Do you agree that the MRI scan of the brain of A PERSON IN LOVE IS SIMILAR to that of a person with OCD?
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Brain activity isn't measure the same as the physical characteristics of the brain.  I can believe that brain activity for people in love might be the same as those with OCD, but I'm not sure that an MRI would be the way it would be measured.\n\nMy reason for agreeing with the concept??  When you are crazy in love, you are usually obsessed with the other person and often act compulsively.  It stands to reason that the same area of the brain would be in control of that.
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I too, am a bit of a Phoebe/Monica cross. I'm totally OCD, but also very ADD at the same time!
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I'm pretty sure you can diagnose yourself with a mental disorder. I have. But of course no one takes me seriously. lol. I guess you could be a hypochondriac... but that's also a mental disorder... and if you think you are a hypochondriac and you aren't... does that mean you really are? hahaha. \n\nMy Answer is yes. OCD is something you can usually spot pretty easily because it's things you actually do and not just things you may feel or think. I'd discuss it with someone and google it/ do some research.
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Maybe they think you are feeling something other than love.\n\nI don't think a person can actually love too much, but I do think a person can have an unhealthy obsession for another person and still think it's nothing but love.\n\nIt doesn't really sound like that's you, though.  Glad you are so happy.
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I was married for 10 years to a man 24 years older than I was, but it really worked. I'm an old soul, and he had a very active inner child. We probably would still be together were it not for a logistical problem: He was claustrophobic, and I have the hoarding form of OCD. We had the EXACT same sense of humor, we were both great listeners and sharers, enjoyed doing almost all the same things together, had the same friends (both his age and my age). But the OCD problem caused him to stay away from home more and more after we'd been married several years, and to drink more and more. In the end, he was unhappy, I was unhappy, I gained a lot of weight, he was put off sexually. I guess we both were by then. But I love him still. The morning of our divorce, we went out to breakfast after!\nThe short answer is, it can be a wonderful match, very companionable, if there are no addictions or neuroses to drive you apart.  If you are attracted to each other and intellectually compatible, temperamentally compatible, go for it.  (Men his age would always look at us and wink or high-five him.)
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If this premise was true, then is this the difference between the DNA of humans and the DNA of an Oak tree?\n\nScience has always done poorly in explaining the source of human emotions.  Is there a genetic difference between Love and Lust?  Either might provoke "successful replication" of the DNA, so why two different emotions, not just one?\n\nThe pure emotion of "fear" might provoke "flight ot fight" and have some survival value, but how does "paranoia" help the individual or the species to survive?\n\nThe mechanism of linking emotions to memories may have a chemical or neurological basis, but no genes have even been found to express this.\n\nPerhaps some areas of study are best left out of the realm of science.  The subjective Universe cannot be verified easily by an objective observer.
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The experience of love is the same, what changes are our preferences\nLove is an emotion that nearly everyone has experienced at some time in their life. One would think that with such a familiar concept, researchers would agree on what constitutes love and how to measure it. That has not been the case. Most research on love is based on a priori theoretical conceptualizations. It's quite possible that if a researcher starts out by defining love and then develops a measure to quantify that conceptualization, the results would tend to reflect this process. \nto attract a mate; 2) to retain the mate; 3) to reproduce; and 4) parental investment.  \n\nLove at first sight, based on physical attributes and is mostly physical arousal; Storge - loving affection that develops over time, is primarily affection and commitment; Ludos - a rover and collector of loves, very pluralistic. Secondary love styles: Mania - intense preoccupation with the loved one, intensly jealous and possessive, in need of constant reassurance of partner's love. Projects desired qualities on partner. Pragma - looking for a compatible partner; Agape - Selfless, caring without self interest. \nThree dimensional view The experience of love is a function of levels  intimacy, commitment and passion\nPassionate love is an intense state of longing for union with another. It has three components: 1) cognitive - intrusive preoccupation with the person, idealization of that person, and desire to know the person; 2) Emotional - Attraction/Sexual attraction, positive and negative feelings, longing for reciprocity, desire for union, physiological arousal; and 3) Behavioral - Actions to determine the other's feelings, studying the person, service to the person, maintaining physical closeness. Companionate love is the affection that we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined\nPassionate love is an intense state of longing for union with another. It has three components: 1) cognitive - intrusive preoccupation with the person, idealization of that person, and desire to know the person; 2) Emotional - Attraction/Sexual attraction, positive and negative feelings, longing for reciprocity, desire for union, physiological arousal; and 3) Behavioral - Actions to determine the other's feelings, studying the person, service to the person, maintaining physical closeness. Companionate love is the affection that we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined\nPassionate love is an intense state of longing for union with another. It has three components: 1) cognitive - intrusive preoccupation with the person, idealization of that person, and desire to know the person; 2) Emotional - Attraction/Sexual attraction, positive and negative feelings, longing for reciprocity, desire for union, physiological arousal; and 3) Behavioral - Actions to determine the other's feelings, studying the person, service to the person, maintaining physical closeness. Companionate love is the affection that we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined\n\n Passion \nGazing at the other, Euphoria, Butterflies in stomach, Heart rate increases, Wonderful feelings, Sexual passion, Sex appeal, Physical attraction, Laughing, Excitement, Warm feelings, Energy, Touching, Admiration, Uncertainty, Positive outlook, Happiness, Have a lot in common, Want to be with other, Scary \n\n Intimacy \nOpenness, Feel free to talk about anything, Supportive, Honesty, Understanding, Patience, Caring, Trust, Feel good about self, Forgiveness, Sharing, Mutual, Responsibility, Other is important, Respect, Compassion, Kind, Closeness, Friendship, Relaxed, Empathy, Interest in other, Affection, Helping, Giving, Liking, Want best for other, Comfort other, Intimacy, Concern for other's well being, Accept other the way s/he is, Contentment, See only other's good qualities \n\n Commitment \nDevotion, Commitment, Put other first, Need each other, Protectiveness, Loyalty, Lo
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Yes! I believe that you can still love a person and not be in love with them anymore. I've been there and its hard, but its very possible.
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I belive if you are really close to someone sometimes (as corny as it sounds) you have similiar brain wave patterns and can tap into each other thoughts.  I had that experience a lot with my best friend.  It is eerie but very cool too!
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OCD...Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.   Or perhaps you just have very high-strung expectations for yourself.  Many are obsessed with perfection although it doesn't make one mentally ill per say.
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I have OCD, but a different kind.  i once felt like exploring the different kinds of OCD, and found out some pretty interesting stuff.  Here's what i found:\n\nObsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder, more specifically, an anxiety disorder. OCD is manifested in a variety of forms, but is most commonly characterized by a subject's obsessive (repetitive, distressing, intrusive) thoughts and related compulsions (tasks or rituals) which attempt to neutralize the obsessions.\nThe typical OCD sufferer performs tasks (or compulsions) to seek relief from obsessions. To others, these tasks may appear odd and unnecessary. But for the sufferer, such tasks can feel critically important, and must be performed in particular ways to ward off dire consequences and to stop the stress from building up. Examples of these tasks: repeatedly checking that one's parked car has been locked before leaving it; turning lights on and off a set number of times before exiting a room; repeatedly washing hands at regular intervals throughout the day.\nAnother symptom of the disorder is fear of contamination; some sufferers may fear the presence of human body secretion such as saliva, sweat, tears or mucus, or excretions such as urine or feces. Some OCD sufferers even fear the soap they're using is contaminated.\nObsessions are thoughts and ideas that the sufferer cannot stop thinking about. Common OCD obsessions include fears of acquiring disease, getting hurt, or causing harm to someone. Obsessions are typically automatic, frequent, distressing, and difficult to control or put an end to by themselves. People with OCD who obsess about hurting themselves or others are actually less likely to do so than the average person.\nCompulsions refer to actions that the person performs, usually repeatedly, in an attempt to make the obsession go away. For an OCD sufferer who obsesses about germs or contamination, for example, these compulsions often involve repeated cleansing or meticulous avoidance of trash and mess. Most of the time the actions become so regular that it is not a noticeable problem. Common compulsions include excessive washing and cleaning; checking; hoarding; repetitive actions such as touching, counting, arranging and ordering; and other ritualistic behaviors that the person feels will lessen the chances of provoking an obsession. Compulsions can be observable — washing, for instance — but they can also be mental rituals such as repeating words or phrases, or counting.\nMost OCD sufferers are aware that such thoughts and behavior are not rational, but feel bound to comply with them to fend off fears of panic or dread. Because sufferers are consciously aware of this irrationality but feel helpless to push it away, untreated OCD is often regarded as one of the most vexing and frustrating of the major anxiety disorders.\nPeople who suffer from the separate and unrelated condition obsessive compulsive personality disorder are not aware of anything abnormal with them; they will readily explain why their actions are rational, and it is usually impossible to convince them otherwise. People who suffer with OCPD tend to derive pleasure from their obsessions or compulsions. Those with OCD do not derive pleasure but are ridden with anxiety. This is a significant difference between these disorders.\n\nEqually frequent, these rationalizations do not apply to the overall behavior, but to each instance individually; for example, a person compulsively checking their front door may argue that the time taken and stress caused by one more check of the front door is considerably less than the time and stress associated with being robbed, and thus the check is the better option. In practice, after that check, the individual is still not sure, and it is still better in terms of time and stress to do one more check, and this reasoning can continue as long as necessary.\n\nNot all OCD sufferers engage in compulsive behavior. Recent
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To the guy below me:  Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.  OCD is a perfectly acceptable way to abbreviate this.\n\nReportedly, the following people deal (dealt) with OCD issues: \n\nHoward Hughes, Roseanne Barr, Howie Mandel, Martin Scorsese, Howard Stern, Marc Summers, Michelangelo, Stanley Kubrick, Harrison Ford, Jane Horrocks, Penelope Cruz, Billy Bob Thornton, Warren Zevon, John List, Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, John George Haigh, Andrew Kehoe, Volkert van der Graaf, Paul Gascoigne, Nikola Tesla, John Melendez, Kathie Lee Gifford, Ludwig van Beethoven, Donald Trump, Cameron Diaz, Albert Einstein, Ian Puleston-Davies, David Beckham, Charlie Sheen, Joey Ramone, Leonardo DiCaprio, Rose McGowan, Aaron Bagnola
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder, specifically, an anxiety disorder. OCD is manifested in a variety of forms, but is most commonly characterized by a subject's obsessive drive to perform a particular task or set of tasks, compulsions commonly termed rituals.
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Well, there is OCD and OCPD  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder.  OCD can ruin ones life.  OCPD is just what we would call a "quirk".  I suffer from both and don't think it will ever go away.  You learn how to deal with it as you would have to with any other disability.  Look up "Cognitive Therapy" in a search engine for a better understanding of how it works.
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OCD is when u have to do certain things, like checking to make sure the windows and doors r locked every five minutes even though u did it five minutes be4 and u know that they r locked. If someone were to prevent u from preforming this task, u would have anxiety and panic attacks. Ur boyfriend is sick in another way. Does he just get annoyed or does he have full scale rages where he wants to cause the speaker physical harm?
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You already had good and detailed answers in here.\nAnyway as everyone had mentioned OCD stands for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.\n\nIt is a type of anxiety that happens when there is a problem with the way the brain deals with normal worrying and doubts. Anyone with OCD worry a lot and feel afraid about bad things that could possibly happen. \n\nIt is very normal for anyone to worry every now and then but this normal worries usually go without causing any problem. When such worries become really intense and happening over and over again, it turns as OCD where the brain replays the worry thoughts and if nothing is done, the worry feeling can get worse and worse. These frequent worry thoughts are called obsessions, and the behaviors people do to try to make the worry thoughts go away are called compulsions, thus making it obsessive-compulsive  disorder. The thoughts and behaviors a person with OCD has are senseless, repetitive, distressing, and sometimes harmful, but they are also difficult to overcome. \n\nSomeone may have obsession on anything.  The obsessive worries just don't quit. The brain keeps repeating them instead of moving on to something else. No matter how much you don't want to hear it, your brain just keeps playing it back. Yelling the word "Stop!" loudly to a person with an obsessive thought is an incompatible response. Someone may have obsessions about:\n>>germs or dirt \n>>illness or injury (involving the person or someone else) \n>>coming across unlucky numbers or words \n>>things being even or straight \n>>things being perfect or just right in a certain way \n>>making mistakes or not being sure \n>>doing or thinking something bad \n\nCompulsions are ritualitic behaviors, or actions believed to let the bad feelings go away (and for a while, it often does), with fear that not doing the ritual will make something bad to happen. The more the rituals are done, the more the feelings of doing them.OCD afflicted persons know the repetition is unnecessary, but are unable to stop themselves.Afflicted individuals usually experience severe anxiety if unable to complete their rituals, though many therapies work by helping the individual learn that no catastrophe occurs when the behaviors do cease. \n\nResearch has shown that one of the most difficult problems in OCD is in getting family members to understand that the patient is unable to simply stop the behavior. Many times relatives become angry and upset when they are forced to deal with the time-consuming and unrealistic repetitive behaviors. With this background, it is no wonder that many patients do not volunteer their symptoms, and instead complain only of anxiety or depression. \n\nSome OCD compulsions:\n>>checking things over and over (such as doors, locks, or stoves and lights)\n>>recurrent intrusive thoughts of hurting oneself or one's children. \n>>lots of hand washing or showering (doing this way more than usual or having a hard time stopping) \n>>counting (like having to count 25 white cars before going into school) \n>>touching (like touching every single fence post between home and the bus stop) \n>>doing things a certain number of times (like having to try on five dresses before leaving your room) \n>>arranging things in a very particular or neat way \n>>asking the same question over and over \n>>tying and retying shoes over and over until they feel just right.\n\nOCD is a long term illness and a very disruptive illness which definite cause is still under research. Research and treatment trials suggest that abnormalities in serotonin (5-HT) transmission in the central nervous system are central to this disorder. Tke known causes which take their roles are genetics, some infectious diseases, stress, and defective interpersonal relationship. OCD should be differentiated from those being a perfectionist and being overly conscientious. \n\nIt
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Oh, yes. OCD can be exhausting.  It is a result of anxiety where other coping mechanisms are not present.  The compulsion to do certain rituals has brought me to tears.  And I think I will explode if I don't get that certain song out of my head.  The anxiety is overwhelming at times.  However, medication has helped tremendously.  It is now somewhat manageable.  It can be a debilitating illness.