OCD linked to Anxiety – Panic Away Can Make Your Anxiety Stop
OCD affects 2 million American adults and can lead to anxiety or depression. OCD seems to affect just as many men as women with 1/3 of all adults developing symptoms as a child. Statistics show that it can be genetic or can also begin in childhood, the teen years or early adulthood. Learn How Panic Away can CURE your anxiety attacks.
When a person is plagued with repeated thoughts or obsessions such as excessively washing hands (fear of germs) or checking to make sure the appliances are off this is known as a type of anxiety called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD.
I had a friend over for dinner the other night and she told me she has been aware of her OCD since the 8th grade. Her behaviour consists of always having things perfectly neat and lined up, when her friends come over and move anything in her room out of her symmetrical alignment it triggers her anxiety and she immediately feels stricken with panic, this had led her to finally talk to each of her friends individually expressing how she feels and her OCD. Her friends are very supportive and are happy that she has told them all about her OCD and anxiety. At first she scared to say anything, but after she did bring it out in the open she felt a huge sense of relief and appreciated her friends support. But she wants to learn how to get OVER it!
Symptoms of OCD:
- Counting, ritualistic behaviours or patterns that you feel compelled to do and can`t seem to stop doing.
- Obsessive about weight, constantly weighing yourself several times a day
- Fear of dirt or germs
- Repeating certain phrases
- Fear of appliances left on or door not being locked so you check over and over and over
- Driving around the block several times to make sure no one has been run over
- Needing things to be orderly and symmetrical, aligning them in a certain way that feels “perfect“.
- Frequent hand washing, fear of being contaminated
- Constantly cleaning your house even when it`s not dirty
- Picking at your skin
Anxiety and OCD are definitely related. Obsessive Compulsive disorder can take over your life leaving you feel smothered and unable to stop obsessing.
OCD can interfere with a person’s life taking up to hours a day to perform rituals or behaviors, the person can usually recognize that the behaviours don’t make sense but are unable to stop.
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