Obsessive-compulsive disorder:

Imagine that your mind is stuck on a specific idea or image, and then this idea or image is repeated in your mind over and over again. No matter what you do, you do not want these ideas, for they are like a torrent. Along with these ideas, intense feelings of anxiety come to you.

Anxiety is the warning system in your brain. When you feel anxious, you will feel danger. This feeling of anxiety tells you that you must react, protect yourself, do something.

You may realize that fear is meaningless because it does not seem reasonable, but because you still feel it very real and growing inside you. So why would your mind lie?

Why do you feel these feelings if they are not true? Feelings don't lie, right?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Unfortunately, if you have obsessive-compulsive disorder, the alarm system in your brain is not working properly. It may warn you that you are in danger when you are not. When scientists compared images of the brains of a group of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, they saw that there were some areas in the brain that differed. About the brains of people who do not have obsessive-compulsive disorder.

What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is thoughts and images that enter a person’s mind in a recurring manner. A healthy person can push them away, prevent them from recurring, and not let them overwhelm him. Either in a medical condition, he is not strong enough to repel them or prevent them from recurring, so she takes hold of him and pesters him, and he tries hard to resist them to no avail. The more he resists these thoughts, the more anxiety increases in him. He knows with certainty that they are his own thoughts and are not alien to him, and he knows that they are trivial, and yet he is forced to think. He falls into it involuntarily, to the point that he becomes depressed if it becomes clear to him that his work and future will be affected as a result.

Obsessive thoughts:

Obsessive thoughts are a group of continuous, controlling, and continuous thoughts and images that intrude on the patient’s mind, haunt them, and accompany him with his inability to repel, expel, or get rid of them. The patient suffers a lot from it because of its strangeness and uselessness, and it causes a lot of anxiety and inconvenience, and certain phrases or a certain name that is constantly repeated remain on his mind. Also, the patient may imagine terrible things about the Divine Essence, the prophets, religion, or morals that cannot be repelled, or compulsively curse things that are sacred and dear to the soul, such as cursing God Almighty or cursing the prophets, while being unable to stop these thoughts, God forbid.

Compulsive actions:

Compulsive actions are conscious mental actions and compulsive repetitive behaviors in response to obsessive thoughts to relieve or prevent anxiety and discomfort resulting from those thoughts. The patient cannot resist them and they occupy him for a long time, and he is dissatisfied with them and does not like them, especially since he does not feel any benefit from their repetition, but he is constantly oppressed. Its work and doing it.

Compulsive obsessions always come to prevent or avoid some frightening events imagined in the patient's mind, such as expected misfortune, misfortunes, afflictions, death, or illness.

Causes of obsessive-compulsive disorder:  

- Biological factors :

There is some evidence indicating that obsessive-compulsive disorder is the result of a chemical change that occurs in the affected person's body, or in the performance of his brain.

There is also evidence that obsessive-compulsive disorder may be linked to certain genetic factors, but the genes responsible for obsessive-compulsive disorder have not yet been identified and diagnosed.

- Environmental factors:

Some researchers believe that obsessive-compulsive disorder results from habits and behaviors acquired over time.

- Insufficient level of serotonin:

Serotonin is one of the chemicals necessary for the brain to function. If the level of serotonin is insufficient and below what is necessary, this is likely to contribute to the development of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

It has been shown that the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder decrease and their severity decreases in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder who take medications that increase the effectiveness of serotonin.

- Streptococcal bacteria in the throat:

There is research claiming that obsessive-compulsive disorder has developed in certain children following laryngitis caused by streptococcal bacteria in the larynx.

But opinions are divided about the credibility of this research, and it must be supported by more evidence until it is recognized that streptococcus bacteria in the throat can cause obsessive-compulsive disorder.