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Anxiety can be defined as emotions which are typ­ically negative in nature. It will often consist of fear and worry, and some organisms may even experience physical signs such as nausea or chest pains. Anxiety is a complex emotion, and is composed of a number of dif­ferent elments. Some of these elements are somatic or cog­nitive, and the body will prepare itself to deal with an external threat. The heart rate speeds up, and the blood pressure is increased. The various muscles in the body will also receive elevated levels of blood. At the same time, the functions of the digestive system will slow down.

People who have anxiety will gen­erally have a sense of dread. A number of vol­untary and invol­untary pro­cesses will take place in the body, and the goal of these pro­cesses is to get the organism away from the source that is causing it to have anxiety. Anxiety is an important emotion, and is designed to increase the survival rate of organisms. In humans it appears that anxiety comes from the hip­po­campus and amygdala, two regions of the brain. When a person senses bad odors or tastes, there will be a large amount of blood flow which will be present in the amygdala. The evidence also shows that medium levels of anxiety will be present in this situation as well.

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Ori­ginally posted 2009-​​03-​​23 23:33:07.

Obsessive-​​Compulsive Disorder can be described as a mental disorder, which is quite common in the people now-​​a-​​days. In this disorder, a person has invol­untary, unwelcome thoughts, which result in certain com­pulsive behaviors. He/​she indulges in repetitive behavior, so as to avoid certain adverse cir­cum­stances from taking place. However, the prob­ability of the cir­cum­stances actually taking place tends to be zero, at the very best — minimal. One of the most common mental dis­orders, obsessive-​​compulsive disorder can disrupt the routine life of a person, if it takes a severe form. In the fol­lowing lines, we have listed the signs and symptoms of the disorder, to make its detection easier.

Signs & Symptoms Of Obsessive-​​Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive Thoughts

• Fear of con­tam­ination by germs or dirt
• Dis­turbing sexually explicit thoughts and images
• Fear of causing harm to self or others
• Violent thoughts and images
• Excessive focus on religious or moral ideas
• Fear of losing or not having things that might be needed
• Obsession that everything must in ‘order’
• Excessive belief in superstitions
• Intense fear of making mistakes or behaving inappropriately

Com­pulsive Behaviors

• Double-​​checking things every time, like locks and switches
• Seeking assurances time and again
• Doing the same action repeatedly
• Checking in on loved ones, every now and then, to ensure they’re safe and sound
• Counting, tapping, or doing other absurd things, repeatedly, to reduce anxiety.
• Rpeating certain words again and again
• Obsession with washing or cleaning
• Arranging and re-​​arranging things, in a specific way
• Praying excessively
• Engaging in religious rituals, triggered by fear
• Accu­mu­lating junk/​ useless things
• Hoarding of possessions
• Avoiding taking respons­ibility for the simplest of tasks

Ori­ginally posted 2009-​​03-​​27 19:57:34.

Aside from being mega-​​rich and famous, what do David Beckham and Leonardo di Caprio have in common? Both suffer from Obsessive-​​Compulsive Disorder (OCD),  Obsessive-​​Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety disorder that is char­ac­terized by an obsessive or dis­tressing thought.  It may also involve com­pulsions or “rituals.”   It is such a serious concern that event the World Health Organ­ization has labeled OCD as among the top 10 most dis­abling ill­nesses faced by society today.   In the United States alone, it is estimated that 3.3 million people are suf­fering from OCD.

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Ori­ginally posted 2009-​​03-​​24 13:11:56.