In other articles we tell you what the treatment is for this disorder, here we explain the benefits of accessing them in time.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is one of the most disabling disorders. A person with OCD and without treatment lives in great fear of situations that only occur in their mind that are possible, but not probable.
While a person With treatment you can have a very good adjustment in your other areas because you understand your disorderthat your brain does not produce the serotonin that it should produce and within that understanding you know that what is happening to you has treatment, so you can resort to it and generate a very good quality of life as it is lived by those who do not have OCD.
Is the diagnosis given at a specific age?
Statistics say that OCD is diagnosed between adolescence and approximately 40 years of age, however, In clinical practice it is shown that OCD often begins in childhood, it is just that it is not given the importance it should be given..
The process of self-awareness is thinking about what you think, feeling about what you feel and thinking about what you feel and that increases as we grow.
A child has concrete language until the age of 7, therefore the child could not generate self-awareness processes as an adult would. Compulsive behavior can appear in childhood and if it is not checked it is possible that it will generate great limitations for the person in their adolescence or adulthood.
Are there differences depending on the year in which it is diagnosed?
It is important to identify that we all have a biological body to regulate and that adherence to treatment is different in a young childwho understands that the drug must be consumed to stabilize the central nervous system, to the process that an adult would do who probably thinks he is taking psychiatric medication.
When there is already a diagnosis, the probability that a person will have to take medication for life is very highThat is, in OCD it is not like the person says that in a month it will go away with the help of medication, as would happen in an anxiety disorder, but rather that it will require constant medication.
Should we self-diagnose?
Self-diagnosis is too irresponsible, let’s think about what it would be like if we defined foot pain as low back pain, it should not be done that way.
It is essential that people understand that psychology and psychiatry are careers that require a lot of training. The clinical psychologist spends a lifetime studying, while the psychiatrist is first a doctor, then a specialist and continues training. We cannot generate self-diagnosis because we must understand that there are qualified professionals to make the diagnosis.
We all have obsessions and compulsions, it is one thing to say: “I am having obsessive thoughts, I am having compulsive behavior”, another is to say that I have OCD, that definition is only the responsibility of the specialist.