OCD

Anxiety is your brain’s alarm system. When you feel anxious, it feels like you are in danger. Anxiety is an emotion that tells you to respond, react and or protect yourself. Obsessive compulsive disorder is a psychological disorder that occurs in the brain and affects one behavior. OCD involves conflict in communication interaction between the frontal lobe of the brain and basal ganglia, deeper structures of the brain. These brain structures use a neurotransmitter called serotonin.“ Seretonin is a chemical neurotransmitter that allows nerve cells to communicate with each other by working in the space between nerve cells, called the synaptic cleft is involved with biological processes such as mood, aggression, sleep, appetite and pain.”(http://www.anxietycare.org.uk/docs/ocdcauses.asp). There are many different types of OCD people have, these powerful thoughts and image becomes severe and feel outside of the person’s control. Individuals with OCD do not want to have these thoughts and find them disturbing. Majority of the time, people with OCD realize that these thoughts don’t make any sense. Although they do not want to perform these thoughts their mind overrides the body and unselfconsciously they do it anyways, like a robot.
Obsessions are typically accompanied by intense and uncomfortable feelings such as fear, disgust, doubt, or a feeling that things have to be done in a way that is just right to the person. Some common obsessions in OCD are: contamination, losing control, harm, perfectionism, religion obsession, unwanted sexual thoughts, concern with getting a physical illness or disease, superstitious ideas about luck or unlucky numbers, certain colors, etc. Some common compulsive in OCD are: washing, cleaning, checking, repeating ,mental review of events to prevent harm, avoiding situation that may trigger ones OCD, etc. In the context of OCD, obsessions are time consuming and compel a person from being engaged in important