what effects does OBSESSIVE COMPLUSIVE DISORDER have on effects of lifestyle?
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I suppose it depends on the severity of the disorder.  If it is only mild than, it is possible to lead a satisfactory life, however it can be extremely dehabilitaing.  Some of the most serious cases can result in death.  OCPD is much more pervasive and is typically diagnosed when hoarding behavior is noted.  This type of behavior can lead one to collecting massive amounts of virtually anything.  \n\nThere was a famous case in New York decades ago about a pair of brothers that lived together and had OCPD.  They collected every little thing to the point where they could no longer leave their apartment.  The one died after a massive pile newspapers fell on him, and the other died of starvation.  Of course this is a bit on the extreme side and this did occur almost 70 years ago, so I hope it wouldn't happen today.
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Obssessive Compulsive Disorder is a very disturbing and impeding the life condition. The best treatment is with SSRI antidepressants(especially Venflaxine),sometimes with a combination antipsychotic drugs. The best therapies are Cognitive and Group Therapies in addition to the medications prescribed. By the way,the serotonin is not of too vital importance for OCD as to depression..As to the foods,chocolate ,bread,pasta,etcmake possible syntesing of more serotonine in the brain..Best of luck!!
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bach flower therapy is an alterante and supporting measure in  depression and other mental disorders.. if its a obession or OCD. then its a chemical imbalence in the neurotransmittors of brain and no therapy  has been proved to cure it in literature\nprimary treatment for obsessions is purely medicines therapies like bachs and others are used additionally to give better cure ..best luck
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It sounds like you truely do have OCD. I take it you are underage and cannot obtain medical treatment on your own. If your parents refuse to have you treated please go as soon as you become of age. It can be very sucessfully treated with medication and or therapy.\n\nthis is from a web site:\n\nWhat are obsessions and compulsions?\nObsessions are recurrent, persistent, unwanted ideas, thoughts, images or impulses that are experienced involuntarily, appear to be senseless, and feel out of control. They commonly intrude when you are trying to focus on thinking or doing other things. Obsessions are often accompanied by uncomfortable feelings, such as fear, disgust, doubt, or a sensation that things have to be done in a way that is "just so." \n\nSome common obsessions include: \n\nfear of danger to oneself or others \nfear of contamination \na need for exactness or order \nA compulsion is a repetitive behavior - a ritual - that you feel driven to do, and seemingly cannot stop doing. Compulsions occur as a result of obsessions and represent your attempts to manage your incessant thoughts by doing something to try to settle them. For example, if an obsessive worry is whether or not the door was locked, then a compulsive response might be to check the lock repeatedly. Some common compulsive behaviors are: \n\nexcessive checking \ncounting \nsilent repetition of words \nhand washing \ncleaning \n ordering / arranging \ntouching \npraying \nhoarding \n \n\nObsessions and compulsions range from mild checking behavior (did I lock the door?) to severe cases where you are unable to function based on compulsions having taken over normal life functioning. If we think of obsessive-compulsive traits and behaviors on a continuum of varying degrees and intensities, most people experience them with little or no negative consequence on their daily lives and relationships. \n\nWhen obsessions, compulsions, and perfectionist behaviors take up excessive time and significantly interfere with your daily life and relationships, it is time to seek help. When this occurs, the repetitive and seemingly out-of-control behaviors of obsession and compulsion may be indicative of a disorder that should be addressed with the help of a licensed professional. \n\nIf: \n\nyou feel unable to keep up with your normal appearance and behavior, \nyou can’t work, \nyou cut off connections with friends and families and are unable to socialize, or \nyou can’t take care of yourself and have trouble eating, sleeping, bathing, etc. \nit is time to seek help! \nBehavioral therapy with medications seems to offer the best long-term improvement for the treatment of OCD. Even though you probably realize that your anxiety and behaviors are excessive and irrational, changing them is not a simple matter. Most people with OCD require assistance from a qualified therapist.\n\nCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Generally viewed as the most effective form of psychotherapy for treating most anxiety disorders, CBT involves the use of such techniques as: \nthought-stopping \ngradual challenging of irrational behaviors \nidentifying triggers and separating them from the feelings of extreme fear and the desire to avoid certain situations \nsystematic desensitization focused on the physical sensations of your anxiety \n"post-modern" therapies (such as Narrative and Solution-Focused models), which may help by placing the symptoms outside you and allowing you to tell a new story about them. \nPsychoeducation: One of the difficulties with OCD is the confusion about this disorder. It is frustrating for the individual and family members to manage a situation that is so misunderstood. An early and important part of treatment is getting a good education in what is known about this disorder. \nMedications: Certain anti-depressants (usually SSRIs) or other anti-anxiety medications have had good success with many people who suffer from OCD. It appears that these medications act
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The urges that come with having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder can be extremely, if not impossible to over come on your own. OCD is a battle with your mind, it is a battle with yourself. It is thought that stress elevates the urges that come with OCD, but if you attempt to stop doing the routines and such, this will often stress you out more, causing the OCD to heighten. This is why it is so difficult to over come on your own, and listed by the World Health Orginization as one of the most frustrating disorders to live with, if left untreated. \n\nFor a description of treatment available for OCD and more information on the disorder refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCD#Treatment\n\nIt is also good, to keep a notepad and pencil nearby when at home, or carry one with you. When you the urge to do something, before or after you do it, write down what the urge was. Beside it, list the intensity of the urge to carry out the routine, from one to ten. Then at the end of the day, read through your notes, try to find some sense in why you shouldn't be doing these things. This will most likely only be a small solution, though. If you suspect you have this, if you already haven't, a Health Care Professional can be consulted on the matter.
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Well if I had OCD, I think in order to help myself, I would gradually taper off on each thing I did that was compulsive...\nLike for an example, I would quit washing my hands so often or quit checking locks on doors or quit checking to see if I turned out lights or quit wiping down counters I already wiped, things like that...\nJust do your OCD things less each time you do them...
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Yes and no.\nMostly yes, really. That is, if you mean 'overly perfectionistic' when you say 'overly competant'. \n\nResearch into maladaptive perfectionism has shown that this sort of perceptionism is quite strongly correlated with major depression and also with obsessive compulsive disorder.\n\nFurthermore, research has shown that treating perfectionism can lead to a real decrease in depressive symptoms.\nMy university has some researchers in clinical perfectionism.\nThe researchers recommend a book called "When perfect isn't good enough: Strategies for coping with perfectionsm" by Martin M. Antony and Richard P. Swinson. If you are already depressed, don't go through the book on your own, instead go through it with your counsellor. \nIt's based on empirically validated therapies (especially cognitive behavioural therapies) and it's probably a good place to go to if you're asking questions about the relationship between wanting being 'overly competant' and being depressed.\nEven if you don't do the exercises, it might help you or others to realise the impact that maladaptive perfectionsm may have.\n\nI hope that helped. Feel free to contact me if you want more information - I'm doing my thesis on people who base their self-worth on external factors such as academic achievement, so I might be able to offer more information :)
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Well technically you can become addicted to anything,  The repeat of the action on a daily, or hourly basis after a while  your mind will want to keep repeating that action.  It's worse for people with OCD, they may not even realize they are doing it.
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That has nothing to do with OCD. If you were obsessive-compulsive you'd have many obsessions that would take up a lot of your time and be in your thoughts a lot and you would have a hard time NOT doing them. Cleaning your butt well is not OCD.
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I agree with the others that it sounds like your wife has OCD.  I pasted some info. below, and there is more if you go to the website.  Encourage your wife to speak to her doctor about this; he/she can give her a referral to a psychiatrist.  If your wife is resistant to the idea, show her this info., or the info. on the website; maybe that will convince her.  Good luck.\n\n\nTypical Compulsions\nCompulsions are repetitive, often ritualized behaviors that are intended to suppress the anxiety caused by obsessions. Compulsions common in OCD are the following:\n\n    * Asking for assurances\n    * Avoiding places or situations\n    * Cleaning\n    * Counting\n    * Doing certain tasks slowly and deliberately\n    * Doubting and checking, e.g., locks, lights, and ovens\n    * Hoarding possessions\n    * Ordering or arranging\n    * Repeating behaviors, including speech and action\n    * Washing, e.g., excessive hand-washing or bathing \n\nTypical Obsessions\nObsessions are recurrent, intrusive, and unwanted thoughts, impulses, or images that cause significant anxiety. At first the obsession may be experienced as relatively benign. Over time, the person associates it with fear and disabling anxiety. Obsessions fall into the following common thematic categories:\n\n    * Fear of contamination with dirt, germs, or poisons\n    * Fear of having a serious illness\n    * Fear that ones actions hurt other people or cause bad things to happen\n    * Inability to discard useless items (hoarding)\n    * Inappropriate sexual and aggressive thoughts and images\n    * Need for symmetry, order, or exactness
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242-1000, USA.\n\nCompulsive buying disorder is characterised by excessive or poorly controlled preoccupations, urges or behaviours regarding shopping and spending, which lead to adverse consequences. Compulsive buying disorder has been estimated to affect from 2 to 8% of the general adult population in the US; 80 to 95% of those affected are female. Onset occurs in the late teens or early twenties, and the disorder is generally chronic. Psychiatric comorbidity is frequent, particularly mood, anxiety, substance use, eating and personality disorders. Treatment has not been well delineated, but individual and group psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy and 12-step programmes may be helpful. Debt consolidation and credit counselling will be appropriate for many individuals who have compulsive buying disorder. Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine; 5-HT) re- uptake inhibitors may help some patients regulate their buying impulses. Self-help books are also available.\n\n\nI hope this helps...\n\nDon
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I've been there.  I have not been diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder yet, but I do have trichtotillamania.  Trichtotillamania is very similar to OCD because the thoughts are repetitive.  Whenever I get stressed out, I HAVE TO pluck my hairs.  I am very obsessive about germs and counting, avoiding different things, eating an even number of M&M's or chips....making the table look perfectly even...doing things over and over.  I SHOULD be diagnosed, but it is not so much of a problem since it does not interfere with work or school.  Here's what I would recommend....since most people don't understand how the disorder works....\nObviously, try not to think about things, and if you do start thinking about doing something compulsive then you should focus on that and ONLY that, and do it.  It sounds like you aren't suffering from it as much as others that suffer from our problem.  Your treatment should take care of it, and, yes, it is normal for your therapist to be taking her time.\nAs far as depression goes, I was also diagnosed with manic depression.  My birthmother has bipolar disorder.  I'm not going into the differences.  However, I can tell you that Effexor XR helped me.  It may not help you because it depends on the meds they do put you on.  I had to counter the nervous effects of the antidepressant Effexor, with the anti-seizure medicine Neurontin.  So....let your psychiatrist decide what is best for you.  Do not stop taking your pills and tell your therapist if you feel any different.  Keeping a journal will help you keep track.  I hope this helps.  Good luck!
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Intrusive thoughts can co-occur with obsessive-compusive disorder (OCD). Common obsessions are fears of contamination by germs, dirt or chemicals, aggressive thoughts about physically harming a loved one, Intrusive sexual thoughts or urges, excessively doubting own morals or religious convictions. Can occur with compulsions or without, however carrying out a compulsion reduces the person's anxiety but unforunately makes the urge to perform the compulsion again stronger each time as a cycle sets in.Intrusive thoughts may also co-occur with an obsessional personality, which is marked by neuroses, indecisiveness and perfectionism, and other things.
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Your question is not clear enough but I will try and answer. \n\nI think you mean. how can we control a bad habit?\nWell OCD(Obsessive Compulsive disorder.) Is a condition where people have habits they cant shake and rituals they cant live without I believe the most common form is counting constantly. When I was little I always counted and had other weird compulsive conditions but through prayer and knowledge of God and disconnecting bad habits from my life I stopped. Oh and your first answer talks about the bible. Where you can find those scriptures is in Galatians 5 and Romans 10:9-10 is the one about salvation. God Bless hope I helped even a little.
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It is Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD\nTreatment\nTwo forms of treatment are available for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a type of psychotherapy called cognitive behavior therapy and antidepressant medications.\nCognitive behavior therapy\nThis form of psychological treatment involves retraining your thought patterns and routines so that compulsive behaviors are no longer necessary. One approach in particular is called exposure and response prevention. The therapy involves gradually exposing you to a feared object or obsession and teaching you different ways to deal with it, rather than performing your anxiety-reducing ritual or compulsion. During the course of treatment, your symptoms gradually decrease in frequency and intensity. Learning the techniques and new thought patterns takes effort and practice, but it's worth it. Most people with obsessive-compulsive disorder show improvement of signs and symptoms with cognitive behavior therapy.\nCognitive behavior therapy may be especially helpful for children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder. A study published in the Oct. 27, 2004, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found that almost 40 percent of children receiving cognitive behavior therapy had a significant reduction in symptoms, while only about one in five children taking antidepressant medication alone did. However, the study found that the most effective treatment was combining cognitive behavior therapy with antidepressant medication. Almost 60 percent of the children in the study receiving the combination treatment reported remission of their symptoms.\nIt's important to find a therapist who is well trained in cognitive behavior therapy. Ask your doctor for a recommendation or contact the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation at (203) 401-2070.\nCognitive behavior therapy isn't for everyone, though. As many as one in four people with obsessive-compulsive disorder refuses this treatment because it can be difficult.\nAntidepressant medications\nThese medications also may help relieve the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder:\n Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as citalopram (Celexa), escitalopram (Lexapro), fluoxetine (Prozac), fluvoxamine (Luvox), paroxetine (Paxil) and sertraline (Zoloft). SSRIs work by enhancing the brain's ability to use serotonin, a chemical that helps brain cells send and receive messages. Doctors believe serotonin plays a crucial role in mood states. \n Tricyclic antidepressants such as clomipramine (Anafranil). \n\nBackground: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is classified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) as an anxiety disorder. It is characterized by distressing intrusive thoughts and/or repetitive actions that interfere with the individual's daily functioning. The DSM-IV criteria for OCD are as follows: \n\n\nThe individual expresses either obsessions or compulsions. Obsessions are defined by the following 4 criteria: \n\nRecurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images are experienced at some time during the disturbance as intrusive and inappropriate and cause marked anxiety and distress. \n\nThe thoughts, impulses, or images are not simply worries about real-life problems. \n\nThe person attempts to suppress or ignore such thoughts, impulses, or images or to neutralize them with some other thought or action. \n\nThe person recognizes that the obsessional thoughts, impulses, or images are a product of his/her own mind (not imposed from without as in thought insertion).\n\nCompulsions are defined by the following 2 criteria: \n\nThe person feels driven to perform repetitive behaviors (eg, hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (eg, praying, counting, repeating words silently) in response to an obsession or according to rules that must be applied rigidly. \n\nThe behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or prev
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I have a condition that some people know and some dont.  Its called Obsessive Complusive.  Part of the "disorder" is I count things.. all the time.. I find consistant patterns etc. The guy I am seeing asked me once to tell him how "obsessive" my counting was so I started telling him " I know the exact number of movements it takes to tie your shoes, I know the number of drawers you have on your dresser, and I know how many times you pat your pockets when you are getting ready to change your pants.. " He smiled at me and said there are some things you cant count you know".. I said Yeah like what... He said in the most cencere voice " You cant how many times a day I think about you.. You cant count the times of day that I wish you were with me... and you cant count the times A day I want to touch your face".... That.. was the most sincere compliment i have ever gotten
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Yes, this sounds like a case of OCD. It is characterized by unwanted thoughts that can interrupt your daily life. This site here...   \n\nhttp://www.mayoclinic.com/health/obsessive-compulsive-disorder/DS00189/DSECTION=2\n\nMight help you.