Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a mental illness. He belongs to a kind of anxiety disorder. Its clinical manifestations are compulsive thinking and compulsive behavior. Mental illness. The etiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder is very complicated, and there is no conclusion at present. At present, the mainstream theory believes that it is related to psychological, social, personality, genetic and neuroendocrine factors.

The characteristics of obsessive-compulsive disorder are

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is the patient's own impulse to think, not given to him by others. Obsessive-compulsive disorder will have an idea or action to resist obsessive-compulsive disorder patients in vain. Compulsive thoughts and impulses will recur. Will continue to finish it. Although the idea of obsessive-compulsive disorder will make you feel uncomfortable. But obsessive-compulsive disorder patients will ask themselves to repeat this behavior over and over again. There is a lot of compulsion. The most common compulsive behaviors are

Constantly force yourself to clean. For example, wash your hands or take a shower to wash clothes. I always feel that these things have not been cleaned and will be cleaned all the time. This is a compulsion.

Some patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder will repeatedly check whether the doors and windows, gas, lights, TV, air conditioning, mobile phones, etc. are closed. They always feel that the doors and windows are not closed, the lights are not closed, the gas is not turned off, the TV is not turned off, the air conditioner is not turned off, and the mobile phone is not turned off. They will repeat the confirmation many times.

There are also some patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder who will continue to perform compulsive techniques. For example, some patients will compulsively remember some numbers. For example, someone else's phone number, car license plate number, the number on the invoice and the number on the bill are all mandatory memories. Sometimes I even watch it many times.

Some people with obsessive-compulsive disorder force themselves to do some ritual actions. For example, the most classic action of basketball shooting, walking in a straight line without taking a curve and so on. They will plan and model this action.

For patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, we should actively cooperate with doctors for treatment. For mental illness, there are some such as schizophrenia, depression, anxiety and so on.