is there a variety of ocd called people obsession?

Question

i am wondering? is there something called people obsession? i am quite obsessive and take medication. whenever i break up with a girl it takes me forever to get over her. thats why avoid dating. i struggle to see like any other girls besides the ex. i keep thinking about her over and over again a year later. on the ocd side, i struggle to change routines and my thinking. is this a variety of ocd?

Answer 1

Hi,

Yes ,Obsessive-compulsive disorder, also called OCD, is a disorder characterised by recurrent and unstoppable anxious thoughts associated with repetitive actions that help to ease these thoughts. These thoughts are called ‘obsessions’ and arise in a person’s mind, over which he apparently has no control. The person tries to banish them, often unsuccessfully. Attempting to do so can often lead to greater anxiety. Instead, he ends up repeating the actions, called compulsions, to erase the thoughts.

The exact cause of the disorder is unknown. OCD is attributed to a neurological condition and is believed to be the result of a defect in the transfer of neurotransmitters in the brain. Some psychologists believe that it is caused when a person learns to associate a negative emotion with an otherwise neutral stimulus.

The common symptoms are:

Unwanted but unstoppable thoughts creating anxiety in an individual.

The most common are often thoughts of contamination, repeated doubts (wondering whether one has performed a certain act), and often aggressive thoughts like thinking of shouting out obscenities in a temple or place of worship.

People often have a need to have things arranged in a certain order (e.g. symmetrical arrangements of articles on a table)

Repetitive Behaviours that are irrational but unstoppable for example


repeatedly checking that things are in order, e.g. checks that the door is locked many times

Collection of unnecessary items

Performance of the ritualistic behaviours over and over again and great anxiety if they are not performed.


The person is usually conscious of the disorder but fails to do anything about it.

This is curable the treatment of OCD is as under:

Medications are now considered the first line of treatment. A group of drugs called serotonin reuptake inhibitors is often the most helpful. Sometimes a trial of two or three medications is necessary before the optimal choice is found. Many of the medications used are the same as those used to treat depression.

Besides drug treatment, behavioural therapy is used to treat the patient. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a form of psychotherapy where simple skills are taught to diminish the repetitive patterns of behaviour. The patient is gradually eased into becoming less anxious from the disturbing thoughts. As a consequence, the patient learns to reduce the behaviours associated with the recurrent thoughts. Relaxation techniques are also taught which help to reduce the subjective distress.
Treatment is often unable to completely rid a person of the symptoms, but can make them decrease enough to allow a return to normal life.


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Dr.Mojo

Answer 2

I even have OCD and issues like that ensue to me. each and every so often if i'm analyzing something frivolous like a value tag and don't study each and every digit in it, i'm getting an irrational undertaking that if i don't study all of it, i would be questioning and questioning approximately it for something of my existence. So I could desire to return and notice what it replaced into. I additionally get familiar compulsions that contain math. Like if I watch a action picture and be responsive to what time it began and ended, I could desire to ensure precisely how many hours and minutes it replaced into. it somewhat is a burden simply by fact i in my opinion do not care approximately those issues, yet I purely get irrational stress if i don't obey the compulsions to discover them out. If the obsessoin is wanting to discover something out simply by fact of private pastime (a celebrity's telephone huge form, the place a crush lives, what the capital of Georgia is) it somewhat is not concerning OCD simply by fact it somewhat is brought about by using pastime, not stress.