Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - OCD Part 2

armstrong,mozart and their obsessiveness is not causing life disrupting anxiety as it does in OCD nor stopping them thinking about anything else.

Tthe psychologist certainly has a very valid argument that drugs are used to suppress underlying psychological issues sometimes, but he does not seem to acknowledge any type of physical cause for any mental issue. That to me sounds completely irrational. The brain is a biological organ like any other and is thus susceptible to physical problems.

well put,so very true. however....
i had referred to someone "checking door knobs" vs. pulling my weeds, or some other productive action. Pulling weeds or yardwork is not a "bad" task/job. It's funny NO one ever "chooses" them..as their "obsession" ..instead they do mundane repative tasks like "door knobs",or touching a vase 17 times before taking 5 steps northward in green shoes,etc,etc As for Lance and Donald ! We NEVER seem to condemn things affiliated with HUGE amounts of money/fame,etc.

I think the answer to your question is that when people are compulsive about something that is considered good, they don't get labeled. Mozart was compulsive about music, Einstein was compulsive about physics, Donald Trump is compulsive about making money.

Very successful people tend to obsess about the thing that they are successful about. Look at Lance Armstrong, the dude trains hours and hours every day to be the best.

serious question here.. Why doesn't someone obsess and compulsively pull the weeds in my yard every day,over an over ? Why is it always something pointless like "checking a doorknob" over an over ? I'm serious about that...

OCD seems to be far more about having general anxiety below the surface, or even at the surface, that is broadly spread, which the individual then focuses into certain "fears" or "anxieties" that become obsession, and compulsions are then a way of controlling one's fear, in an odd way. Some are fortunate enough to get out of the O-B pattern and feel ok, others, like myself, are not. Anxiety remains & pops up in a different obsession, or goe b ack into the old one.

I actually talk about that in a video called "re: How to overcome addiction"

I have been with serious OCD. Body checking every 5 minutes. But at this point, Im starting to control it (maybe it can help) is dont fight against the "tought" more you fight, more it will be there.

Thank you so much for your video's they answered alot of my questions.

thank you very much. great stuff.

I really thought this was a good string of ideas you gave out, I haven't had proper contact with a psychologist since I was made to have adult mental healthcare.

I agree professor, i've always rejected when people insist that i have an illness. It has always been obvious that my OCD is my own deliberate action. No body orders me to wash my hands except me lol

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I don't think anyone claims that it doesn't exists/is not debilitating.

Compulsive behavior isn't always something that is necessarily visible or even somethng in which the person who is suffering from OCD disorder is aware. Parents can't always detect what's going on. I feel that your statement that OCD isn't a "disease" is simply wordplay and semantics. Call it what you will. I could care less. But it's there--it's debillitating, horrifying, and sometimes uncontrollable. Call it whatever you want to, but it exists.