OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” and its relation with “human behavior”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” and tries to gauge its effect on “the development to cognitive patterns among human beings”. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” and tries to describe the overall effect of “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” on “psychological dismantlement, faced by subjects diagnosed with this untreated phenomenon”.

Table of Contents

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder1

Defining the disease1

Signs and Symptoms2

Impact of obsessive compulsive disorder upon patient2

Treatment4

Future Directions4

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

For this paper, we will cover the main components, factors and symptoms that lead to obsessive compulsive disorder in a holistic context. Our main focus shall be on the obsessive compulsive disorder, which will help us understand and comprehend the whereabouts of how far and wide can an individual be affected with the disease that people face.

Defining the disease

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a disease or a phenomenon, where the patient or subject tends to worry or become anxious about petty issues and concerns regarding the daily routine in which individuals work. Repetitive feelings and emotions with sexual feelings, daily chores, and washing hands, even something as minor as opening or closing a door becomes rather strenuous for these individuals to work with it. To put in simpler terms, in the context of obsessive compulsive disorder, individuals tend to pose threats of the intrusive thoughts that they are experiencing. By intrusive thoughts, we imply thinking about situations and circumstances, which are fearsome, disturbing and hindering to an individual's wellbeing.

Generally, when the individual himself tends to work his way through experiencing these thoughts tend to work and keep them involved in their routine, just to avoid these thoughts occurring in their mind; however the phenomenon only lasts for a small span of time and that the practice itself gives in temporary relief to the patient. In extreme cases, if an individual does not perform the obsessive rituals, it would cause great anxiety to the patient, causing the individual to produce disruptive behaviour and attitude, causing problems for himself and the person.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has a point-prevalence of approximately 1%-2% across children and adults1-3 and a lifetime prevalence of approximately 2% 4 Obsessive-compulsive disorders is characterized by the presence of distressing and difficult to control thoughts, impulses, or images that evoke considerable distress (obsessions). Individuals with OCD tend to engage in overt or covert behaviors aimed to reduce or neutralize distress (compulsions). Problematically, this cycle of compulsion engagement in response to obsessional triggers creates a negative reinforcement loop (i.e., rituals reduce anxiety in the short-term), which maintains and/or exacerbates symptom severity.

Signs and Symptoms

Generally there are no symptoms that have been patented to show credentials or actual characteristics of a subject associated with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). However, one's own innate analysis and comprehension of their ...