Can obsessive compulsive disorder become a mental illness?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a relatively common psychological problem that has a great impact on people's lives, causing patients to pursue perfection. Mental illness is an increasingly common disease symptom in modern life. There are many manifestations of mental illness, most of which are manifested in the form of mental damage to the patient, such as disordered thinking, hysteria, etc. Let's take a look at whether obsessive-compulsive disorder will turn into a mental illness? I hope everyone can understand.

Obsessions may seem similar to delusions in schizophrenia, but they are actually two completely different conditions.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is generally caused by excessive mental exertion in certain aspects or certain things, which consumes too much energy without timely rest and adjustment, resulting in the body and mind being in a weak sub-health state for a long time. Gradually, the body and mind will be affected, and the mind will not be able to control one's thoughts. The brain is always thinking about something, someone, or an object uncontrollably. At the same time, many of them are accompanied by insufficient body yang, neurasthenia, insomnia, etc. If you don't know how to regulate your body and mind, the condition will become more serious over time!

OCD and psychosis (schizophrenia) are problems of different natures. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a mental illness, or more precisely, it is caused by a long-term unhealthy psychological pattern. Mental illness is caused by organic diseases. The two situations are completely different, and it will not develop into mental illness unless there is a major accident. Of course, if the obsessive-compulsive disorder becomes serious, it will lead to the generalization of the compulsion, and the compulsion will be projected into all aspects of life, making the patient more painful and unable to extricate himself.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a very stubborn logical loop. We cannot use logical thinking or reasonable analysis to solve compulsion, as that will only lead us into the bottomless pit of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The correct way to deal with it is “no entanglement, no resistance, no participation”, that is, to maintain an equal mind. As long as we continue to maintain equanimity towards the manifestation of compulsion, the compulsion will disappear automatically.