#Parents’ Questions and Answers#[Rose] Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a psychological disorder that uses obsessive-compulsive ideas and compulsive actions as the main symptoms. Knowing that it is not necessary, it cannot get rid of recurring ideas, emotions and behaviors, and i

[Rose] Let’s first briefly understand what are the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in children?

[Breeze] 1. Obsessive concept:

(1) Forced memory: Recalling what happened before, although it is meaningless to know that it has no meaning, but it is impossible to control it.

(2) Forced doubts: create unnecessary doubts about whether your actions are correct. If you always suspect that the room door is not locked after going out, and you are anxious about this matter, you will continue to check and verify it repeatedly.

(3) Compulsive thoughts: think repeatedly about some common natural phenomena without meaning. Knowing that it is unnecessary or even absurd, you can't control yourself. For example, think repeatedly about why people have two ears, whether they are egg-leaving or egg-leaving chickens, etc.

[Breeze] 2. Forced intention: often entangled with ideas that are opposite to the wishes at that time, and knowing that they are unreasonable but cannot get rid of them. For example, when you see a beautiful item, you want to destroy it, stand on a bridge or jump down, etc. Although this compulsive intention does not have corresponding behavior, I know that such thoughts are wrong or unreasonable, and are often accompanied by anxiety and fear, which drives children to avoid such items.

[Breeze] 3. Forced action:

(1) Forced washing: When a child comes into contact with something he thinks is dirty, such as money, other people's books, or has physical contact with others, he cannot control his hands or bathing repeatedly.

(2) Forced counting: Involuntarily count certain things, such as floor tiles on the road, steps, license plates on the road, etc.

(3) compulsive ritual action : Repeat stereotyped actions often. If you enter the house, you must first step into your right foot; if you do your homework, you must first do your Chinese homework, and the things must be placed symmetrically or neatly.

[Rose] How should parents intervene if their children have these obsessive-compulsive symptoms?

[Breeze] 1. Strengthen children's cognition. Help children understand and overcome their weaknesses of hesitation when encountering problems, and understand that everyone will inevitably encounter various difficulties, and it is impossible to handle everything so perfectly. Some setbacks are always inevitable. Eliminate children's doubts and build confidence in overcoming obsessive-compulsive disorder.

[Breeze] 2. Enhance children's self-confidence. Encourage children to contact the outside world more, cultivate interests and hobbies such as singing, playing ball, running, listening to music, participate in more collective activities and physical labor, divert children's attention to symptoms, help children arrange regular life and study, and do not let them live in conflicts and contradictions, and gradually get rid of obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

[Breeze]3. Let it go naturally and not deliberately suppress it. Guide children to let the symptoms go naturally and not suppress them, and adopt an attitude of not being afraid, ignoring and not confrontation, so that the symptoms gradually fade from consciousness and disappear.

[Breeze] 4. Behavioral confrontation therapy: Let the child wear a rubber band on his wrist. If there is an irresistible compulsion, immediately stretch the rubber band on his wrist (it is appropriate to have a slight pain in the wrist skin). At the beginning, the forced phenomenon occurs more frequently and the rubber bands are pulled more often. After a period of time, as the forced phenomenon decreases, the rubber bands are pulled also decreases. Until finally, use your own thoughts to relieve the obsessive thoughts.

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