Saturday, November 26, 2011

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Resource: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001926/

OCD is more common than most people may think. It is an anxiety disorder that causes people to have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, and obsessions that may push them to do something. The person will carry out obsessive behaviors that will dissolve their thoughts only for temporary relief. These activities they perform must be done or great stress would fall upon the person with OCD. Most of the time, OCD causes symptoms around the age of 30. There have been brain abnormalities found with people with OCD, but no real link can be officially said. Some symptoms of OCD are obsessions related around drugs or to mental illness, and it can also be obsessions that causes major distress or interfere with everyday life. An example is like reorganizing your shelf of action figures if any of them are touched. Treatment is through medication and therapy. Some medication are Celexa or Prozac. Although cognitive therapy has been shown with the greatest results with this disorder.

This page of information only gave the most common or notable basics of the disorder. This information may be enough to a curious man, but it need more information to consider it more useful. Also, the page could help someone who has OCD help to what they could possibly do next.

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