Obsessive Compulsive disorder is a mental disease that can corrupt your brain with thoughts that can cause anxiety and repetitive behaviors such as patterns, counting and going back to touch objects. These thoughts could lead to unreasonable patterns and a lot of the time the obsessions are not even reasonable. When you try to stop an obsession it can increase anxiety and distress. There is a urge that drives you to perform unnecessary compulsive acts in order to make it easier on yourself. Even though you may try hard to stop these thoughts and concerns the obsessive thoughts come back.
Symptoms
- Fear of being contaminated by germs or dirt or contaminating others
- Fear of causing harm to yourself or others
- Intrusive sexually explicit or violent thoughts and images
- Excessive focus on religious or moral ideas
- Fear of losing or not having things you might need
- Order and symmetry: the idea that everything must line up “just right.”
- Superstitions; excessive attention to something considered lucky or unlucky
- Skin lesions because of picking at your skin
- Hair loss or bald spots because of hair pulling
- Avoidance of situations that can trigger obsessions, such as shaking hands
Body systems it affects
- Central Nervous System
www.ocfoundation.org
kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/emotion/ocd.html
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A person with OCD may have obsessions, compulsions, or both. Often a person’s obsessions and compulsions are characterized by anxiety or fear that something bad might happen. Some people with OCD fear contamination, whether from dirt, germs, certain illnesses.
OCD affects homeostasis because people with this disease are so overly obsessive about unnecessary acts to the point where everyday activities can be very stressful and anxiety filled and your brain becomes corrupted.
OCD is an anxiety disorder that causes the body to repeat a behavior until done correctly or in the way they want. Treatment includes therapy.
Anyone with OCD is going through things that are hard to handle. They feel the need to do something over and over again. For example if you see something on the floor and you always have to pick it up, its a compulsion. This is affecting the homeostasis of the body.
Well chosen diagram - it is showing the connection between this disorder and brain functioning. Scientists can use this information to develop even better treatment.
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