Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors

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life disintigrate. Obsessions are persistant, senseless, worrisome, and
often times, embarrassing, or frightening thoughts that repeat over and over in
the mind in an endless loop. The automatic nature of these recurant thoughts
makes them difficult for the person to ignore or restrain successfully.
The essence of a Compulsive Personality Disorder is normally found in a
restricted person, who is a perfectionist to a degree that demands that others
to submit to hisher way of doing things. A compulsive personality is also often
indecisive and excessively devoted to work to the exclusion of pleasure. When
pleasure is considered, it is something to be planned and worked for.
Pleasurable activities are usually postponed and sometimes never even enjoyed.
With severe compulsions, endless rituals dominate each day. Compulsions are
incredibly repetitive and seemingly purposeful acts that result from the
obsessions. The person performs certain acts according to certain rules or in ...

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can't trust your eyes that see no
dirt, or really believe that the door is locked. You know you have done nothing
harmful but in spite of this good sense you must go on checking and counting.
There are many, many common obsessions, of all of them the most common
is called "washing" this involves the victim to have a constant feeling of
conamination, dirt andor grime all over their body. The book,The Boy Who
Couldn't Stop Washing by Judith L. Rapoport describes a long, sad case of a
young boy who spent three or more hours in the shower each day. The boy "felt
sure" that there was some sticky substance on his skin. He thought of nothing
else.
Our normal functioning probably consists of ...

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