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Obsessive-compulsive disorder
It is a disease that may affect anyone at any age and in which between 1-3% of people may be infected, and this disease is the patient's belief in a certain thing or a certain idea that remains associated with it and which becomes with the passage of time from his awareness, and this disease is called compulsive because of The ability of a person to remove them from his thoughts and abandon them, which in turn is the patient by repeating a permanent sentence or a musical tone at all times that remains in his mind and that works on dispersing his thoughts and impedes his thought process, and this disease has a great impact on the individual from a practical and social point of view and completely hinders him from All that is beautiful in his life.
Everyone falls under the trap of doubts and some beliefs that are related to pessimism and optimism, which are normal things, but the increase in these matters, such as doing things things that do not make sense for long periods, or for example washing his hands or singing a song alone for a long time which is accompanied by thinking of the mind With a certain thing that he does not want to change, which remains adjacent to him in thinking, in this case the patient must be diagnosed and treated because this disease is related to the brain, and to treat this disease a person must change some of his behaviors and sometimes it may require treatment with some drugs.
Symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Unwanted general behavior or thoughts that occur frequently and frequently several times a day, and among these symptoms such as making sure to close the door several times and repeatedly at the same time or repetitively doing a certain thing from times, such as the number of times of showering or bathing, or the process of organizing and arranging things Very accurate to the direction of obsession, the pictures and things that appear on a person for hours, days, or long months, and the emergence of violence, such as killing and harming others, or words and sentences that do not continuously carry meaning in the person, or seeing a specific person and remembering the bad attitude towards him, Or remember things that are of no value or importance.
The causes of obsessive-compulsive disorder
There is actually no specific cause for OCD, and researchers searched for these thoughts and found problems related to the inability to communicate with the frontal molecule of the brain, which is responsible for feeling fear and anxiety in the deeper part of the brain, which is responsible for one's ability to start and stop thoughts that use these complex compounds. In the brain, it is the substance of serotonin, and for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disease, drugs are taken in which the substance of serotonin in the brain is increased, which leads to improvement of those with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Celebrities with obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Leonardo DiCaprio .
- Michael Jackson .
- David Beckham .
- Howard Hughes.
- Howie Mandel.
- Cameron Diaz .
- Charlie Sheen.
