April 2nd, 2010
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and How it Relates to Anxiety – Learn How Panic Away Can Help
OCD affects 2 million American adults and can lead to anxiety or depression. OCD seems to affect just as many men as women with 1/3 of all adults developing symptoms as a child. Statistics show that it can be genetic or can also begin in childhood, the teen years or early adulthood. Learn How Panic Away can CURE your anxiety attacks.
OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a type of anxiety where a person experiences unwanted thoughts or fears that lead them to obsess and do repititive ritualistic behaviours such as checking to make sure the door is locked several times, or driving by a certain spot several times to make sure no one is ran over.
A girlfriend of mine was over a few nights ago and she was telling me how she suffers from OCD since the eighth grade. Her behaviour consists of always having things perfectly neat and lined up, when her friends come over and move anything in her room out of her symmetrical alignment it triggers her anxiety and she immediately feels stricken with panic, this had led her to finally talk to each of her friends individually expressing how she feels and her OCD. Now all of her friends are doing their best to understand her situation and her panic attacks. At first she felt embarrassed but after bringing it out in the open she appreciates their care and concern and she can relax a lot more. But she wants to learn how to get OVER it!
Symptoms of OCD:
- Picking at your skin
- Driving around the block several times to make sure no one has been run over
- Counting, ritualistic behaviours or patterns that you feel compelled to do and can`t seem to stop doing.
- Repeating certain phrases
- Fear of appliances left on or door not being locked so you check over and over and over
- Constantly cleaning your house even when it`s not dirty
- Fear of dirt or germs
- Needing things to be orderly and symmetrical, aligning them in a certain way that feels “perfect“.
- Obsessive about weight, constantly weighing yourself several times a day
- Frequent hand washing, fear of being contaminated
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and anxiety are definitely linked. If OCD is left untreated it can really take over your life, leaving you like it’s impossible to stop obsessing over the behaviour.
OCD can interfere with a person’s life taking up to hours a day to perform rituals or behaviors, the person can usually recognize that the behaviours don’t make sense but are unable to stop.
Don’t let the unwanted, obsessive thoughts or behaviours harass you any longer, get back in the driver seat of your life. The Panic Away program will help you to recover from anxiety attacks and the results will last a LIFETIME!