What is obsessive and what is its treatment

Written By The HealthMeth Team - Updated On Saturday, May 1, 2021 1:00 PM

The definition of obsessive

Waswas is known in Arabic dictionaries as a five-point source derived from the quadruple verb and waswas in the sense of speaking with urgency. Exceeding the natural limit in thinking, so he controls a person in all his esoteric and overt conversations.


The obsession may be a temporary and occasional obsession, in which an idea takes hold of a person and then disappears, and it may always be called in this case a psychological disease and of course needs treatment for fear that it will escalate into something unfortunate for its consequences, for example if a person is afflicted with his religion, the matter may lead to doubt Muslims and ideological constants.


Obsessive symptoms

  • Asking many questions and thinking repeatedly about the same topics; Such as: Who created God, how God can watch all people at once, and the increase in religious concerns.
  • Fear of infection and diseases, and this leads to an exaggeration in hygiene, and an excessive concern for purity, whether physical purity or purity of the place, which leads to hatred of contact with others, or touching things, and hatred of personal excretions.
  • Doubt about switching off devices, making sure of that again and again, and doubting whether prayer is being performed, or performing it to the fullest.
  • Excessive fear of death, of the lawful and the prohibited, and of violating the sanctities.
  • Optimism or pessimism with a number or some color to the point of believing that something is inevitable.
  • Aggressive thoughts of harming the other, or an unethical sexual act with them, resulting in feelings of inferiority and depression.
  • Exaggeration and exaggeration in trying to pronounce the letter exits correctly when saying Allahu Akbar, or reading Al-Fatiha.
  • Exaggeration in setting the direction of the Qiblah.
  • Doubt about whether the carcass was slaughtered in the Islamic manner, and correctly.
  • Feeling of responsibility in a large way, and this results in the restoration of conversations with others to make sure not to lie.


Causes of OCD

  • A pathological cause related to the lack of serotonin in the brain, which leads to behavioral disorders, including obsessive disorder, and specialists discovered that treatment in this case is feasible compared to others.
  • A genetic cause related to the presence of the disease in the family history, and this cause is still being studied by researchers.
  • A social cause related to the social environment surrounding the person, which causes him a disturbance in the psychological state, starting with anxiety and severe depression.


Obsessive treatment

The treatment period does not take place overnight, rather it needs five years in some cases, and this period varies from one patient to another depending on the case, the cause, and the extent of response, and the treatment methods can be summarized as follows:

  • Treatment with pharmacological drugs; For example: anti-depressants that aim to increase serotonin.
  • Psychotherapy by talking with the patient about the causes, and trying to find solutions, and this may require a change of place, work, or search for anything in order to make the patient happy.
  • Seeking refuge in God from the accursed Satan, and seeking deliverance from God Almighty, for God alone can lift the calamity and bring prosperity.
  • If the disease is related to causes related to religion, such as purity, for example, then a Shariah rule must be clarified for the patient, which is that certainty does not disappear with doubt, rather it needs certainty like it.