Obsessive compulsive disorder,this might sounds new to us,but it does happen in our daily life. First of all,what is it? Copying the definition from wiki won't help you guys to understand it better. Here's my own definition,obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a anxiety disorder which will lead to fear,worry,unpleasant,uneasiness due to repetitive actions or thoughts.
And if you still don't know what is that,try to understand this phrase. "You're thinking or doing something that is useless,repeatedly." Our brain control our daily actions,thoughts. Sometime,we're totally controlled by this organ in our body. Here an example,when we feel like going to toilet to urinate,it is because our urinary bladder is full and expanded,thus sending a message to our brain. Our mighty little brain receive,integrate and interpret this message into series of actions. We stand up,walk to toilet,close the door,open zip,take out the pipe...and that's it. OCD is exactly the same situation.
The only difference will be number of times certain action being done. Here to make thing clear,easy and effortless task such as washing hand,can be a disturbance in the life of an OCD person. They tend to wash their hand repeatedly,wash so many times just to make sure his hands is free of germs. Why do they feel their hands is so dirty until there is a need to wash it repeatedly? The brain is sending an information continuously,telling himself that his hands is so dirty that it's compulsory to wash it as clean as possible. However,we do know that our hand will be clean once we wash it,and it is almost impossible to keep our hands 100% free from germs.
An OCD person also realise the fact that it is impossible to keep our hand totally clean,but they just couldn't help from stop washing their hands because they're saying that their brain keep on asking them to do so. Yes it is true,the brain is actually telling them to do so. We must know that brain is just like other part of our body,it will fall sick. When a part of our brain called caudate nucleus is sick and not function well,the ability of our brain to interpret information will be affected.
To compare our brain with a car,caudate nucleus is just like a gear box. It's in an automatic gear all the time. So,when it is not functioning well,certain information will be interpreted repeatedly. Once an information is stucked in caudate nucleus,our brain will tell us to do certain action,or hold certain thought in our mind until it is solved or overcomed completely.
The thought that being held is usually in questioning form. A simple question like "we have egg first,or hen first on planet Earth?" can being held in one's mind for a long period of time until they found an answer that satisfy themself. We must accept the fact that certain question has no answer and it is all happened by nature. We will face disaster if we choose to go against nature or try to solve it out.
It is not the end of your days if you're facing this problem. It is caused by biological factor,and yes it can be handled by following few simple steps. Do not give up. And yes,you are NORMAL!
Some said that OCD is caused by genetic factor,and it is inheritable. A statistic showed that there is one OCD person out of every fifty people. Do not worry because it can be CURED! I will talk about that in my next post. So,start to ask yourself,am I one of them? Prevention is definitely better than cure.
And if you still don't know what is that,try to understand this phrase. "You're thinking or doing something that is useless,repeatedly." Our brain control our daily actions,thoughts. Sometime,we're totally controlled by this organ in our body. Here an example,when we feel like going to toilet to urinate,it is because our urinary bladder is full and expanded,thus sending a message to our brain. Our mighty little brain receive,integrate and interpret this message into series of actions. We stand up,walk to toilet,close the door,open zip,take out the pipe...and that's it. OCD is exactly the same situation.
The only difference will be number of times certain action being done. Here to make thing clear,easy and effortless task such as washing hand,can be a disturbance in the life of an OCD person. They tend to wash their hand repeatedly,wash so many times just to make sure his hands is free of germs. Why do they feel their hands is so dirty until there is a need to wash it repeatedly? The brain is sending an information continuously,telling himself that his hands is so dirty that it's compulsory to wash it as clean as possible. However,we do know that our hand will be clean once we wash it,and it is almost impossible to keep our hands 100% free from germs.
An OCD person also realise the fact that it is impossible to keep our hand totally clean,but they just couldn't help from stop washing their hands because they're saying that their brain keep on asking them to do so. Yes it is true,the brain is actually telling them to do so. We must know that brain is just like other part of our body,it will fall sick. When a part of our brain called caudate nucleus is sick and not function well,the ability of our brain to interpret information will be affected.
To compare our brain with a car,caudate nucleus is just like a gear box. It's in an automatic gear all the time. So,when it is not functioning well,certain information will be interpreted repeatedly. Once an information is stucked in caudate nucleus,our brain will tell us to do certain action,or hold certain thought in our mind until it is solved or overcomed completely.
The thought that being held is usually in questioning form. A simple question like "we have egg first,or hen first on planet Earth?" can being held in one's mind for a long period of time until they found an answer that satisfy themself. We must accept the fact that certain question has no answer and it is all happened by nature. We will face disaster if we choose to go against nature or try to solve it out.
It is not the end of your days if you're facing this problem. It is caused by biological factor,and yes it can be handled by following few simple steps. Do not give up. And yes,you are NORMAL!
Some said that OCD is caused by genetic factor,and it is inheritable. A statistic showed that there is one OCD person out of every fifty people. Do not worry because it can be CURED! I will talk about that in my next post. So,start to ask yourself,am I one of them? Prevention is definitely better than cure.
Good one. I wrote abt OCD before on my blog. I have this OCD too even till now. I think everyone has OCD, just that to certain levels.
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yaa anyway,just remember that OCD is a normal condition that will happen in certain period in our life. I will talk about the ways of handling this issue.
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