Obsession-Compulsion

Have you ever encounter a person who is always having repetitive irrational or illogical thoughts? a person who is always having repetitive irrational or illogical actions? This person always thinks and acts differently and yet nothing happens to him/her. An example of a repetitive irrational thought is, “I should have done that, if ever, I won in the competition.” The point is the competition is finished and you did not win. Accept the reality and stop thinking of what should have done. Just learn from your experience so that next time you know what to be done in order to win in the competition. This is obsession.

A person will always go to a mall and spend all his/her money on buying anything. Then, he/she will just put all of those things he/she bought and will not use it at all. This is compulsion.

This becomes an obsessive-compulsive disorder when it is affecting the person’s total activity which makes the person angry up to the extent of isolating his/her own self to the people.

If you know somebody like this, please refer this individual to a psychologist especially when he/she is affecting already the people around.