What are the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive thinking

At present, many people in society have obsessive-compulsive thinking to varying degrees. Since some people's symptoms are mild, they are often not noticed. Some are more obvious but people don't care. Although obsessive-compulsive thinking will not affect our body, it will affect our normal life to some extent. What are the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive thinking? Let's learn about it together.

Obsessive thinking is one of the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive neurosis, and its main manifestations are: doubting the correctness of one's own behavior, knowing that it is unnecessary but difficult to get rid of, such as doubting the faucet at home is not closed or the door is not locked after going out. Although it has been checked many times and confirmed that everything is done, it still doubts afterwards; sometimes it manifests as an idea appearing in the mind and then involuntarily associating it with another idea, such as when others say "good person", he always thinks of "bad guy", when others say "sacred", he thinks of "dirty", and sometimes the patient's associations are obscene and blasphemous. This kind of uncontrollable association often makes the patient suffer; there are also compulsive thinking and compulsive recollection.

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder all have this experience: their pain lies in the difficulty of restraining certain thoughts that appear in their consciousness, but the harder they try to restrain and eliminate these thoughts, the more obvious the pain becomes.

Some psychologists have proposed the theory of "going with the flow", that is, when patients have obsessive thoughts, they should not resist or restrain themselves, force themselves not to think about it, but go with the flow. If obsessive thoughts appear, just ignore them and let them go. If the patient achieves this step, he will soon be surprised to find that the obsessive thoughts have disappeared, or at least are less painful. Of course, adapting to nature requires patients to understand and practice repeatedly to master it. It is not something that can be done just by saying it. Generally speaking, patients need to go to the doctor for psychological counseling and treatment once a week for 4 to 8 weeks, and also need to complete the assignments assigned by the doctor as required. In the case of obsessive-compulsive disorder, many people cite compulsive hand washing as an example, giving people the illusion that hand washing must be one of the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder, but this is not the case.

Having an underlying compulsion such as obsessive thoughts is common. It is common among people who like to get to the bottom of things. This kind of person always asks boring or temporarily unanswerable questions: such as "Where do I come from, where am I going, why am I always the one who gets hurt, why does a person grow from a fertilized egg into an adult", and "What is success, is there a formula for success?" and then thinks about it over and over again, thinking about it while doing homework, working, and before going to bed. He is different from those who have an exploratory spirit. Those who have exploratory research sometimes give up this idea and even shift to other research areas, but people with obsessive thinking are not like this. If they stop thinking about these problems, they will feel as if the order of their lives is disrupted and they will feel obviously uneasy. Before this problem is solved, I don't want to think about any other problems and I'm too lazy to do anything. However, to ordinary people, this kind of problem seems to be unnecessary to care about or can be solved with just one or two words. The strange questions that patients think about will exist for a long time. Over time, such thoughts will become more and more lingering, and patients will feel very painful and helpless.

In addition, people with obsessive-compulsive thinking are very good at speaking, because they pay too much attention to something, so they do study the issue, but you can find that they have obvious paranoia, a bit of "obsession", and sometimes they seem very ambitious. At this time, we must be careful, but people with this symptom are unaware of it and think they are fighting for a great cause.

I have made some simple statements about the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive thinking. I believe that after reading them, you will have a new understanding of obsessive-compulsive thinking. In fact, if you pay more attention to diverting your attention and maintain a good and optimistic life state in daily life, any adverse symptoms can be overcome. I hope my answer is helpful to you and I wish you good health.