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Schawn Austin | Healing History Counseling

OCD

February 16, 2018 by Schawn Austin Leave a Comment

When someone is constantly trying to control every little detail and obsesses over seemingly trivial details they may find themselves called "OCD". This is not OCD. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a type of anxiety disorder that includes thoughts, fears, or sensations that a person becomes fixated on (obsessions). They then develop rituals or patterns of behaviors (compulsions) that are an attempt to control, manage or relieve those obsessions. The compulsions are usually usually not actually connected to the obsession (always flipping a switch on the wall to turn off a light is not a compulsion but tapping the wall 3 times in a set pattern in order to prevent the switch from sparking a fire could be a compulsion). Both the general need to be in control and get things just right and the clinical OCD can have roots in past traumatic experiences. People may try to control every aspect of their lives because they feel unsafe and out of control. These feelings of unsafe and out of control can be rooted in past experiences that are still impacting their lives. Although there is a hereditary aspect to the clinical OCD diagnosis there is also an environment aspect. People with traumatic events in their past have higher rates of OCD.

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