I am very familiar with OCD, but I wonder...what parameters constitute an addiction, which fail to include OCD...
2007-12-01 23:02:02 · 7 answers · asked by LUCKY3 6 in Health ➔ Mental Health
People with addictive disorders typically experience at least some pleasure from their activity; OCD sufferers do not actively want to perform their compulsive tasks, and experience no tangible pleasure in doing so. That seems to be the answer.
2007-12-02 01:32:56 · answer #1 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
An addiction has twelve guidelines in which four must be met in order for it to constitute an addiction. There are many things that people with OCD do, or have the thought to do, that do not constitute an addiction. Things that do not have a withdrawl or tolerance are not addictions. And in the case of behavioral addictions, you can have a tolernace or a withdrawl period...in the sense that you gamble more and more money away, you eat less and less food, you have sex more and more (in gambling, eating disorder, and sexual addcitions). Additionally, an addiction has to significantly impair ones life...social, work, personal, etc. Meaning that you are so weak from not eating you can not work (eating disorder), you are so consumed by thoughts of gambling that you don't want to see any of your old friends (gambling)...of course these things are pretty obvious with the 'chemical addictions' of drugs and alcohol...that is why I am giving behavioral examples. And an addiction will end up taking monetary means as well...food for an eating disorder, gambling is obvious, paying for prostitution. There are more signs of an addiction, but these are major ones. And there are lots of obsessions and complusions that are part of OCD, but not categorized as an addiction. Additionally, lots of people with OCD have certain thoughts that are never acted upon, but still present. An addiction is always acted.
2007-12-02 07:15:14 · answer #2 · answered by Jules, E, and Liam :) 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i'm guessing you wanted a researched answer, but here's mine
based on experiences, OCD isn't considered an addiction when their OCD is drawn to be something good, such as addiction to worrying about peoples' feelings. then they're just being a good person, or being too considerate. People dont' see it as an addiction because they're doing a "good" thing. When the OCD is directed to something bad, such as speaking out, it's considered an addiction because it's more...noticeable?
Idk...I hope you get what I mean.
2007-12-02 21:52:20 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have labeled a thing OCD, then by definition it is an addiction.
2007-12-02 11:18:13 · answer #4 · answered by Seeker™ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
obsessive compulsive dissorder?
what would one be addicted to in that case?
2007-12-02 12:02:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
when it takes over your life.
2007-12-02 15:37:25 · answer #6 · answered by Bri the Pilot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wen it really starts 2 affect ur daily life where u constantly thinking about wut u did wrong ie dat 1st step u took out of bed was wrong so u r constantly re takin dat step u kno wut i mean so yea
2007-12-02 15:45:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋