Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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"I know my hands are clean. I know that I have touched nothing dangerous. However, I doubt my perception. Soon, if I do not wash, a mind numbing, searing anxiety will cripple me. A feeling of stickiness will begin to spread from the point of contamination and I will be lost in a place I do not want to go. So I wash until the feeling is gone, until the anxiety subsides. Then I feel defeated. So I do less and less, my world becomes smaller and smaller and lonelier by the day" Healthy Place: OCD Community. The writer of...
know their thoughts and compulsions are irrational and appear crazy. Many would ask, "Why don't they just stop over-thinking and giving into their compulsion?" "The core part of the problem is that the individual needs to be absolutely certain about something," explained Grayson. "The problem is that they are too smart to be certain. For every logical answer there is a 'what if' part as well." Vendantam OCD is not a disorder where the sufferer can simply stop. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a dysfunction in the brain, just like a heart attack is a dysfunction of the heart Cronin.

know their thoughts and compulsions are irrational and appear crazy. Many would ask, "Why don't they just stop over-thinking and giving into their compulsion?" "The core part of the problem is that the individual needs to be absolutely certain about something," explained Grayson. "The problem is that they are too smart to be certain. For every logical answer there is a 'what if' part as well." Vendantam OCD is not a disorder where the sufferer can simply stop. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a dysfunction in the brain, just like a heart attack is a dysfunction of the heart Cronin.
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