Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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of depression for six months before he finally had the courage to bring up his other ¡¥secret¡¦ problem. Since childhood he had a compulsion to count things. He had to count the letters in words and in people¡¦s names. If the letters added up to any number except 9, he felt a sense of release and could stop counting. He knew it was silly but nevertheless he had a fear that if he did not do this, something bad could happen to his mom or dad. He seemed unable to stop doing this. He did poorly in school because he was distracted by his secret compulsion to count letters when he should be paying attention to the teacher¡¦s lessons. He was later bothered as a teenager by upsetting sacrilegious mental images when he was in church. Having these sacrilegious images made him feel that he had lost his souls for eternity.

In addition to these two problems, he was having trouble driving. When he felt a bump as his tire rolled over a little stone, he would think that he may have ...

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unable to control the content of his/her obsession which, the individual feels is not the kind of thought that he/she would expect to have. However, the individual is able to recognize that the obsessions are a product of his/her own mind.

The most common obsession are:-

„h repeated thoughts about contamination (becoming contaminated by shaking hands)
„h repeated doubts (wondering whether one has hurt someone in a traffic accident or having left the door unlocked)
„h a need to have things in a particular order, aggressive or horrific impulses (to hurt one¡¦s child)
„h sexual imagery (recurrent pornographic image)

The individual with obsessions usually attempts to ignore or ...

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