Have you ever seen someone who forces themselves to wash their hands non stop? How to overcome?

Psychologically speaking, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, depression, hypochondriasis, and phobias are all considered a kind of neurosis. And these neuroses all have a common origin, which is fear one by one.

Fear may be one of the most primitive emotions of living beings, and in ancient times, creatures who did not know fear did not live long. Because it is only with fear that one knows what danger is to escape, so as not to be preyed upon by powerful predators.

But in our modern society, it's obviously a lot safer. We don't already have to worry about being eaten by predators. But it's a pity that the development of the brain can't keep up with the drastic changes in our society.

Our brains can still make us fearful when there is no danger, and in this case it is clear that it will do more harm than good.

Each of us has felt anxiety at one time or another, and anxiety is a direct experience of fear. When we are faced with a difficult situation and cannot escape it, we feel anxious. For example, the anxiety of students facing the college entrance examination, the anxiety of not being able to find a job after graduating from college, etc., the anxiety of not developing well after work, the anxiety of missing the opportunity to make a fortune, and so on.

When you can calm yourself for a while, you can feel the anxiety, is it a variant of fear? When this anxiety is externalized, it manifests itself as obsessive-compulsive disorder.

OCD is a ritual behavior, and it's repetitive. For example, washing hands repeatedly and not stopping after washing the ** is actually the fear of bacteria.

And the introverted attack of fear is depression, and in essence, depression is obsessive-compulsive disorder, but it is actually two sides of the same coin. Maybe when we can face our fears correctly, it will have a good effect on both obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression.

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What's more, less depression and anxiety. I won't talk about it.

First, broaden your mind and horizons, and don't use your attention and energy on unimportant and single places.

Life should be fuller. You can arrange to do something meaningful, or do some outdoor activities and sports, which should be able to adjust your rigid and sensitive nerves.

When you start not washing your hands and cleaning up, you will definitely feel bad, but generally speaking, after a while, you will find that it is not so scary, and the uncomfortable feeling will gradually decrease after it reaches its peak.

Of course, you should not lose confidence after a few failures, this is a long-term and tortuous process, take your time. Believe in yourself and have perseverance!

Third, science recognizes that proper contact with bacteria and dirt can help improve people's environmental adaptability and improve people's immunity. An overly clean and sterile environment is not only meaningless, but also has the potential to reduce people's immunity and resilience.

Therefore, don't "backfire" or "overdo it".

Fourth, if necessary, see a psychiatrist!

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For obsessive-compulsive disorder, it may be better to behave **, for example, tie yourself with a rubber band, and when you want to wash your hands, use the rubber band to bounce yourself, so that the pain replaces the comfort after washing your hands, then it is possible to change your hand washing all the time.

However, behavior is a palliative approach (I think).

Your repeated handwashing is your response to one thing.

In the past, I once received a help-seeker, he went to the hospital with his parents when he was a child, and saw a patient vomiting and diarrhea, and then died, he was still young at the time, very scared, so he went to ask his parents, and his parents casually replied that it was gastritis, so he was very afraid that he had gastritis, and later, once, he went to eat barbecue and he ate too much, which caused vomiting, and he was always afraid that he had gastritis, whether he would die, and he washed his hands repeatedly in order to prevent himself from getting gastritis. to build your own sense of security.

In other words, his fears and anxieties could not be released, and in order to make himself more comfortable, he washed his hands repeatedly--- he thought that he could avoid getting sick. So handwashing is linked to health (no gastritis).

And the process of ** is.

1. De-catastrophizing: not washing hands repeatedly does not necessarily lead to gastritis, and gastritis does not necessarily lead to death, let him consider the probability by checking the information.

2. A better way to prevent gastritis: if you take a toy from a child, he will cry, but if you change a toy, he may not cry. The way to stop washing his hands repeatedly is to tell him that there is another way to prevent gastritis that is more effective, for example, by eating vegetables every day.

Hello, compulsive cleaning is a very common manifestation in obsessive-compulsive disorder, many people are occupied by long-term cleaning behavior, but whether it is obsessive-compulsive disorder still needs specific analysis, if it is just that you feel more clean in life, it may be a habit, mainly depends on whether you feel very painful about these behaviors, if you feel very painful, but this pain is not because of the pain caused by the pressure of the people around you, you need to find professional psychological counseling for help.

Some thoughts (behaviors) that you don't want to think (do) but have to think (do) and are accompanied by serious inner conflicts and anxiety and other emotions, which have a serious impact on your life, this is obsessive-compulsive thinking (behavior), and the essence of obsessive-compulsive disorder is a bad psychological habit.

You may have OCD if you:

Obsessive impulses are disturbing thoughts, impulses, and images that you find uncomfortable, but which come back to your head even if you try to think about something else.

Impulses are repetitive and ritualized behaviors (or thoughts) that you are driven to do (or think) or otherwise you will not be able to release the anxiety caused by these urges.

c. Compulsive and coercive impulses interfere with you, take up a considerable portion of your time, or interfere with your daily life to a considerable extent.

If it is said that the hands themselves are clean, but they still wash their hands repeatedly for the sake of washing their hands, accompanied by a strong inner conflict - knowing that this is not good but still can't help but wash it, then it may be obsessive-compulsive disorder. Sweating is either wiped or washed, and I don't think the average person thinks it's too much.

Maybe it's cleanliness, do you feel that your hands are sweaty and dirty?

There are many judgment criteria for obsessive-compulsive disorder on the Internet, and if it affects life, I want to ** to Central European Psychology. What if you find out that it is obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is recommended not to check it if it does not affect your normal life.

Are there any other manifestations? Just by what you say, it's a bit like, but certainly can't say yes for sure.