What Is OCD

OCD is a disease in which it is very difficult to manage our life. Continous negative thoughts are running in mind again and again and it is very difficult to get rid off from ocd thoughts, ocd is divided into two parts which are obsessions and compulsions.






There are different levels to OCD. Some people have a very mild form, which might be a compulsion to have everything perfectly in its place. Or it might be more extreme forms, in which the person is very distraught most of the day, tormented by anxious thoughts, and performs elaborate rituals to help ease the anxiety.







If you think you might have an OCD, it’s important to understand that it’s highly treatable and you can cure it. Accept that it’s going to take some time. You can start to tackle compulsive behavior by slowly exposing yourself to the thing that causes the behavior while not engaging in the associated ritual.



In the case of handwashing, you might allow a bit of dirt to stay on your hands without running immediately to wash it off. This is called exposure therapy, and it works well for some compulsive behavior. When the person is less sensitized, the process becomes much easier because the anxious thoughts have less impact on the person’s psyche.



When there are persistent anxious thoughts, those thoughts can be of an extremely disturbing nature. Typical examples might be parents’ fears that they would harm their children in some manner (this is common for mothers who have recently given birth).



Thoughts like that would strike a bit of fear into a non-sensitized mind, but when the person is in a nervous, sensitized state, the disturbing thought hits with such severity that it rebounds hard and fast, causing great distress. I want to reassure you that the disturbing thoughts (regardless of the severity) are not something to worry about. They are results of an deeply imagination linked with sensitization and something you care forcibly about.. If you don't have a strong worry of it, the thought would never bother you.



Accept that this is not the sign of mental illness, but simply exhaustion. If you find your OCD too severe, seek the advice of a doctor and psychologist. Sometimes a short course of medication, in combination with therapy,can be the fastest route to get over what can feel like an insurmountable hurdle.



As a final point about OCD, don’t be too quick to stick a label on yourself. Believingin a label like OCD can make a problem more solidified than it really is. Lots of people go through what would be clinically termed as an obsessive compulsive disorder without every really knowing they had it. To them, it was just a period they went through.



Labels do help to communicate ideas more easily, but often these labels carry an unnecessary ominous weight. As mentioned, anxiety is almost always accompanied by a level of anxious, disturbing thoughts, so if you experience such thoughts, don’t feel you automatically have OCD. There are tools for ocd inside you check it and deal it in your style.