Obsessive Compulsive Disorder often manifests itself as a grandiose form of regular emotions and behaviors.
Everyone feels anxiety, uncertainty, fear, as well as general uneasiness at different points in their lives.
These emotions and behaviors help people stay safe, feel in control, and help them overcome difficult situations.
People with OCD, however, deal with these emotions to such a degree and frequency that it becomes a problem rather than a positive thing.
These behaviors become extreme which can prevent them from living a normal life as well as bringing them severe distress which can be devastating to the sufferer and the people close to them.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a form of anxiety disorder that people deal with.
Sufferers of this can become preoccupied with things that normal people would put out of their minds with relative ease.
Some examples of this would be: getting stuck on thoughts of whether or not something is unclean, harmful, or is considered wrong to them in some form or another.
Sufferers of this disorder also find themselves having scary or upsetting thoughts that just pop into their heads called obsessions.
For the sufferer, these thoughts can be incredibly hard to put out of their minds.
Something that people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder deal with is the strong desire to perform specific tasks repeatedly.
This is known as performing rituals or dealing with compulsions.
This is done in an attempt to remove the unwanted thoughts from the sufferers' minds.
This can also be a way to try to reinforce in their minds that they have done everything possible to guarantee their safety, kept everything clean, as well as making sure that they've done what they consider to be the right thing.
By taking these steps, the sufferer is essentially trying to guarantee that nothing bad will happen.
In some cases of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, the obsessions and compulsions can seem related to each other in certain ways.
An example of this would be such as a sufferer who fears illness and a lack of cleanliness.
Their obsession is on the thought of a lack of cleanliness but this can be accompanied by the ritual of the sufferer washing their hands all the in an effort to thwart any threat of dirtiness.
Other behaviors you might see in a sufferer such as this would be a general avoidance in touching items that they may consider possibly unclean as well as to compulsively clean their surroundings.
Sometimes people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder deal with compulsions that are seemingly unrelated to the fear they are attempting to overcome.
An example of this would be as if the sufferer felt that if they didn't complete a specific task such as rearranging objects in a specific way that someone they love could end up getting really sick or even die.
Oftentimes the sufferer understands how odd these compulsions are and can end up attempting to hide it because of its peculiar nature.
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