What should I do if I have obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Caring for hygiene is a very good habit for people, because the quality of sanitary conditions has a great impact on physical health. However, some people are so obsessed with maintaining hygiene that it reaches a crazy level. This symptom is called mysophobia, and it is a phenomenon that requires intervention. Let’s take a look at what to do if you have mysophobia? I hope everyone can understand this aspect.

Generally speaking, mysophobia means being too fond of cleanliness. It is a good thing for a person to love cleanliness, but if one pays too much attention to cleanliness to the point that it affects normal study, work and life, especially social interactions, it is considered mysophobia. There are different levels of mysophobia. In milder cases, mysophobia is simply a bad habit. It can be corrected through desensitization therapy and cognitive therapy. More serious mysophobia is a psychological illness and a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder. You should seek help from a psychologist.

The harm caused by mysophobia outweighs the benefits. Bacteria are an essential part of the human living environment, and the many bacteria we come into contact with on a daily basis are beneficial to our lives and health. If sterilization is carried out indiscriminately, it may give the green light to harmful pathogens with strong resistance, adaptability and invasiveness, destroying the microbial balance in the human body and the natural environment, allowing harmful super bacteria to survive and multiply in large numbers. In psychological counseling clinics, there are many people with obsessive-compulsive disorder who are also prone to oral ulcers, diarrhea, colds, pharyngitis and other diseases.

The key to cognitive therapy is educational correction. Educational correction starts from several aspects:

1. Find out the causes of mysophobia and use scientific knowledge to eliminate misunderstandings.

2. Let the patient change his way of thinking, make plans, and do the main things first.

However, it should be noted that under certain stimulating circumstances it may be more likely to develop into obsessive-compulsive disorder. If the mysophobia has obviously affected your own or others' lives, then you need to seek professional treatment. If the impact is not particularly serious, psychological treatment can be the first choice, mainly cognitive behavioral therapy. If it has obviously affected your life, study and work, and obvious emotional problems have occurred, then drug treatment is also needed. "