Recently, the Daily Mail reported that the former British beauty pageant winner suffered from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder for 10 years. Now she spends 30 hours a week cleaning her room, saying that she can’t help cleaning the toilet six times a day and scrubbing the sink three to four times a day. And before entering each room, you must clean your body with a vacuum cleaner to remove dust and bacteria before entering. Faced with such a move, the netizen said: “it’s crazy to just listen to her and can’t help mourning for her partner who lives with her.”
Experts said that this kind of “cleaning the body with a vacuum cleaner” is a typical behavioral obsessive-compulsive disorder, and excessive cleanliness really needs to be paid attention to. According to statistics, about 50% of obsessive-compulsive patients show “excessive cleanliness”. Experts also said that any obsessive-compulsive disorder has hidden internal conflicts and wrong ways of thinking. If this conflict is not resolved and these wrong ways of thinking are not corrected, it is difficult to eliminate the obsession with cleanliness.
What are the symptoms of OCD
1. Constantly force yourself to clean.
This situation is generally called “cleanliness Mania”. That is, he constantly forces himself to wash his hands, clothes, daily necessities and bedding. In clinical practice, this compulsive cleansing behavior is the most typical OCD that occurs frequently and has the most distinctive symptoms.
2. Continuous compulsive counting
Some patients with behavioral obsessive-compulsive disorder will have compulsive memory of telephone numbers, car license plate numbers, house number, bank note numbers, and numbers on bills and documents. One of the patients has this situation. He is particularly sensitive to the number of five digits and the number of seven at the end, and produces compulsive memory behavior. In order to remember, he also copied the numbers into dozens of notebooks repeatedly.
3. Mandatory inspection of items
Some OCD patients will repeatedly check whether the doors and windows, gas, lights, TV dramas, air conditioners, etc. are turned off. In addition, they will also confirm daily letters, lessons, documents and other information for many times to see if there is any error. These are typical compulsive inspection behaviors.
4. Ritual actions that are compulsive to oneself
Patients who have suffered from OCD for a long time will often have some ritual actions that are compulsive to themselves. They will formalize and model their actions, and then form a special ritual with sequence. For example, when you meet tables and chairs, you must detour from the left side, and you must advance 5 times and retreat 3 times during walking.
For those who have compulsive behavior, psychological experts provide several self alleviating methods:
psychological suggestion for example, I suspect that the door is not locked properly. After I locked the door for the first time, I stood next to the car and warned myself repeatedly: “I have locked the door. Now turn around and leave. It’s OK!” I repeated it several times and insisted on doing it.
note reminder put a note in a prominent position on your desk, which reads “I’ve done great! Great!” Remind yourself not to pursue perfection too much.
self statistics make a statistical table to see what aspects of compulsive behavior you will repeat in the end of the day, and record the number of repetitions. And set goals for yourself, and ask yourself to gradually reduce the number of compulsions.
note: the above methods are aimed at people with mild symptoms. They must be implemented comprehensively to achieve better results. If it is found that OCD has affected their normal life, it is recommended to recover and adjust with the help of a psychologist.
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