Adolescents must be accompanied by a parent.
In our daily lives, we occasionally hear people say, "I have obsessive-compulsive disorder, I must put things in order", or "I always check the door lock repeatedly before going out". However, these behaviors, while coercive-compulsive, are not the same as medical obsessive-compulsive disorder. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is actually a serious mental health problem that has a serious impact on the patient's quality of life and is a disease that requires professional attention.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder mainly includes obsessive thoughts and obsessive behaviors. Obsessive-compulsive thoughts are recurring, uncontrollable, intrusive thoughts, urges, or images that appear in the person's mind, often disturbing, such as fear of contamination, harming others, or excessive fear of making mistakes. Obsessive-compulsive behaviors are repetitive behaviors or ritualized actions that patients are forced to perform in order to reduce the anxiety caused by obsessive thoughts, such as washing hands frequently, checking repeatedly, and arranging objects.
This symptom is not a manifestation of an individual's "excessive pursuit of perfection" or "special lifestyle habits", but is the result of dysfunction of the brain's neural circuits. Brain science research in recent years has found that patients with OCD have abnormal functional activity in brain regions such as the anterior cingulate gyrus, caudate nucleus, and orbitofrontal lobe, making it difficult for them to deal with fear and anxiety as normal people.
For OCD, we need to be clear: it is a mental disorder that can be effective. The method mainly covers two parts: drug and psychological. Medications** are mainly drugs that use drugs such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors to adjust chemical imbalances in the brain; Psychological** focuses on cognitive behavior**, especially exposure and response prevention**, which helps patients gradually face and adapt to anxiety-inducing situations, and at the same time learn coping strategies to change compulsive behaviors.
In general, OCD is not caused by personal personality traits or habits, but is a psychological illness with a physiological basis, which requires scientific cognition and professional medical intervention. If you or your relatives and friends have similar symptoms, do not ignore or misunderstand them, and seek help from a psychiatrist as soon as possible to improve your quality of life through a reasonable plan and return to a healthy life track.