But anxiety is certainly not the only emotion that shows up in OCD. I’ve discussed briefly how some people withOCD have symptoms of guilt, shame, disgust, and depression, and how treatment may sometimes need to be modified when these emotions are primary aspects of the disorder. Today, tho...
For example, a teenage girl may worry that if she has a thought of a home invasion happening to her family, then the break-in will undoubtedly occur. Or a college student might fear that he will wander out of his dorm room and harm someone without knowing it. If this student is strugg...
always like a ghost haunting the brain. In high school I have the symptoms of distress, is more and more get out of hand from the beginning, the behavior of forcing, generalization to thinking of the extreme is repeated, and leave no stone unturned. What things will be to one hundred an...
soIguessI’mkindalovingthepoweroutage.Thisissomethingthatwould neverhappenunderfluorescentlights.Iguessthat’strueofalotofthings,cometo thinkofit. “Thatfeelsgood,”hisstill-chokingbutless-panickyvoicesays.“Idon’tknowwhat justhappened.”“Panicattack,”Isay.I’mreadytolistallthesymptomsandcausesandgive...