Please help.......
2006-10-24 12:04:45 · 9 answers · asked by ♥Charming's Princess♥ 3 in Health ➔ Mental Health
.....explain it to me. I don't know what it means...
2006-10-24 12:05:05 · update #1
Just say for instance, you can walk out of the house and turn the lights off and close the door. Someone who has OCD, may have to turn the lights off and on a certain number of times or check the door a certain number of times. Most of it depends on what the person is obsessed over, cleanliness, safety, food etc. It is something they can not control and worry about all the time, it rules their lives and ruins it sometimes as well.
2006-10-24 12:10:05 · answer #1 · answered by cfoxwell99 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boy, you don't ask for much do you? OCD is another disorder that lives on the continuum. From mild to severe. Some work with it very well, being compulsive can appear to be methodical behavior which is satisfying to an employer. However, the most serious cases lose their jobs, their families, their friends. There are so many examples that I don't have room here to list them. We have the household compulsives, cleaning all the time. Then we move into the household compulsives that clean and reclean and clean again. They lock their doors and unlock them and relock them a certain amount of times. Thus counting is part of the compulsion. ODC folks will count ceiling or floor tiles. Count how many peas are on their plate. How many bites of potatoes. We don't know what causes it but control is an issue (as is bulimia, and anorexia). It's not cured-but there are meds that work now. Don't confuse this with the 1950's housewife that kept her home **** and span-that was her job as a wife. Some people can spend hours on one thing, like straightening the fringe on a carpet. (if it were me I'd get rid of the carpet, but they don't think that way) I hope this helps. I find it interesting that they **** out the word **** in **** and span a cleaning product.
2016-05-22 11:29:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having to switch off a light switch exactly 14 times before you can leave a room. Always washing your face in a clockwise direction 5 times. Touching the door frame of every room as you leave it. Doing things repeatitiously for no reason other than you have to. Rituals that make no sense. You are obsessed with something to the point that you must (compulsory)have to do it.
2006-10-24 12:10:29 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's when you can't stop yourself from behaving in a certain way. A good example would be compulsively answering questions on Yahoo! Answers until you reach your limit. Joke. Some people wash their hands 15 times a day. There was recently a show on MTV about people who suffered from OCD. It looked horrible -- I hope you don't have it.
2006-10-24 12:55:05 · answer #4 · answered by shrink 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obsessive Cumpulsivness is a disorder where they constantly see things over and over again without wanting to see them, it is commenly mixed up with compulsivness, which is when you have to do a series of things to do something, like tapping on something 3 times before moving something, or streightening things out, like the show Monk. Hope this clears things up.
2006-10-24 12:29:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
everything has to be just so, you are a clean freak and every 5 minutes you are re-cleaning what you just cleaned and you do it compulsively. basically what ever you doing is not going to be the way you want it so you keep repeating yourself.
2006-10-24 12:11:03 · answer #6 · answered by duane b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
okay, heres an example
~you always have to wash your hands, because you are affraid that you got germs or something bad on it, so you wash your hands all the time or when ever you touch something or feel dirty
2006-10-24 12:08:25 · answer #7 · answered by hotty 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.ocfoundation.org/
This website has tons of info.
2006-10-24 12:08:00 · answer #8 · answered by Rachel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-24 12:12:51 · answer #9 · answered by SuperSoldierGIJOE 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋