What Is Compulsive Behavior?

Coercion

Coercion

Coercion

Obsessive-compulsive behavior is often to reduce the anxiety caused by obsessive-compulsive ideas. Patients involuntarily adopt some obedient behaviors. Such as:

1. Compulsory examination: An action taken to reduce the anxiety caused by forced suspicion.

2. Compulsive inquiry: OCD patients often do not trust themselves. In order to eliminate anxiety caused by doubt or deliberate exhaustion, they often ask others or ask others to repeatedly explain or guarantee.

3. Forced cleaning: Repeatedly washing hands, bathing or washing clothes to eliminate the fear of contamination by bacteria or stolen goods. Some patients repeatedly wash their hands with soap and repeatedly cause the skin on the back of the hands to crack or break, but they still wash their hands repeatedly, or they will have very serious anxiety or worry.

4. Compulsive conscious action: refers to the patient to complete a series of complex action behaviors or repeat certain actions to eliminate or reduce anxiety or anxiety caused by compulsive ideas. If the patient has to go out two steps before going back, and then take a step back, so do this several times before going out. Some people put compulsive counts in this category. Some patients have slowed movements due to compulsive conscious actions. For example, when they wake up in the morning, they repeatedly wear and undress for several times until the patient is satisfied. This delays time, unconscious work, or is late.

It should be noted that in some patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder with chronic course, they often eliminate anxiety through certain conscious action behaviors, which become habitual movements over time, but the performance of anti-compulsion gradually disappears. At this time, the patients no longer have Feeling distressed.

In addition, patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder have normal or general intelligence levels, are usually quiet, think hard, and have more severe family control in childhood. They may have acute onset in some sudden events, and some may slowly start under long-term excessive tension and fatigue. disease. However, about two-thirds of the onset is slow, the course is relatively long, and the symptoms are mild and severe.