How to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder and how to learn to treat yourself?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is one of the most common mental illnesses. The main manifestation of obsessive-compulsive disorder is to use obsessive-compulsive ideas and behaviors to remind yourself repeatedly that you must do something. Many patients know that they have symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder but they cannot control their behavior. It can be said that obsessive-compulsive disorder causes great mental harm to patients.

Therefore, if you have obsessive-compulsive disorder, you must learn to treat yourself. For some patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, relaxation is the best treatment method. So what other methods are there to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder in life?

1. The reciprocal inhibition method is mainly suitable for various anxiety disorders and psychosomatic diseases. The method is to activate anxiety and relax each group of muscles in sequence through the doctor's verbal suggestion and self-suggestion, so as to weaken the connection between stimulation and anxiety and eliminate or suppress the strong emotional reaction.

2. The prevention method is mainly applicable to the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Before compulsive hand washing or ritual actions occur, restrain your behavior under the supervision and encouragement of a doctor, intentionally engage in other activities, and persist. With the success of "prevention", the supervision will be gradually withdrawn. Often, anxiety and worry will gradually disappear from a significant aggravation to an extreme. The key lies in the successful initial prevention and the continued consolidation of the therapeutic effect.

3. Relaxation therapy, also known as relaxation therapy and relaxation training, is a psychological therapy method that uses training to consciously control one's own psychological and physiological activities, reduce the level of arousal, and improve the body's disordered functions.

4. Thought blocking therapy is also known as thought stopping therapy and thought control therapy . It is a technique for treating symptoms such as obsessive thinking. It is a psychological therapy method that artificially suppresses and interrupts the patient's thinking through external control during the process of imagining his obsessive symptoms. After repeated repetitions, the adverse symptoms disappear. The theoretical assumption of thought blocking therapy is that if a person's external behavior can be prevented through inhibition, then the implicit behavior can also be prevented through inhibition until it disappears.

5. Morita therapy is a non-communicative psychotherapy created by Japanese psychotherapist Shoma Morita by selecting and combining the best of many therapies at the time, such as isolation therapy, occupational therapy, rational therapy, and lifestyle therapy. It was then repeatedly revised and developed.

How long has your condition lasted? Did you go to the hospital to confirm that you "suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorder" or did you make your own judgment? Here are some concepts about anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, I hope it will help you make your judgment.

Anxiety disorder is a neurosis with paroxysmal or persistent anxiety and tension as the main clinical phase. It is often accompanied by obvious physical symptoms such as dizziness, chest tightness, palpitations, dyspnea, dry mouth, frequent urination, sweating, tremors and movement restlessness. The degree of tension or panic does not match the actual situation.

Anxiety disorders are very common. Foreign reports show that the incidence rate in the general population is around 4%, accounting for 6-27% of psychiatric outpatient visits. The United States estimates that the lifetime risk of the disease in the normal population is 5%, while the domestic incidence rate is lower, averaging 7‰. Temporary anxiety disorders account for 1% of temporary neurosis. The disease usually starts in adolescence, with a male to female ratio of 2:3.

Obsessive-compulsive neurosis is a neurosis characterized by obsessive thoughts and compulsive actions. It is characterized by the coexistence of conscious self-compulsion and conscious self-anti-compulsion. Patients know that the continued existence of obsessive-compulsive symptoms is meaningless and unreasonable, but they cannot restrain the repeated occurrences. The more they try to resist, the more nervous and painful they feel. For patients with a prolonged course of illness, ritualistic actions may be the main manifestation. Although the mental pain is significantly alleviated, their social function has been seriously impaired.

Symptoms are mainly divided into obsessive thoughts, compulsive actions, and compulsive intentions. It can be varied, with a single symptom or several symptoms existing at the same time. The content of symptoms can be relatively fixed over a period of time, and can change over time.

Your situation is a kind of obsession, which means that certain associations, ideas, memories or doubts appear repeatedly and are difficult to control. As for whether it is obsessive-compulsive disorder, it also depends on how long you have been suffering from it, whether it is temporary or long-term.

In fact, the above treatment methods are not only suitable for patients with the disease, but are also helpful for normal people to regulate their tense emotions and reduce the pressure of busy work, especially relaxation therapy, which I also use myself. It is just a method.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is very harmful to patients. Some people in life clearly know that they have obsessive-compulsive disorder, but for various reasons they do not receive timely treatment. As time goes by, the symptoms become more and more obvious, and the impact on the patients' lives becomes greater and greater.