April 25th, 2008
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive compulsive disorder in medical terms is referred as psychiatric anxiety disorder, which is related to the characteristics of a person’s obsessive, intrusive thoughts, distressing and other related compulsions. Obsessive compulsion disorder is, let’s rather say an illness which makes a person do unwanted things against will. These may include unwanted thoughts or behaviors, which are repeated again and again. For example for a person brushing teeth after every meal is a habit for you, this is an obsession. You may not agree but we come across a lot of obsessions in our daily life. Another example is checking if all the lights in the house are off or not before leaving the house. Even if you have checked it once you want to do it again. Later while just sitting in the car you might again go check it. These kinds of thoughts come again and again.