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Mental health: OCD

posted May 18, 2009 - 6:49pm
Mental health: OCD

OCD is called obsessive compulsive disorder. This disorder was recognized a couple of years back. It's a psychological disorder. There're a percentage of the population who has this disorder in accompanied with other disorder. People with OCD can get medical treatment and it's not hard to treat them. They're less severe than other mental illness. They can benefit from psychological counseling and medication. There're different stages of OCD and some are more severe than other. Some OCD patients will also have other psychological disorder that accompanied OCD which can worsen their disease.

For example, an OCD patient can also be a patient that was born with birth defects or mental slowness. One of their current problems also worsen their OCD problems like their inability to control their emotions. OCD patients can have a lack of self control and that's why they must repeat doing things and they're fearful of certain things. They have a low tolerance for certain things and they lack patience. Some OCD patients can become violent too if they have other disorder that worsen their current disease.

What do OCD patients do? They are obsess with certainn things in their lives. They could be obsess with cleaning or organizing. An OCD patient can go into psychosis if they see a dish not washed. They can become violent if they don't have everything in order. They can go into other people's things and clean up other people's room and closet. They feel good after they have everything in place. They're afraid of certain things like dirt, bacteria, mess and more. It can varies with all patients. It's very important that they obtain medical treatment and counseling early on so that they have a better life or they don't bother other people. It could be difficult to live with an OCD person since they may become violent if you created a mess or if you're not cleaning up.



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OCD

My top kid in my HS class has OCD

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