Obsessential disorder is a type of anxiety disorder, which is a psychological disease with compulsive thinking and compulsive behavior as the main clinical manifestations. Its characteristics are coexistence of compulsive and anti-compulsive. Some meaningless behaviors that are not consistent with reality or incredible ideas repeatedly plague patients' daily lives. Although patients experience that these thoughts or impulses come from themselves and try their best to resist, they are still uncontrollable. The strong conflict between the two makes them feel huge anxiety and pain, affecting their study, work, interpersonal communication and even daily life.
The view on psychological diseases, Western medicine's psychology department focuses on symptoms, and its treatment is based on the principle of eliminating symptoms. It believes that as long as various symptoms are controlled or eliminated, it is good. However, this practice is like covering up the ear and stealing the bell, which is self-deception. "Symptoms" are "reporting news", just like a person having a fever. You must figure out the cause of the fever and find the lesions so that the problem can be truly solved, rather than just reducing the fever. Moreover, in fact, if the lesions are not completely resolved, the symptoms cannot be completely eliminated. As long as the effect of the drug decreases, the symptoms will still appear, just like antihypertensive drugs, which require long-term or even lifetime use. The principle of
psychotropic drugs is actually to act on the human nervous system , affecting the human neurophysiological activities, and more to inhibit nerve conduction , in order to suppress emotions, so it is also necessary to take medicine for a long time, and even be required to take medicine for life, because once the medicine is over, the symptoms will reappear. Of course, because the medicine inhibits nerve conduction, patients often feel sleepy, have no spirit, and cannot perform normal thinking activities.
According to the Chinese way of thinking, we must trace the root of the problem. To solve the problem, we must first find the cause and solve the cause.
The psychological operation mechanism of a person is as follows: all psychological activities are generated around human needs, and human behavior, emotions and conscious activities are all to meet human needs. For example, if your child fails the exam, you lose his temper at him, and the purpose is to make him do well in the exam. So we say that psychological activities are actually a way to meet individual needs, or the role of psychological interaction is to meet human needs.
The behaviors and thinking manifested by patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder are no exception. For example, some typical patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder have forced hands washing, forced doors, windows and gas checks. The reason why patients do this is to ensure their health and safety is what we call satisfying their sense of security needs, but why do patients repeatedly do these behaviors? Because these behaviors are invalid behaviors, the patient's behavior cannot make him feel certain safety, so the behavior cannot be stopped repeatedly, just like a car trapped in a mud pit. The driver stepped on the accelerator, the wheels kept slipping, and the car could not get out. The same is true for obsessive thinking. For example, some obsessive-compulsive patients always think about every link and detail of a certain thing, and repeatedly think about how to do every step of what they are about to do. They will also recall how they do what they have done, and whether the sentence is right. The reason why patients cannot stop thinking like this is essentially because they are afraid of not doing things well and are afraid of doing things wrong, because they may be criticized and denied after doing things wrong. This is done to prevent being criticized and denied, which we call satisfying the psychological need of "acceptance and recognition".
Therefore, this type of obsessive-compulsive disorder is essentially caused by inferiority complex. It is often because it is often denied and criticized since childhood, especially if it makes mistakes or fails to do things according to adults' wishes, it will be criticized and denied, causing inferiority complex, caring about other people's evaluations, and fearing being denied and blamed.
The reason why these ideas cannot stop is because these ideas are also "ineffective" because they cannot meet the "need for acceptance and recognition" at all. The reason is that the patient's satisfaction of this need depends on others, not self-acceptance and recognition. Therefore, no matter how you think, there is no guarantee that others will recognize themselves, or that others will not blame themselves.
Of course, many obsessive-compulsive patients have generalized their behaviors and thinking, that is, they are incredible, without any logic or causal relationship, just like after a river breaks a dam, the water flowing out will flow everywhere and be out of order.
However, whether it is primary obsessive-compulsive disorder or generalized obsessive-compulsive disorder, do not try to solve it from thinking and behavior, because it cannot be solved at all. The symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder are like smoke coming out on fire. To eliminate smoke, you must put out the fire. If the fire is not extinguished, there will always be smoke. So it is not about the problem of smoking, but you must find the root cause: which need is not satisfied. The root cause of obsessive-compulsive disorder is generally a sense of security or acceptance and recognition that needs are not met. Find the root cause to transform fear, rebuild a sense of security or healing inferiority. The obsessive-compulsive disorder will naturally stop, and the so-called obsessive-compulsive disorder will be cured without medicine.
