OCD

He doesn't really have OCD

Yes because she made a song about it.

There is no way to get rid of OCD completely but you may take medication to help with the symptoms.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder which is characterised by obsessive thoughts that plague the sufferer and compulsive actions which the person do to relieve the anxiety brought about by the thoughts. An obsessive thought is a recurrent persistent thought (kind of like that annoying song that loops in your head once in a while), which causes the person anxiety and distress. The person typically knows the thought is silly but just can't help thinking about it, no matter how hard he or she tries. A common example portrayed on many TV shows is the thought that all public places are contaminated. The person will keep thinking every door handle and elevator button is covered in germs, to the point that he is afraid of going out, or if he or she does, will do so with great trepidation. To relieve the anxiety wrought by the thoughts, the sufferer does something repetitively that may or may not be related to the thought. To rid himself of contamination, a sufferer may wash his hands 20 times in a ritualistic fashion after contact with something 'dirty'. Failure to complete the routine results in severe anxiety. Other people may have have counting behaviors such as counting the cracks in the sidewalk. Many people actually have a certain degree of obsessiveness or compulsive behavior but it usually does not disrupt their everyday lives. When it becomes bad enough, say you keep worrying about whether you left the stove on and keep going home to check it and thus become 2 hours late for work, then obviously it becomes a problem. This is what differentiates an obsessive compulsive trait from a disorder.

It depeds on what medication your prescribed,

but you could always ask your doctor or pharmasist but personally mine is not too expensive.

I cannot handle a bed that is messy i have to get every crease out of it. it would annoy me any mess but it starts in the morning with the bed and continues all day. tidying up is my obsessive compulsion.

Yes. Stress levels can compound OCD. So can things like alcohol, pms, and caffeine.

Compulsive feelings are internal urges that are hard to resist. This is what people with OCD deal with.

For instance, some people are obsessed with germs, and whenever they feel dirty they feel a compulsion to wash their hands. We might think this is natural, but for someone with OCD, it can get to be a problem, because they are washing their hands more than 50 times a day until they are cracked and bleeding, and then they still feel like they need to wash more. For other people it might be brushing their teeth, or eating, or checking that everything in the house is turned off, or not eating, or avoiding cracks in the pavement, or counting steps, or almost anything.

Compulsions can be a wide range of things, and can vary as to how hard the compulsion is to resist.

clean freaks. Everything must be clean

That's a stereotype, really they are people with severe obsessions that they can't control and the only way to soothe the anxiety is with compulsion necessary. It can lead to severe depression. And even suicide.

Yes. My mother told me she thought I had a touch of OCD because I was so perfectionistic.

actually,no. you will know if you have OCD because you will need everything a certain way, or be afraid of certain things. OCD is not a joke it is a serious health and mental condition so stop playing around, it isn't funny.

Since some with OCD tend to have superstitious beliefs, they may consider the number 6 to be evil or associated with a malevolent power (eg., Satan and demons). So that is partly why they have their compulsive rituals, since they think they can prevent bad things that way.

That is like the story about the man always snapping his fingers. His wife finally persuaded him to seek therapy. The therapist asked why he did that, and he said it was to keep from being attacked by elephants. The therapist exclaimed that there were no elephants within a thousand miles and the patient exclaimed that proved that snapping his fingers all the time worked.

For some individuals, inositol provides a placebo effect and "good" results are reported. However, there are no randomized, clinically controlled trials showing that inositol provides objective benefit for individuals dealing with OCD or depression.

I have OCD, not a servere as some peoples, but still rather annoying. I deal with it by walking away from things and taking your mind off them, for example...if someone was sorting out pencils and i walked past and one wasn't straight, i would just carry on walking. Talk to friends or do something else, don't let it control your life

No, Mr. Shalhoub does not have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), although a character he plays, Adrian Monk, does. Through the years he admits in interviews that he has grown more aware of things that commonly affect people with OCD, but he does not actually suffer from the disorder.

There are no proven effective homeopathic remedies for OCD.

Isolation, Undoing, reaction formation are the main three defence mechanisms for OCD. Magical thinking is another mechanism associated with OCD.

No, it cannot.

The Reliv company does not say it does. If it did, the company would advertise that fact.

Also, no clinical trials were ever conducted to see if it helps with OCD.

Yes, horses can have OCD. But it is not the human condition you're thinking of. OCD in horses refers to Osteochondrosis but not Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Osteochondrosis is a disease that affects a horses joints and is similar to a human experiencing "growing pains."

Symptoms of osteochondrois include stiffness and lameness in the leg.

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By disordered eating, do you mean eating to little or too much?

If so, then YES, I have. I have had OCD for almost as long as I can remember, and have also under-eaten for a long time. The reason behind this may because of obsessive tendencies to pay much attention to the amount consumed, amount of calories, what exactly the ingredients are, etc.

approx 2-3 % of the world population has it, i have it :)