals it will become easier and easier to not do this. Then it will become more of a maintainence for you to not do rituals. The strength of the OCD symptoms will now greatly reduce. I also learned to do rituals in my mind so I don't look funny to other people doing strange movements. you can learn to get a handle on this. as i got into my teens i was able to hide my symptoms from others by shifting focus of the rituals being performed in my mind. after you have shifted this focus then you realize that you can control, ignore and cut down on your symptoms. good luck.
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ocd is a really wild and wicked disorder, is it not? cut down on stress and work on ignoring your ocd, when you get the impulse to do a ritual like shake your hands or touch something, don't. and say to your ocd, "i know thats just you ocd and your not gonna disrupt my life" focus your mind elsewhere so you can shake the anxiety of not doing a ritual. it gets easier to ignore over short time.
Obsessions are defined by:
1. Recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress.
2. The thoughts, impulses, or images are not simply excessive worries about real-life problems.
3. The person attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, impulses, or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action.
4. The person recognizes that the obsessional thoughts, impulses, or images are a product of his or her own mind, and are not based in reality.
Compulsions are defined by:
1. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, or according to rules that must be applied rigidly.
2. The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these behaviors or mental acts either are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent or are clearly excessive.
"Usually, you get these urges to do the same thing over and over again until you think that it is perfect.
OCD is an anxiety disorder in which a person obsesses over something. They do certain actions or think certain thoughts to releive the anxiety that they are feeling. This is usually repeatative action, which someone touches certain things, washes hands, counts or just thinks things.
There is no cure for OCD, the best there is are mild ani-anxiety meds, and anti-depressants... like paxil.
You are born with OCD, although it usually surfaces noticably at adulesence.
Repeatative action, which someone touches certain things, washes hands, counts or just thinks things.
Genetic disorder, although I'm sure you can go mildly insane from this. Although, most likely you will just get depressed.
Again, you can treat it.... there is no cure... just be glad that the person who has OCD wasn't born before the mid-1950's... they used to do a lobodamy if you admitted to having it.
I have OCD, just not treated.
OCD is a compulsion to have things under your control, because an aspect of your life, or your WHOLE life is OUT OF control.
to treat it? see a therapist and/or a shrink for meds.
symptoms can include, but are not limited to: repetitive behavior such as washing your hands over & over, counting things, doing things in 2's, etc...
it does NOT mean you're going insane. it just means your life is out of control, and OCD is a way of feeling you have control over something. don't know if it's genetic.
there ARE meds...my friend is on one, but i can't recall the name...trazadone? i don't know if that's right. but you can google "OCD Meds" and see what it comes up with. i would say see a shrink to get meds for it. that's what i'm gonna do before the OCD gets worse.