What are the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder?

The symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder are also clinically referred to as obsessive-compulsive disorder. After such a disease occurs, the patient's specific manifestation is the repeated occurrence of some persistent obsessive thoughts or compulsive actions in the body as the main symptoms. After these symptoms occur, they are all caused by many obsessive-compulsive symptoms in the patient's heart. So, how should obsessive-compulsive disorder be treated clinically? How to prevent obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Symptom 1: Obsessive thinking

Once the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder occur, many adverse conditions will manifest themselves. For example, many people will experience obsessive thinking. It is the most typical symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder in patients. At this time, patients often have doubts about the correctness of their behavior, or force themselves to imagine unnecessary things. Some patients even have compulsive associations. If a certain sentence appears in the patient's mind, other ideas will appear uncontrollably. In addition, there is a type of obsessive thinking called obsessive rumination, in which patients often repeatedly think about why the leaves are green, etc.

Symptom 2: Self-control is not lost

For patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, they have not lost their self-control and are still able to identify their obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Knowing that this type of thinking or behavior is irrational or unnecessary, and trying to control it without success.

Symptom 3: Compulsive intention

Patients often feel that some of the behaviors they have performed are inconsistent with their own thoughts, and this impulse is beyond the patients' control. Even if they do not do it, they are afraid of losing the ability to control themselves.

In addition to the symptoms of OCD introduced above, there are actually many other symptoms of OCD. For example, many patients will do things they don't want to do after developing OCD symptoms. These things actually have no meaning. Therefore, once OCD symptoms are discovered, it is most important to actively treat them.