Obsessive Compulsive Disorder aka OCD is a highly prevalent, chronic disorder that lasts for a long time, where the individual has unwanted, recurring thoughts aka obsessions & or actions aka compulsions that the individual feels compelled to repeat repeatedly. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Treatment in Kolkata is available at Rouse Foundation.
Signs and Symptoms
These OCD symptoms can invade every sphere of life, including work-life, school life, and interpersonal relationships. Obsessions are persistent ideas, urges, or thoughts that interfere with the ability to tolerate them. Some common symptoms are:
- Fear Germs, viruses, contamination, suffocation, being buried alive
- Forbidden or unknown or taboo kind of thoughts about religion, or causing harm
- Hostile anti-social ideas about self as well as others
- Arranging things in a symmetrical manner to create the more perfect appearing environment
Compulsions are nothing but repetitive acts or activities that an OCD patient feels the need to finish following an obsessive fantasy or thought. The most prevalent compulsions are as follows:
- Excessive cleaning activities such as hand washing for a long time and in repeat sequence.
- Unnecessarily ordering or arranging something in a specific manner to achieve greater imaginary equilibrium
- Repeatedly checking on things such as “keys are inside the bag or not,” or whether doors are closed or not, etc. Compulsive counting behavior such as repeatedly counting coins, or how many spoons are there in the spoon holder like that.
One thing to keep in mind is that not all rituals or habits are compulsions. Occasionally everyone double-checks. But in the case of OCD:
- One individual is not able to control the thoughts or the behaviours despite being aware of the thoughts or behaviours being in excess.
- One individual spends a minimum of 1 hour a day on these thoughts or the behaviours
Even after performing things the individual never gets enjoyment or fulfillment or wished-for satisfaction during the ritual or behaviors but gets temporary relief from the nervousness. A person has an increased amount of issues in life because of these thoughts or activities.
Treatments and Therapies
Psychiatrists treat OCD with the help of medication, psychotherapy or a combination of medication & psychotherapy. The majority of the patients are responsive towards these Expert OCD treatment in Kolkata measures but some of them are not.
In some situations, individuals with OCD can have other conditions such as depression, anxiety, or body dysmorphic disorder (where an individual believes a part of the body is abnormal). A psychiatrist must take these symptoms into account while selecting OCD Treatment in Kolkata options.
