Does it have a cure? This and more doubts about this condition that, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), OCD is a disorder that, if not received the necessary support, can be highly disabling.
OCD can be complicated, but if we talk about severity, all disorders are serious to the extent that they limit, they can become complicated if there is no adequate treatment for the thoughts or compulsions and the person begins to develop a psychotic state.
In this state there is a disconnection from reality and delirium begins to appear and, clearly, it is more difficult to attend to it compared to thinking. Beyond the severity, it must be understood that just as I, for example, today have gastritis and tomorrow, the day after tomorrow too, in five years I can develop gastric cancer, I would tell you the same thing if today you have an obsessive thought that does not stop with the As hours and days pass, you can enter a psychotic state that takes you to a psychiatric center. This can be prevented by taking therapy on time.
Treatment
In people with OCD there is a notable decrease in serotonin levels, therefore, in principle there must be follow-up by psychiatry where, from antidepressants, a regulation is generated in the biological body that allows the person to reduce rumination and anxiety levels. In psychology, a specialist who has a cognitive-behavioral approach is recommended. In some cases, occupational therapists should be required when there is a high level of impairment in basic daily tasks.
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When to go to the specialist?
On the one hand there is the individual factor and on the other the social being. In the individual factor we refer to if I identify that I am having thoughts that are not rational all the time, how do I identify them? All of us throughout life have obsessive thoughts, or perhaps who has not thought: “what would happen if I killed my enemy?” Taking it into action is different. Thoughts are not behavior, they are thoughts.
If the thinking is ruminative and I can’t stop thinking about it, it is important to go to the specialist.
On the other hand, in the social being, if you are the companion and you identify that, for example, or your wife must check 20 times that she did turn off the gas, or if your son changes his shoes or can’t stand having a speck of dirt, that’s where you should tell him that he should go to the specialist.
People with any type of mental disorder suffer a lot, it is not easy to have a mental disorder, I think the most important thing is to accompany, not invade the other, not to say: “hey, you have OCD because I saw an interview and that’s what you have”, but rather to say: “well, from the accompaniment, how do you feel when suddenly you don’t turn off the tap? There I surely make an opening so that the person tells me: “I feel very bad, I feel very sad” and that is the moment to propose: “why don’t we seek help together? If you want, I will do it, or if If you want, we’ll do it together, or you’ll do it.”
It always starts from emotional validation and empathy, without empathy there is no connection, so more than saying to the other, I feel like you have something because I saw this, it’s more how you suddenly feel when you don’t do it and in that response of I feel wrong, you can tell him: “I offer you my hand so that between the two of us we can seek help.”
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