Support for a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder
The correct starting point for helping a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is for the family to understand the nature of this illness, and specifically to understand the following:
The thoughts that invade the mind of an OCD patient come against their will.
The patient knows that these thoughts are wrong, trivial, and strange.
The patient tries to get rid of these thoughts and free themselves from their control.
The patient is unable to resist and completely fails to expel the silly idea that occupies the center of their thinking and awareness; the patient resists, fails, becomes anxious, and then depressed.
I be afraid to label myself . Putting any label on you keeps you trapped to being free . Any good or bad label . Drop labels cause if you don't that label you will stick too and then you can't let go of it very easily. I read books upon books with obsessive compulsive disorders . They were good books but what done for me is accepting yourself, the labels will drop then . I don't get it right all the time . Or my happy ? It's a lot better than the way I was before . That's all I can say. You can go deep into that with labels .
I think I know someone with OCD except he doesn’t seem to think he’s irrational about his obsessions or compulsions. Everything has to be done a certain a way bc he thinks it’s “the right way” to do it. Will defend it to his death but certainly wouldn’t admit it’s wrong or trivial.
