What are the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Modern people’s lives are very colorful, but the pressure is also very great, which has caused great harm to people’s health. In particular, the damage to mental health is very serious. For example, obsessive-compulsive disorder is a pathological psychological symptom that people develop under strong psychological pressure, which requires timely intervention and treatment. First of all, we need to understand the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Let’s take a look at the explanation below.

1. The most obvious manifestation of obsessive-compulsive disorder: anticipating worries

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder will endlessly repeat their fantasies and exaggerate their expectations, which is what people often call worrying about nothing and looking for trouble. Of course, the troubles of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder do not come entirely from self-inflicted problems. Instead, after encountering small problems in life, they often constantly imagine many or even big problems derived from these small problems in the future. These incorrectly anticipated problems will seriously affect the current mental state, leading to inappropriate behavior and showing some symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Anticipating worries usually causes people with obsessive-compulsive disorder to become overly anxious, and anxiety makes the situation of anticipating worries worse. Over time, obsessive-compulsive disorder will naturally arise.

2. The most common symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder: repetitive actions

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is well known to everyone because there are many humorous jokes on the Internet that summarize the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Frequently clicking on message reminders, checking whether the doors at home are locked... these small actions actually show that people with obsessive-compulsive disorder are repeatedly doing one thing or performing an action.

Putting aside the internal causes, this repetitive action is one of the most common manifestations of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

If you see this and start to doubt whether the gas valve in your home is closed properly or if there is a gas leak, congratulations, you have joined the glorious group of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

3. The simplest way to distinguish people with obsessive-compulsive disorder: exclusive method

The so-called method on the Internet that setting a small symbol with the Arabic numeral 1 on the avatar can test people with obsessive-compulsive disorder is not very scientific and the effect is not obvious.

Teacher Cui’s exclusive method to quickly identify people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Please indicate the source when reprinting. Pay attention to the way he speaks. If he repeats a word or modal particle many times in a short conversation, he is undoubtedly a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder.