Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD);
is a fairly common problem where people experience ‘obsessions’, recurring unwanted thoughts which are difficult to stop, and ‘compulsions’, rituals of checking behaviour or repetitive actions which are carried out in an attempt to relieve the thoughts. Source: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/info/glosConds.htm
A disorder in which individuals are plagued by persistent, recurring thoughts (obsessions) that reflect exaggerated anxiety or fears. Source: www.ehealthmd.com/library/anxietyworry/AHW_glossary.html
Psychoneurosis characterized by disturbing, unwanted, anxiety-provoking, intruding thoughts or ideas and repetitive impulses to perform acts that may be considered abnormal, undesirable or distasteful to the patient. Source: www.mhacv.org/Glossary/mental_health_glossary.htm
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a brain disorder, and more specifically, an anxiety disorder. OCD is manifested in a variety of forms, but is most commonly characterized by a subject’s obsessive drive to perform a particular task or set of tasks, compulsions commonly termed rituals. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive_compulsive_disorder
After giving the formal and scientific definition of what OCD is, I would like to mention that most people who suffer from OCD have their own definitions of OCD, of course a definition affected by their OCD.
That is, they usually think that their OCD is not right. There have to be a more accurate OCD than they have.
Just from this point, it is not difficult to imagine the anxiety and stress that OCD may bring on any given day.
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January 7th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Dear Osman,
It has been a while since I’ve started to visit your blog and, now that I’ve created my own english psy-space, I’d like to ask you for permission to keep a link to your weblog.
I’d also like to make my blog the more participative as possible, therefore, I hope I can count with your presence and suggestions.
SAM
January 7th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Thank you Sam, I’ll be pleased to see a link on your weblog. I am here, even if at times I post less than daily, you can be sure that I’ll be around.
April 22nd, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Indeed !