OCD

OCD is an anxiety disorder characterized by uncontrolled,unwanted, thoughts and repetitive behaviors or rituals that you feel compelled to perform. When you have OCD, you feel irritated by your compulsive disorders. An example of a behavior of OCD would be washing your hands exsesively. OCD causes the brain to get stuck on a particular thought or urge. This causes you to get very annoyed and sometimes causes serious cases of depression. You don't want to have these ideas or behaviors, but you cant control them. But there is a wide variety of effective help out there. OCD stands for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Obsessions are uncontrollable thoughts, images or impulses that happen over and over again in your mind. These thoughts are distracting and sometimes even disturbing. Compulsions are rituals that you feel driven to act on again and again. Compulsions are usually performed to get rid of obsessions, but it usually only makes it worse. Most people with OCD fall into one of the following categories:
 * Washers-afriad of contamination
 * checkers-repeatedly check things (oven turned off, etc.)
 * doubters and sinners-are afraid of everything that is not perfect or if they did something terrible, that isn't bad at all.
 * counters and arrangers-are obsessed with order and symmetry.
 * hoarders-fear that something bad will happen if they throw something away. They hoard things they don't need.

If you have obsessive or compulsive behaviors, that does not mean you have OCD. If one you know anyone with OCD, the best things to do to help them through their thoughts is find the humor in their behaviors. Also, do not scold the person, make negative comments, or scold the person. Next, be as kind the person as possible. Doing these things will help the sufferer become more detached.

Some OCD symptoms are...
 * Fear of being contaminated by germs or dirt or contaminating others.
 * Fear of causing harm to yourself or others.
 * Intrusive sexually explicit or violent thoughts and images.
 * Excessive focus on religious or moral ideas.
 * Fear of losing or not having things you might need.
 * Order and symmetry: the idea that everything must line up “just right.”
 * Superstitions; excessive attention to something considered lucky or unlucky.