alert! 5 signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder

1. Patients will have compulsive inspection

Often occurs with obsessive doubts. The patient is not reassured about things that he knows have been done well, and he checks them repeatedly, such as repeatedly checking the locked doors and windows, and repeatedly checking the written bills, letters or manuscripts.

2. Patients may experience compulsive rituals

Before daily activities, you have to do a set of actions with a certain procedure. For example, before going to bed, you have to take off your clothes and shoes according to a certain procedure and put them in a fixed pattern. Otherwise, you will feel uneasy and have to put on your clothes and shoes again and take them off according to the procedure.

3. Patients may experience compulsive rumination

Repeatedly thinking about natural phenomena or events in daily life, knowing that it is meaningless, but unable to restrain oneself, such as repeatedly thinking: "Why does the house face south instead of north?"

4. The patient will have compulsive intentions

In certain situations, the patient has an idea that he knows is contrary to the current situation, but he cannot control the emergence of this intention and is very distressed. For example, when a mother walks to the river with her child in her arms, she suddenly has the idea of ​​throwing the child into the river. Although no corresponding action takes place, the patient becomes very nervous and frightened.

5. Patients may experience obsessive-compulsive thinking

Two opposing words or concepts appear repeatedly in the mind, causing distress and tension. For example, when you think of "support", "oppose" immediately appears; when you mention "good guy", you think of "bad guy", etc.