An obsessive-compulsive disorder causes obsessive thoughts for which obsessive actions often follow. As a result, it is often a person becomes unbearable for others. Read more about obsessive thoughts in the article.
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Man rises from bed every night and checks whether all doors are closed. Upon returning to bed, it begins to torment the thought that one door he missed. Another person from fears to infect microbes takes three or four souls in a row, every time processing your body with a special disinfectant. The woman periodically arises the thought that she will cougain in her baby, and it covers panic whenever she has to use scissors or knives. A teenage girl is always late to school, because it feels something forcing them to repeat many of their actions (replace the brush on the dressing table, decompose the school supplies in his portfolio, cross the threshold of their room) a certain number of times, usually a multiple of four.
All these people suffer from different forms of the syndrome of a competence obsession, and in their lives, the repetition of the same actions or thoughts dominates. Obsessive ideas (obsessions) are constantly invading unwanted thoughts, images or impulses causing anxiety. Obsessive actions (compulsion) is an irresistible desire to perform certain actions or rituals that reduce anxiety. Obsessive thoughts are often accompanied by the forced actions (for example, thoughts about the tormented microbes lead to obsessive washbasin of the canteen, a renewer once before using them). Regardless of whether the repeating element is an obsessive thought (obsession) or an obsessive effect (compulsion), the main feature of this disorder is considered a subjective feeling of loss of volitional control. The victims are struggling with all their might to get rid of the concerns of thoughts, and resist the execution of repeated actions, but cannot.
At times, all of us arises constantly returning thoughts («I turned off gas?») and the desire to perform the usual actions (to lay all things on the table in exact order before you start the task). But people with obsessions have such thoughts and actions occupy as much time that every day everyday life. These individuals understand that their thoughts are irrational and disappeared by them, but not able to ignore them or suppress them. They understand the meaninglessness of their forced behavior, but they are alarming when they try to resist him, and after performing such actions, they feel that tensions weakened.
Obsessive thoughts can concern the set of topics, but most often they are associated with harm or other, fear to get infected and doubts that the task is solved satisfactorily. It is quite curious how the content of obsessive thoughts changes with time. In former times, obsessive thoughts about religion and sex were common - for example, blasphemous thoughts, shouting in the church of obscenities or showing their genitals to the public. Today they are less frequent. If earlier obsessive thoughts about infection were associated with syphilis, now AIDS has become the object of many such fears.
