Causes of obsessive-compulsive disorder of cleanliness

Many people in life are obsessed with cleanliness, which is an excessively clean habit. Many people think that cleanliness is just a habit and it's no big deal, but psychologists point out that cleanliness is actually an obsessive-compulsive disorder. So, what is the cause of obsessive-compulsive disorder?

There are two main reasons for obsessive-compulsive disorder:

The causes of obsessive-compulsive disorder such as 1 and cleanliness addiction are generally related to personal personality and life experience. Most patients can point out accidents that happened before his symptoms worsened. Such as family relocation, death of relatives, divorce of parents or themselves, and disharmony in sexual life. The mental stress and mood swings caused by these reasons can all be the inducement of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

2. The personality characteristics of patients also play an important role in the occurrence of diseases. According to research, most patients have special personality characteristics: for example, most young patients love to be clean and tidy, obedient, earnest and serious; Adult patients generally have a strong sense of time, abide by discipline and system, have rigid living habits, are too cautious and indecisive, and many people may be superstitious.

For obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychotherapy is the main treatment, supplemented by drug treatment:

1, flood therapy. Let the patient sit in the room and let his friends or relatives be assistants. The patient relaxes, closes his eyes gently, and then asks the assistant to smear various liquids on the patient's hands, such as water, ink, rice soup, oil, dye, etc. When drawing, patients should try to relax, and assistants should try to describe their dirty hands in words. Patients should be patient as much as possible until they can't stand it. Open their eyes to see how dirty it is.

2. Cognitive understanding therapy. Generally speaking, patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder are troubled by their own obsessive-compulsive symptoms, especially obsessive-compulsive behavior. On the one hand, they hope that doctors can get rid of their unreasonable thoughts and behaviors. On the other hand, I think these thoughts and actions are reasonable and necessary.

The above introduction about the causes of cleanliness addiction and how to treat cleanliness addiction hopes to help everyone stay away from the troubles caused by cleanliness addiction as much as possible.

Why is obsessive-compulsive disorder so difficult to treat?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a refractory mental illness, and the pain it brings is unbearable for people who have not experienced it personally. In reality, many patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder are choosing Morita therapy to treat their obsessive-compulsive disorder, but the therapeutic effect is sometimes not ideal. Of course, this is not because Morita therapy is not good, but because Morita spirit is not correctly understood. Here I will analyze two other reasons why obsessive-compulsive disorder is difficult to treat, except that I don't understand Morita's spirit correctly.

1, everyone has a compulsive tendency.

The biggest wish of obsessive-compulsive disorder patients may be that there will never be a trace of obsessive-compulsive disorder in their minds. Although this idea is beautiful, it is also dangerous, because there is no idea that compulsion is perfectionism, which will lay a hidden danger for you to get out of the whirlpool of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the future.

In real life, each of us will encounter some setbacks, setbacks and things that need to be chosen. At this time, each of us will be worried and will keep thinking about how to deal with these things in our minds. Especially when we are faced with major choices, it is possible that this kind of repeated thinking will take longer. In fact, from another perspective, this kind of repeated thinking is a kind of compulsion, so in fact, each of us has a compulsive tendency.

Therefore, patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder should give up their desire for perfectionism and don't have a little obsessive-compulsive concept, because if you persist in this, these inevitable obsessive-compulsive behaviors in life will combine with your obsessive-compulsive disorder and aggravate your symptoms, which is why obsessive-compulsive disorder is difficult to follow, because compulsion cannot be completely eradicated.

2. Coercion is easy to generalize

One characteristic of obsessive-compulsive disorder is easy to generalize, that is to say, at first we forced only one idea, and later we forced more and more ideas, one after another, either at the same time or one after another. The reason for forcibly generalizing should start with personality. Generally speaking, patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder are introverted, perfectionist, sensitive and stubborn. After suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, the sensitivity in the original personality components is more sensitive because of symptoms, so it is generalized. Of course, from the perspective of behaviorism, it is because of the formation of a compulsive habit. From the perspective of psychoanalysis, generalization is actually a manifestation of persistent unresolved psychological conflicts.

So how can we prevent forced generalization? The answer is simple. First, we should be aware of the existence of generalization. When there is generalization, we don't have to pay attention to these thoughts that make you think again and again, but do what we should do, so generalization won't affect you. Of course, sometimes these generalized concepts of compulsion seem to be correct, giving people the feeling that it is impossible not to think about it, but you should remember that this is a trap. As long as you think about it, you will fall into a vicious circle of compulsion.

In order to make the summary clear, let me give you an example: for example, does anyone think it strange that he just forced others repeatedly at first? Because this forced conflict continued to be unresolved, he forced something else. For example, when he was watching a movie about human science and education, he suddenly had an idea that we should divide men and women, so he repeatedly thought about this problem, and then after going out, he suddenly thought about whether the door was unlocked, so he forced to think about this problem, and so on. More and more things are forced, but in fact they are all caused by forced generalization. If he knew in advance that coercion would be generalized, he would be alert and realize that it was not these problems (why people are divided into men and women, and so on). Those were meaningful, but the symptoms were generalized, so that he had a bottom in his heart, his inner anxiety was reduced a lot, and he found a reason to let nature take its course and not care about these symptoms.

In fact, the biggest pain of obsessive-compulsive disorder is not compulsive thoughts or behaviors, but anxiety, tension and uneasiness that accompany these thoughts and behaviors. If you don't think about it, if your mood is calm or even happy, then even if the symptoms of thinking about the problem persist, will you still be as painful as before? Therefore, if you want to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder, don't treat symptoms as enemies, but accept symptoms. In this way, you will not take the symptoms so seriously, and your mood will be calm if the symptoms are not important.

Do you have password obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Real case

Xiao Ming has nearly a hundred passwords at present, and he is often troubled by unclear memory. Whenever he wants to enter the password, his mind is like a mess, and he has no clue. The more he thinks about it, the more headache he has.

Since the first two months, Xiao Ming's mind has been filled with a lot of messy passwords, and he often feels backache, poor sleep and even affects his work.

Every day when Xiao Ming comes to the company to open the computer prompt, he must first enter the password; You also need to enter a password to check your email. Open the wallet, there are 9 bank cards in it, each card has inquiry password and transaction password, as well as online banking password, transaction "U shield" password and telephone banking password.

In addition, Xiaoming has daily communication tools such as credit card, stock fund card, shopping mall membership card, QQ, MSN, Fetion, and passwords of websites such as Taobao, Joyo and Dangdang. With a pinch of fingers, he has almost 70 passwords. And these are all passwords that need to be used frequently in daily life.

To tell the truth, it is not easy to remember so many passwords. However, Xiao Ming has a strong memory. He usually remembers the house numbers and mobile phone numbers of some friends, and he can "pick them up casually" by memory. But now these passwords are much more difficult to remember than mobile phone numbers. Moreover, the password length required by each family is different, some are long and some are short. Some must be numbers, some must be interspersed with letters, some require passwords to be case-sensitive, and even some passwords are best mixed with symbols such as numbers and even horizontal lines.

After a long time, it will be strange if there is no problem. Xiaoming used a bank credit card to buy things in a supermarket last week. As a result, he entered the wrong password twice in a row and was sweating with anxiety. Finally, he could only call his wife for help, but he still entered the wrong password for the third time and had no choice but to give up buying. And in the last two days, he always couldn't figure out which is the QQ password, which is the MSN password and which is the Fetion password. Sometimes the password has been fixed, and when logging in, the system shows that it is logged in from a different place or there is a risk of theft. Suggest that he change a new password. The new password can't be the same as the previous password, and as a result, he has to take pains to think about the new password, which is annoying! Now he needs to enter a password every time he logs in, but he can't remember which password it is. When he remembers it, he has a headache and often has nightmares.

The other night, Xiao Ming had a nightmare about "password". He stood at the door and rang the doorbell. Computer voice prompt: Please enter the password. He entered a password, and the computer said that the password was wrong. I lost another one, but it's still wrong. At this time, he saw his wife standing at the door, and quickly begged: I am your husband, open the door and let me in. The wife said coldly, please enter the password. ...

Spiritual navigation

There are more and more "obsessive-compulsive disorder" in modern urbanites, such as computer obsessive-compulsive disorder, mobile phone obsessive-compulsive disorder and password obsessive-compulsive disorder. As can be seen from the above cases, Xiao Ming is a typical password obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The so-called "password obsessive-compulsive disorder", as the name implies, is that people often forget their passwords, feel mentally exhausted, trance, and even have serious psychological obstacles. Many patients have obsessive-compulsive disorder because they have to remind themselves to remember their passwords frequently. Others are often troubled by the difficulty of passwords. They are too simple and easy to remember, but they are afraid of being stolen. If they are too difficult to remember, they will become anxious and worried over time.

According to historical records, passwords originated in Greece. In 404 BC, after the commander-in-chief of Sparta North Road conquered Athens, the emissary of our country arrived and presented a belt with words on it, informing the enemy that he was trying to cut off his retreat. Lysander made a decisive decision and led his troops out of danger lightly.

In the 4th century A.D., there appeared a primary password to hide the contents of letters in Greece. At the end of the Middle Ages, in order to break through the shackles of the feudal system on free love, the Spanish people and young men and women of the aristocratic class had to adopt various forms of secret communication, which led to the emergence of various original passwords.

With the frequent use of passwords in more and more fields in daily life, complex password information is increasingly puzzling modern urbanites. And in some media, "experts" often come out to remind people: "Passwords should be changed frequently; Avoid using mobile phone numbers, birthdays, etc. " As a result, this psychological defense mechanism is becoming more and more fragile and nervous under the pressure of competition, and anxiety and fear often plague people. Obviously, "password obsessive-compulsive disorder" is caused by the fast pace of modern society and the rapid development of digitalization.

There is another kind of person who may have been cracked by others, so under the psychological effect of "once bitten, twice shy", all personal information is set with passwords, whether it is necessary or not.

Because the password is confusing, there will be symptoms such as depression and anxiety; In severe cases, it is accompanied by symptoms such as headache, dizziness and neurasthenia. In fact, these are all psychological obstacles caused by forced memory, and they are abnormal manifestations of excessive psychological defense consciousness. If it is not properly adjusted, "password obsessive-compulsive disorder" may evolve into a harmful emotion. Once it breaks out, it will lead to serious psychological diseases such as depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Psychological prescription

Strengthen self-regulation: ensure adequate sleep, pay attention to self-exercise of personality, sincerely trust others, and overcome bad characters such as being too cautious, indecisive and timid.

Pay attention to environmental transformation: create a relaxed, rich and regular living environment and living system, and restore and maintain a good functional state of the cerebral cortex.

Adequate and reasonable encryption: Setting passwords according to the importance of information can properly classify and set passwords of different information and simplify complex problems. For example, similar passwords related to financial management are set to odd numbers, and passwords related to social life information are set to even numbers. In addition, you can also use the most primitive and simple method to record all passwords in a notebook and back them up in a computer folder.

If the condition is serious, you need to take some drugs properly under the guidance of a doctor to eliminate tension.

How to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder

As the saying goes, many friends who are obsessed with obsessive-compulsive disorder know their temperament as well as psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, and can easily tell the performance of obsessive-compulsive disorder thinking and behavior on themselves. But why is the understanding of obsessive-compulsive disorder so clear, or can't escape this whirlpool, but it is getting deeper and deeper? Today we will look at the relationship between compulsive thinking and compulsive behavior, and see what makes us repeat meaningless.

As we all know, obsessive-compulsive disorder includes compulsive thinking and compulsive behavior. Among them, forced thinking is those thoughts, impulsive intentions or imagination that repeatedly break into the mind and cause strong anxiety or pain; And compulsive behavior refers to the behavior or psychological activity that is forced to do in order to alleviate the anxiety or pain caused by compulsive thinking. 90% obsessive-compulsive friends tell us that their obsessive-compulsive behavior is to prevent the emergence of obsessive-compulsive thinking, or to alleviate the pain caused by obsessive-compulsive thinking.

Seeing this, many friends will say, I know all this, so what? Don't worry, let's outline more details of obsessive-compulsive disorder through some questions, and take some time to write down the answers.

1. At what time, place and occasion do you particularly want to make compulsive behaviors (such as washing your hands, checking, counting, etc.). )?

2. Why are these times, places and occasions special to me? What will you see, hear and think?

3. What am I worried about and afraid of? What will happen if you are worried?

It's hard to think of these things. What must I do to make my heart comfortable?

5. Besides, what other time, place and occasions will similar situations occur?

The following is an experience shared by a middle-aged woman trapped in repeated hand washing:

I have the strongest desire to wash my hands when I walk in the park. There are too many animals in that place, whether they are alive or dead. I think those dead animals must have some diseases. With the flow of rain, these viruses are everywhere. When the sun comes out, they may evaporate into the air and blow to every corner. I don't know what kind of bacteria and viruses will be there. If I go for a walk, I may get infected in minutes. Once this unknown virus gets to me, I will definitely get seriously ill. I really can't think of a better way than washing my hands. I have to wash it with alcohol for half an hour, so that I can be a little sure that I won't be infected with the virus for a while. By the way, I can't go to streets with flower beds or communities with small gardens. Those places are not much different from parks.

This psychological and behavioral process must be familiar to friends. Let's tidy up. First of all, when approaching the park or seeing dead animals (threatening clues), there will be such an idea that "the virus from dead animals will run to me and I will get seriously ill" (forced thinking). Then, because I believed these ideas, I had strong emotions such as fear, tension and anxiety, which was unbearable, so I had to wash my hands with alcohol (compulsive behavior), so I felt very comfortable. It can also be seen from here that the role of compulsive behavior is to alleviate the pain caused by compulsive thinking. This is the strange circle of "forced thinking-strong emotion-forced behavior-relieving emotion" that needs our vigilance.

The benefits of compulsive behavior are obvious, so the next time there are threatening clues and compulsive thinking comes, we will repeat this process and let our pain and anxiety drop rapidly. But it also buried unexpected hidden dangers. Slowly, this process is becoming more and more automatic, with more and more forced thoughts appearing, more and more forced behaviors taking place, and more and more places to be afraid of, which greatly disrupts life.

Compulsive behavior is such a sugar-coated ecstasy, which is sweet in the mouth at first, and I can't help but want it to stay longer or eat more at a time; But when the sugar coating fades, our taste becomes more and more bitter. This pill makes our hands and feet numb and unable to do other things freely. At this time, we want to spit out this pill, but unfortunately it has melted in our mouths and can't get rid of it.

Now, after many hardships, we finally understand the true face of this ecstasy. The lesson of blood tells us that no matter how beautiful and sweet it looks, don't put it in your mouth.

Psychological adjustment of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

As we all know, obsessive-compulsive disorder is a very painful disease. For years, patients have been struggling with their obsessive thoughts. They tried to restrain themselves but couldn't get rid of them. They feel uncontrollable about their repetitive behavior which they know is wrong. They often mistake or fear others as "mental illness", and their inner pain reaches the limit. Because the "self-struggle" of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder can not solve the problem, on the contrary, the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder are getting more and more serious, and the confidence of patients is also declining. Therefore, OCD patients often ask doctors: Is OCD a mental illness? Can obsessive-compulsive disorder be cured?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is not a mental illness. Because patients feel that their thinking and behavior are abnormal, they are often mistaken for mental illness. I can try to hide my illness in front of people and even avoid seeking medical treatment. However, covering up and avoiding the important will only delay the solution of the problem and increase the difficulty of treatment and self-help.

Once forced thinking interferes with normal psychological activities, it will not only affect the exertion of intelligence level, but also cause psychological pressure, which will make patients feel more inferior, nervous and anxious and affect their normal life and study. The essence of obsessive-compulsive disorder is psychological struggle. Therefore, the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder should generally be based on psychotherapy, supplemented by drug treatment.

Of course, the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder is not easy, although pathophysiological studies have found that patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder lack a neurotransmitter called serotonin in their brains. Clomipramine (also known as "Annafenib") and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (such as fluoxetine, paroxetine and sertraline) can increase serotonin in the synaptic space of the brain, which has anti-obsessive-compulsive effect and provides drugs for obsessive-compulsive disorder. The effective rate of drug therapy is about 60% ~ 70%, but there are often more or less side effects. In order to avoid the recurrence of symptoms, even effective patients still need long-term maintenance treatment. Behavioral therapy research shows that effective behavioral therapy can also increase the content of 5- hydroxytryptamine in the brain of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Therefore, some scholars advocate that psychotherapy should be the basic treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder, so as to solve patients' psychological problems and help patients change their personality deviation.

The primary obstacle of psychotherapy is the negative attitude of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder to treatment. They feel that their symptoms can't be controlled, they have no confidence in whether they can get better, and they have no determination to save themselves. This negative attitude is very harmful and must be changed. As long as they realize that the possibility of self-help and rehabilitation is real, help them build up confidence and encourage them to make up their minds to save themselves, their passive waiting attitude will change. Of course, with the right attitude, patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder need to understand their psychological problems, adopt correct self-help methods and adhere to behavior training. Only when the original mentality of obsessive-compulsive disorder patients is "doubt is irreversible" can they become promising "village girls"

Psychological adjustment methods of obsessive-compulsive disorder;

1, psychological support The emergence or aggravation of obsessive-compulsive thinking mostly occurs in a state of mental tension or psychological stress and psychological contradiction. Compulsive thinking is difficult to get rid of, which intensifies psychological contradictions and leads to a vicious circle, which is easy to produce anxiety or psychological pain. Therefore, people should pay special attention to mental health, family and society, and their relatives, teachers and colleagues should also give comfort and psychological support to help them make psychological adjustment and reduce the occurrence of obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

2, divert attention, in fact, is also a kind of talk, that is, focus on work, study and amateur interests, especially when your obsessive thinking appears, if you can pay attention to other things in time, engage in activities that you are most interested in, and shift your attention to obsessive thinking, you can avoid psychological contradictions and pain.

3, let nature take its course, talk about the symptoms of your compulsive thinking appropriately, let nature take its course, don't mind. Or ignore or downplay its existence, don't bring psychological contradictions and anxiety because of the existence of forced thinking, and don't treat the existence of forced thinking as a serious problem. Don't be afraid of it. Dilution will naturally block the vicious circle caused by it.

4. Enhance psychological quality, that is, the exercise of personality and self-psychological adjustment ability. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is more common in those individuals with poor psychological quality. It is characterized by weak will, lack of effective control over one's thinking activities by consciousness and reason, and weak psychological adjustment ability, which makes it difficult to avoid psychological contradictions caused by compulsive thinking and get rid of the vicious circle caused by compulsive thinking. Only by tempering one's personality and enhancing one's psychological endurance and adjustment ability can one fundamentally overcome obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a very hidden psychological disorder, and the onset time can be as long as 7 years. To avoid this kind of psychological problem among teenagers, parents and schools should pay attention to the psychological development of teenagers at all stages of growth, develop both intellectual and non-intellectual factors, pay attention to the training of rational thinking and the cultivation of irrational thinking, and keep their psychological development balanced.

Silymarin —— The Gospel of Patients with Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and repetitive behavior disorder focusing on the body are characterized by repetitive and irrepressible habits of functional impairment, which are classified as "obsessive-compulsive disorder and related disorders" in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition (DSM-V). Its drug therapy mainly includes serotonin reuptake inhibitors and glutamatergic drugs (such as N- acetylcysteine). However, many individuals have poor response to these drugs, and more effective treatment methods are urgently needed.

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