https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng All about Obsessive Compulsive disorder en-us 2018-05-30 04:20:22 UTC 2018-05-31 05:09:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png ghazalr2002 https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430059 Humans have had OCD for a very long time but it was finally noticed a few hundred years ago. Noticing the OCD was not as good as it sounds. Back then, people related OCD with spiritual thoughts and cared about destroying thoughts without paying attentions to its effect on the patient's mind. Years later, when the talk therapy became the new standard solution to OCD, it resulted in making he symptoms worse. Later, exposure therapy became the solution for OCD. It focused on eliminating the symptoms but it failed to get rid of the obsessive thoughts, so it didn't always have positive results. Today, therapists let their patients understand how OCD works and how it controls their thoughts and try to eliminate both the obsession and the compulsive actions. The new surgical methods are also an easy way for patients to permanently get rid of OCD.]]> 2018-05-30 04:34:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430059 ghazalr2002 https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430263 Although OCD can effect anyone, it is more likely to show its symptoms during childhood and during the teenage years. For boys, the symptoms show earlier than for girls. People who are under a lot of pressure also have a high chance of becoming effected by OCD.]]> 2018-05-30 04:37:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430263 ghazalr2002 https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430334 OCD is common amongst people, regardless of their age, and gender. Most people are usually diagnosed at the age of 19. OCD also effects about 2.1% of the population and is one of the most common mental illnesses in the world. ]]> 2018-05-30 04:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430334 ghazalr2002 https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430351 No one really knows for sure what the cause of OCD is but scientists think that genetics, brain structure and functioning, and environment effect it. Research showed that people who have siblings with OCD are at a higher chance of developing OCD themselves. It has been seen that a trauma can also trigger OCD.]]> 2018-05-30 04:38:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430351 ghazalr2002 https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430379 The symptoms of OCD are obsessive thoughts and compulsive actions. Everyone can have obsessive thoughts, but people diagnosed with OCD can't control their thoughts. Their thoughts get take up hours and get in the way of their day to day lives. Their compulsive actions are a way to calm themselves and get away from the anxiety of their thoughts.]]> 2018-05-30 04:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430379 ghazalr2002 https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430441 There is a cure. There are therapeutic, medical, and surgical methods that can stop OCD from taking over patient's minds. Medications are not always the same for every OCD patient. Doctors usually try different Antidepressants before assigning the one that controls OCD with as little damage to the patient as possible. Some of the antidepressants may be: Sertraline, Fluoxetine, Fluvoxamine, Paroxetine, or Clomipramine. The Thereputical method involves the patients watching things or actions that would usually trigger their OCD, without being able to react to it. If the medications and the therapy doesn't work, the patients might want to get a surgery where a device, that sends out electrical shocks, is implanted into the patients brain to control the neurological activities of the brain. Unlike most brain surgeries, this surgery is reversible. ]]> 2018-05-30 04:39:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430441 ghazalr2002 https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430490 Teens are effected by OCD the most. The symptoms usually appear by the age of 14 but are not noticed by the late teens. OCD can be very overwhelming and adds a lot of anxiety to youth's dad to day life so it is best to see a doctor as soon as we think we have OCD. It is also important to educate the parents because they are the ones who can help the most if they know how to help. ]]> 2018-05-30 04:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430490 ghazalr2002 https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430603 Since OCD can be similar to other mental illnesses, it is difficult to diagnose it. However, a diagnosis is not impossible. To diagnose a patient, doctors do physical, phycological, and lab tests. Doctors look to see if the obsessive and compulsive actions of the patient makes it hard for to finish their day actions.]]> 2018-05-30 04:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430603 ghazalr2002 https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430653 By the time a child with OCD transitions into an adult without getting treatment, the child't OCD can turn into chronic OCD. Chronic OCD makes it extremely hard for the adults to function and results in high anxiety that can get worse if the chronic OCD is not treated.]]> 2018-05-30 04:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430653 ghazalr2002 https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430700 The cost for anxiety disorders in Canada, in 1994, was 65 billion dollars.]]> 2018-05-30 04:41:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ghazalr2002/cvsormayqdng/wish/264430700