Dr ali ahmad
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Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is clinically diagnosed as an anxiety disorder and affects up to 4 percent of adults and children. People who suffer from this debilitating disorder have distressing and obsessive thoughts, which usually cause them to perform repetitive behaviours such as counting silently or washing their hands.
Though OCD sufferers understand that their obsessions are unrealistic, they find it stressful to put these intrusive thoughts out of their minds. Those who suffer from OCD develop strict behavioral patterns that become extremely time-consumi and begin to interfere with daily routines. Many people with OCD delay seeking treatment because they are ashamed of their own thoughts and behaviour.
OCD sufferers experience worries that are both unreasonable and excessive and that act as a perpetual source of internal stress and agony. Fear of dirt and contamination are very common obsessive thoughts. The obsession with orderliness and symmetry is also common. In other cases, persistent thoughts are centred on doubts , such as whether or not a door is locked or a stove is turned off. Impulses, such as to swear in public or to pull a fire alarm, are other types of OCD symptoms. In order to be diagnosed with OCD, a sufferer must exhibit obsessions and/ or compulsions that take up to a considerable amount of time (at least one hour a day).
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Dr Ali Ahmad
Email: [email protected]
3 August 2015
Though OCD sufferers understand that their obsessions are unrealistic, they find it stressful to put these intrusive thoughts out of their minds. Those who suffer from OCD develop strict behavioral patterns that become extremely time-consumi and begin to interfere with daily routines. Many people with OCD delay seeking treatment because they are ashamed of their own thoughts and behaviour.
OCD sufferers experience worries that are both unreasonable and excessive and that act as a perpetual source of internal stress and agony. Fear of dirt and contamination are very common obsessive thoughts. The obsession with orderliness and symmetry is also common. In other cases, persistent thoughts are centred on doubts , such as whether or not a door is locked or a stove is turned off. Impulses, such as to swear in public or to pull a fire alarm, are other types of OCD symptoms. In order to be diagnosed with OCD, a sufferer must exhibit obsessions and/ or compulsions that take up to a considerable amount of time (at least one hour a day).
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Dr Ali Ahmad
Email: [email protected]
3 August 2015
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