Symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder are not always obvious and sometimes you really need to talk to a person and get to know them a little more to find out if they are indeed suffering with OCD or not. In my experience in helping people with OCD I find that sometimes there are a lot of things under the surface that even the sufferer may not have noticed and I will uncover some of those things for you right here. When you read this, I want to reflect on your own life and see if some of these things exist in your life. Noticing them will always be the first step in stopping a worse OCD habit from forming.

Symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder can be as obvious as someone actually doing rituals that would seem very strange to someone else such as touching things repeatedly or seeing someone actually wear gloves or avoid touching things that almost everyone would, like a door to the bank entrance for example. One thing that you should note is that almost all types of OCD stem from reality. Germs are a reality and disease is a reality, the faulty part of the OCD is when the sufferer believes that through some almost magical circumstances that the worst possible outcome is very likely to happen to them when in reality the odds are slim to none. Do you make irrational associations with things such as think that you will get a disease if you touch a door knob without washing your hands directly after?

Some of the other symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder are not so obvious such as counting in your head. People with a strong OCD habit tend to become good at hiding their OCD. They however cannot hide the weird vibe that people get from them. People can sense when someone has strong OCD because of the accumulated effect it has on the sufferer. However people with OCD can become diluted into believing that people don't know and that they are effectively hiding it. Do you find that you try to hide your OCD behaviors?

Another category of symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder is people who tell everyone about how much of a perfectionist they are. They'll say things like, "You know me, I have to have things a certain way." These people will almost throw a fit if things aren't done to the direct specifications or they will suppress their anxiety and disapproval of how the things were carried out. A lot of the time these people will actually go back and try to change things that they have already done or that other people have done in an attempt to "make them right." In reality, they are simply wasting their time and what is sad is that they know it. I know because I used to be one of these people and let me tell you, these were suicidal times for me.

There is hope however. You need to know that even if you have some of these symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder you don't have to let it get any worse and in fact you can even reverse the habits that you are doing by first noticing that you are doing them and then following a proven system to get rid of these OCD thoughts for good. I don't have enough room to get to all of them here but you can check out the stuff I have for you below to get started, enjoy!

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Derek Soto is an ex-sufferer of OCD who teaches people how to overcome their OCD for good in a very short time using little known techniques which are usually ignored by the medical field altogether.

Derek Soto also mentors people on a wide range of subjects including how to control your thinking naturally, how to defeat anxiety, phobias and how to change your thought processes so that you will be happier and live a more fulfilling life, period.