Obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, our brains are wired to detect the possibility of danger and try
to avoid it, a glitch or a temporary malfunction in this essential function can lead to OCD, though
positions in OCD are appetitive thoughts about something bad that might happen, like getting sick,
causing a fire or harming another person.
Naturally, a person wants to avoid these feared outcomes, which leads to irresistible urge to neutralize
the obsessive fear through compulsions.
Examples of the obsession compulsion cycle include fear of getting sick washhouse fear of having heard
someone walking shaking the rearview mirror.
Compulsions are powerfully reinforcing through the negative reinforcement at the same time.
People with OCD usually still feel uneasy after doing the compulsion because there is no way to know
for sure that what they fear won't happen.
As a result, a person with OCD is likely to repeat the compulsion and can spend hours a day stuck in
their obsession, compulsion cycle.
While many conditions will improve with various kinds of psychotherapy, OCD requires a specific treatment.
That best attested therapy is called exposure and response prevention.
Which is a type of celebrity, as the name indicates, it involves exposing oneself to the OCD related
fears and giving up the compulsions that maintain the disorder.