Obsessions and compulsions push people into a repetitive cycle of thoughts and behaviors. These behaviors imprison and restrict human beings. Individuals with obsessive and compulsive disorder feel uneasy due to repeated and stressful ideas and thoughts, fears, or images that they cannot control, and their perspective on life changes. Some of the rituals that these ideas and thoughts have created and cause the urgent need to perform these rituals. Rituals are performed to prevent obsessed thoughts and ideas or to attempt to distract them from the mind. A temporary solution is obtained with rituals. Since obsessive thoughts can recur, the individual must repeat the ritual as soon as thoughts appear. The cycle of obsessions can take a lot of time during the day. It can prevent dailylife. People with this disorder may realize that their obsession are unreal. However, since it is extremely difficult for them to stop themselves in this direction, it becomes impossible for them to cope with these feelings and thoughts.
How are the Symptoms of Obsessions (OCD)?
It is known that there are common obsession symptoms. These common signs of obsession are a feeling of filth or contamination, a feeling that it might harm someone else, an anxiety about making mistakes, fear of being disgraced, fear of being sinful, a desire for order, symmetry and perfection, a feeling of doubt and insecurity. in the form.
There are also common symptoms of compulsion. These common symptoms are repeated showering or washing hands, reluctance to shake hands or touch the doorknob, constantly controlling things such as locks and stoves, counting while performing routine tasks, constant desire to order, and constantly repetition, doing things in specified numbers, collecting things that have no value and expanding them by accumulating.
What are the Causes of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
The causes of obsession and obsession have not been fully determined. However, research shows us that biological and environmental factors predispose to the emergence of this situation.
The brain is known to be a complex structure. There are nerve cells called neurons that the human body needs for its normal functioning. Neurons communicate through electrical signals. Researchers think there is a link between the decrease in the level of a neurotransmitter called serotonin and the development of OCD. There are also some findings indicating that imbalances in serotonin are passed from parents to children. This situation gives us the signals that the disease may be genetic. At the same time, certain areas of the brain can be severely affected by serotonin imbalance. This causes obsessive and compulsive disorder to occur. It is said that some environmental factors and negative events in family life also cause the emergence of this disease. Harassment, violence, life changes, death of a valued person, and worries about life are situations that cause obsessive and compulsive disorderIt would be advisable to for apply professional help as soon as possible.