Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

munchkeen

Obsessive-compulsive disorder??? Pernah dengar tak? Pernah korang ada masalah untuk menyusun sesuatu atas meja ke.. ataupon taktau nak susun benda yg mudah sperti buku2 atas rak atau susun kasut yg bersepah kt rumah ...??? Aku selalu ada masalah ni macam nak susun alat tulis,buku2,cd ataupon benda2 lain dan menyusun ikut manayg lebih penting atau susun ikut subjek tu sendiri..( buku dengan buku... cd dengan cd) ..... Secara umum.... penyakit nie boleh diterangkan sperti nie...

" Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder most commonly characterized by a subject's obsessive, distressing, intrusive thoughts and related compulsions (tasks or "rituals") which attempt to neutralize the obsessions. Thus it is an anxiety disorder. It is listed by the World Health Organization as one of the top ten most disabling illnesses in terms of lost income and diminished quality of life.  "


Antara personaliti yang ada masalah seperti nie ialah David Beckham....

" In an 3 April 2006 interview, Beckham told The Daily Mail that he suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. "

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_beckham


aku bukanlah peminat david beckham nie... pasal aku hardcore Liverpool....  but topic nie aku rasa nak kena bincangkan balik pasal antara sedar atau tidak.... bidang nie tak byk diterangkan secara serius oleh masyarakat Malaysia.... sedangkan kelemahan ini boleh menyebabkan banyak masalah membabitkan psikologi,prestasi kerja, social-life dan sbgnya...

eh.. lupa tanya... topik nie dah pernah ada ke???

seribulan

besa dgr Obsessive Compulsive Behavior (OCB)...sama larr gak ni...yg ni not so negatif...discuss on the pattern people have neutrally...the behavior...e.g. Howard Hughes tu yg suka membersihkan diri...it became a disorder bila behavior tu becomes melampau...antara behavior yg ada mungkin spt suka ubah-ubah perabut 2 benda kat rumah...suka benda terletak teratur...mesti ada kat tempat asalnya...suka pakai matching colours, contohnya...ni OCB, bila perbuatan ini agak keterlaluan, jadailah OCD...

blastoff

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder  

"I couldn't do anything without rituals. They invaded every aspect of my life. Counting really bogged me down. I would wash my hair three times as opposed to once because three was a good luck number and one wasn't. It took me longer to read because I'd count the lines in a paragraph. When I set my alarm at night, I had to set it to a number that wouldn't add up to a 'bad' number."
"I knew the rituals didn't make sense, and I was deeply ashamed of them, but I couldn't seem to overcome them until I had therapy."
"Getting dressed in the morning was tough, because I had a routine, and if I didn't follow the routine, I'd get anxious and would have to get dressed again. I always worried that if I didn't do something, my parents were going to die. I'd have these terrible thoughts of harming my parents. That was completely irrational, but the thoughts triggered more anxiety and more senseless behavior. Because of the time I spent on rituals, I was unable to do a lot of things that were important to me."

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have persistent, upsetting thoughts (obsessions) and use rituals (compulsions) to control the anxiety these thoughts produce. Most of the time, the rituals end up controlling them.
For example, if people are obsessed with germs or dirt, they may develop a compulsion to wash their hands over and over again. If they develop an obsession with intruders, they may lock and relock their doors many times before going to bed. Being afraid of social embarrassment may prompt people with OCD to comb their hair compulsively in front of a mirror-sometimes they get "caught" in the mirror and can't move away from it. Performing such rituals is not pleasurable. At best, it produces temporary relief from the anxiety created by obsessive thoughts.
Other common rituals are a need to repeatedly check things, touch things (especially in a particular sequence), or count things. Some common obsessions include having frequent thoughts of violence and harming loved ones, persistently thinking about performing sexual acts the person dislikes, or having thoughts that are prohibited by religious beliefs. People with OCD may also be preoccupied with order and symmetry, have difficulty throwing things out (so they accumulate), or hoard unneeded items.
Healthy people also have rituals, such as checking to see if the stove is off several times before leaving the house. The difference is that people with OCD perform their rituals even though doing so interferes with daily life and they find the repetition distressing. Although most adults with OCD recognize that what they are doing is senseless, some adults and most children may not realize that their behavior is out of the ordinary.
OCD affects about 2.2 million American adults,1 and the problem can be accompanied by eating disorders,6 other anxiety disorders, or depression.2,4 It strikes men and women in roughly equal numbers and usually appears in childhood, adolescence, or early adulthood.2 One-third of adults with OCD develop symptoms as children, and research indicates that OCD might run in families.3
The course of the disease is quite varied. Symptoms may come and go, ease over time, or get worse. If OCD becomes severe, it can keep a person from working or carrying out normal responsibilities at home. People with OCD may try to help themselves by avoiding situations that trigger their obsessions, or they may use alcohol or drugs to calm themselves.4,5
OCD usually responds well to treatment with certain medications and/or exposure-based psychotherapy, in which people face situations that cause fear or anxiety and become less sensitive (desensitized) to them. NIMH is supporting research into new treatment approaches for people whose OCD does not respond well to the usual therapies. These approaches include combination and augmentation (add-on) treatments, as well as modern techniques such as deep brain stimulation.

Taken from this website : http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/anxiety.cfm#anx3

redsinner

yup....biasa dengar OCB...tak sure ada disorder lak tapi semestinye kena dicurb pengidapnye daripada jadi terlampau.

i read this article somewhere that people who suffers from this kind of behaviour lack in security and confidence.
dats why these people akan check sampai berpuluh2 kali samada dia dah kunci rumah ke belum or check sampai 2-3 kali dah kunci kete ke belum. and also it will somehow make u wanna 'make sure' every little tiny details dah secure.
and somehow these people sampai satu tahap dia akan lupa dia dah kunci ke belum sbb dia mmg bebetul tak konfiden n rasa was-was sepanjang masa....

i used to be like this but not too much....kalo dah mengantuk ke penat ke, jadilah dia. alhamdulillah all d time i'm content. hihi

free2rhyme

Breaking Free: My Struggle with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
by Cherlene Pedrick

I have always been a worrier, always anxious. But I dealt with it. Approaching the age of 40, my worries got out of hand. I was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder. I struggled with doubts when I left the house. Had I locked the door? Turned off the coffee pot? The stove and lights? Often, I returned home to check something again.

People without OCD find it hard to understand why we can't turn off the thoughts and stop the compulsive behaviors. They can't understand what is going on in our heads. The easiest way to explain it is to describe the progression of my thoughts and actions. Before leaving the house, I would check the appliances, lights, toilets and doors. I checked them in a certain order, and if I was interrupted, I felt compelled to start over. Frequently, I stopped and wondered if I really had checked to make certain the stove was off. Struggling with fear, I began touching the knobs to make certain. Then I questioned if, while touching the knobs, I had actually turned the stove on. This thought compelled me to check the stove again. I obsessed about the stove -- or coffee pot or door -- after I had already left the house. If I couldn't get the thought out of my mind, I called my neighbor and asked her to check. I needed certainty. "Probably" was not good enough. If I was nervous or preoccupied, it took longer to complete my checking rituals. At first, once was enough to relieve my anxiety and fear, but soon checking once did not produce the same relief. The continuing distress would compel me to check again. I was checking things over and over, with only minimal relief of anxiety. I worried about everything. Not your ordinary worrying, but the constant and obsessing kind of worrying. My work as a home health nurse involved seeing patients in their homes. When the day was over, I didn't sit down to relax. I sat down and went over the day's events, searching for a mistake, a potential problem, something to "fix." Something would stand out as left undone or done imperfectly. A phone call to check on the imagined mistake solved the problem at first. Soon it took more and more phone calls to satisfy my need for certainty. Maybe I said the wrong thing or left something out in the first phone call. Often the worrying continued into the night and the next day. Entire days were filled with worrying and phone calls. I didn't realize it at the time, but the checking rituals only increased my anxiety, rather than alleviating it. This is because rituals only produce short term anxiety relief.

When I first sought treatment for OCD, my therapist helped me explore my childhood. I think he wanted to place blame somewhere. We both wanted to explain OCD, make sense out of it. Then he tried to talk me out of my obsessive thoughts and compulsive behavior. Didn't he realize I had already tried to talk myself out of OCD? I began to realize I was involved in a battle. My enemy was OCD. One of the most important weapons in my battle would be education. Even as a nurse, I knew very little about the disorder. I searched for help in books, articles and online. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a neurobiological disorder affecting 2.5% of people. It is characterized by obsessions or compulsion, usually both, that are time consuming or distressing. They interfere with normal routine, relationships with others or daily functioning. Obsessions are persistent impulses, ideas, images or thoughts that intrude into a person's thinking and cause anxiety. Compulsions are repetitive behaviors or mental acts performed to relieve or prevent anxiety. They may also have a goal of preventing or avoiding some dreaded event. My research led me to other weapons I would need for the battle with OCD, such as cognitive- behavior therapy and medication. Prozac makes my obsessions milder helps me resist the compulsions. It did not completely remove the symptoms, but Prozac makes it easier for me to wield the next weapon I needed, cognitive behavioral therapy. Cognitive therapy involves attempts at changing distorted thinking and beliefs. Behavior therapy teaches the skills needed to gain better control over one's behavior. Together they work well to combat OCD. Exposure and response prevention is the type of behavior therapy most frequently used for treating OCD. It involves exposure to the things we fear most, then prevention of the usual response. An example is exposure to my door locking obsession and resisting the compulsion to check the door again and again until "it felt right." I started with small steps. I checked everything carefully and left the house for a few minutes, graduating to quickly checking and leaving the house for an entire day. At first, the anxiety when I walked away from the house was almost unbearable, but it gradually lessened. As I continued to read and apply the principles I learned, I began to break free from the bondage OCD was imposing on my life. I realize I will probably never be cured without a miracle or new medical breakthroughs, but my life is enjoyable again and the OCD symptoms are 90% relieved.

My OCD improved and I reached out to others who were struggling with the disorder. I met many people who were suffering because of a lack of knowledge and support. I discovered support systems on the Internet and through the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation. Help is available for people with OCD, but the information isn't always reaching them. There is still a great need to make this information easily available. I hope to help fill that need here on Suite 101.

dutchy

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

some people like to label it as a form of sickness, where most of them are a stickler for cleaniness, the need to clean themself or their environment countless times a day, things need to be arrange such or else they get agitated....

for the sufferer themselfves its a form of keeping order in their chaotic mind, the obsessive behavior that we see them as suffering from, is the thing that keep them in check with their own form of 'reality'

munchkeen

but.... bagi aku OCD nie ada 2 jenis.... first, repetitive action meaning that masalah kita yg selalu was-was dalam buat sesuatu.... secondly, unable to decide a simple answer for physical arrangement or mental disturbed on some simple problem.. mcm masalah aku la nak susun barang dengan betul pon susah.... nak planning gi mana mana pon fikir 2-3 kali... its like difficulties in solving  simple multiple problem simultaneously.... kekadang dah decide nak gi kedai beli maggi ngan telur... tetiba tukar plan pulak beli telur je... pastu dah balik rumah rasa nyesal pulak tak beli maggi tue.... so aku bole conclude : Unable to recall all option in solving problem at the point where the decision   have to be made... ok tak?

dutchy

salam munch, ur 'illness' if i may call it so, is more ADD i think, short term attention span, not able to focus, and that is why u rasa, cam susah nk wat pilihan

why don't u pose these question kat pharma online tuh, maybe K. blackmore or Cakk aa can help u to determine where lies ur problem?

cokkodok

Originally posted by redsinner at 9-5-2007 08:48 PM
yup....biasa dengar OCB...tak sure ada disorder lak tapi semestinye kena dicurb pengidapnye daripada jadi terlampau.

i read this article somewhere that people who suffers from this kind of be ...

ow ow. part kunci mengunci nih reminds me of myself. ekekeke..ada sekali tu aku pi kerja tanpa mengunci dan menutup pintu rumah. dasyhat gilerrrr...tapi i consider myself as 'forgetful'. that's why aku selalu remind diri aku tentang sesuatu yang perlu aku buat ke bawak ke...tak pun aku kena mintak orang lain remind kan aku.but that's it...takdelah sampai ke ritual ritual segala.

pada pandangan aku, orang yang ada disorder camgini kan...mungkin berpunca daripada persekitaran dia. i mean..the way they were brought up. maybe dia dibesarkan dalam keadaan yang over-protective, atau perfectionist. Yela kalau masa-kecik-kecik mak dia asyik suruh basuh tangan berkali-kali sbb tak trust yang anak dia dah pon mencuci tangan dia dengan sempurna, tak mustahil sikap dan mindset anak dia akan terprogram dengan arahan tu. dan mungkin jugak benda ni dialami oleh orang yang ada 'low self-esteem'. dia tak percaya pada diri dia sendiri , excessively.

sekian, jagalah alam sekitar anda.

hyphrigian

pernah dengar dan member aku ada sorang OCD.....

seribulan

Info menarik dr. Dr. Fadhilah Kamsah...mengenai latah @ echolalia...terfikir pula...latah ini OCD kerr?

Hanya org Malaysia, Eskimo n Afrika saja yg melatah...perkataan latah ini tiada dlm perbendaharaan kata kaum lain kerana mereka tidak melatah...ini didpti dr. kajian yg tlh dibuat...

Latah ini dikatakan bermula dr. telatah mengada-ngada, mengajuk, terikut-ikut, akhirnya jadi tebiat pula...

seribulan

Most common obsession:

Fear of

1. contamination
2. causing harm to someone else
3. making mistakes
4. behaving in a way that is socially unacceptable
5. exactness/perfection

source: Ripley's Believe It Or Not

Mansairaku

one person yang boleh jadi contoh OCD ni maybe ... Mr. Bean?
dia pun semacam ada obsession dengan certain certain perkara kan?
"extra particular" dengan teddy, parking and all those little things...

nuha

Based on DSM-IV-TR, Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderlines, perfectionism and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness and efficiency, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following:

1. is preoccupied with details, rules, lists, order, organization, or schedules to the extent that the major point of the activity is lost

2. shows perfectionism that interferes with task completion (e.g., is unable to complete a project because his or her own overly strict standards are not met

3. is excessively devoted to work and productivity to the exclusion of leisure activities and friendships (not accounted for by obvious economic necessity)

4. is overconscientious, scrupulous, and inflexible about matters of morality, ethics, or values (not accounted for by cultural or religious identification)

5. is unable to discard worn-out or worthless objects even when they have no sentimental value

6. is reluctant to delegate tasks or to work with others unless they submit to exactly his or her way of doing things

7. adopts a miserly spending style toward both self and others; money is viewed as something to be hoarded for future catastrophes

8. shows rigidity and stubbornness

It can be cured due to proper treatment and therapy. I believe the use of CBT may help OCD patients to improve their mental ability and social functioning.

RedAlert

I used to have this when I was small (primary school)... it was not that serious, but I tend to do things repeatedly for four or eight times.... e.g when I entered a room I would go in and out for 4/8 times... kalau aku berdehem, aku akan buat sampai 4 kali...in fact, bila amik wuduk pun aku akan ulang setiap basuhan sampai 4 kali instead of 3X.

Nobody noticed this though (I think) ....I kind of made sure that I did those things discreetly.  And somehow I've outgrown it. Can't even remember when the habit disappeared or how I managed to overcome it.

It didn't vanish completely though. Once in a while (ok, most of the time) I have this tendency to step only on the middle part of floor tiles. I will not do it if the tiles are too small for my feet though (boleh pulak pilih2 gitu) ... and if the floor is tileless I'll make sure that I don't step on cracks or any form of lines. I know it sounds absurd, but to be honest it feels quite weird when you have to step on those lines....it's like they will leave marks on my soles...huhuhu... am I neurotic or what

[ Last edited by  RedAlert at 13-8-2008 05:10 PM ]

Mansairaku

David Beckham, meanwhile, admits to an obsession with symmetry. In fact, his wife Victoria admitted it for him; in her own, inimitable words: "He's got that obsessive- compulsive thing." She explained how their fridges are coordinated, saying, "Everything is symmetrical. If there's three cans of Diet Coke, he'd throw one away rather than having three - because it has to be an even number."

This suggests that Beckham has issues with counting as well as symmetry. Counting is a common affliction for OCD sufferers, and perhaps my own biggest problem. Sufferers count to ensure there is the "right" number of something. For Beckham it's cans of drink in a fridge; for others, it's pens lined up on a table, coins in a pocket or even bricks in a wall (although obviously this one isn't changeable - merely "countable").


more:  Living with OCD   http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/aug/11/healthandwellbeing.mentalhealth


mansairaku:
  .... reminds me of my fav character in Soul Eater, Death the Kid ..

nameloo

Kalau selalu x konfiden dah kunci kereta ke belum OCD gak ker???

redsinner

i think i also do something similar with urs....

when i walk in the park, i always make sure that my steppings will be within the concrete blocks, never on the line where the blocks end. nak letak kaki dlm kotak, tak go over the line.
but kalo dah lewat pegi kelas ke, ada company, tak pula.
i think it another way of not making myself bored. i like being sensitive to my environment...

cekman

....there's a good and bad side to have this kind of sickness in one self...the good side is you want things done 101% flawless...the bad side is your behaviour will freak people who do not understand your sickness and label you a psycho...

I think everyone of us has a bit of OCD is us but we don't think it as OCD...we see it as being 'On the safe zone'...afraid of the consequences that might follow if we tend to take things for granted.

hajrin

jessica alba ada OCD semasa kecik, always checking on doors, washing hands etc kata beliau

tapi imho, orang yang ada ocd juga mungkin seorang yang intelligent sebab sifat curious tu dah ada dalam diri orang tersebut

and yes, i am a big fan of jessica alba, she's not pretty but extremely cute!! off topic sikit