OCD Treatment

OCD stands for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a mental health condition that can be painful and disruptive.

People with OCD are often plagued by relentless, unwanted thoughts or uncomfortable, cruel visions of violent and disturbing images. The thoughts and images might be disturbing thoughts about other people dying or an overwhelming sense that they’ve made a mistake or done something bad when nothing has actually happened.

Because they want these thoughts to go away but don’t have any control over them, they become obsessed with whatever it is they can do about it – repeatedly checking the stove multiple times before bed because of a fear that they left some food on the burner; counting objects compulsively, or washing their hands excessively to get rid of germs.

We don’t know the exact answer to this question, but we have a lot of evidence that it isn’t your fault. Changes in brain chemicals like serotonin or dopamine may play a part in depression. Alcoholism and drug abuse can also change levels of these chemicals which might cause depression.

It’s also possible that stress hormones at work or home are causing someone to feel depressed since high levels of stress hormones release cortisol into the body which interferes with memory recall, immune system function as well as reducing feelings of pleasure and leading to sleep disturbances. Trauma experienced during childhood could raise lifelong risks for experiencing depression later on in life as well.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder with strong obsessive and compulsive features. It can seriously impact a person’s day-to-day life, often getting worse as time goes on without treatment.

Symptoms include recurring thoughts that are unwanted and cause the sufferer distress, leading to repetitive behaviors related to trying to suppress or neutralize these thoughts.

The most common obsessions relate to dirt and contamination (although other obsessions, such as hoarding, may also affect sufferers).

Sufferers will compulsively wash their body or clothes, or avoid touching anything altogether in order to reduce anxiety around contamination fears. The compulsion takes up much of one’s attention throughout the day.