MYTHS REGARDING OCD

Have you ever made fun of of people suffering with cancer and many more  added up in the list. Of course not because you are not that terrible person. And also because that is a physical illness visible to everyone. But What about those people who suffer from mental illness like anxiety disorders and neurobiological disorders. People with such kind of mental illness usually try to hide things or we can say they remain hideous. People going through you are such a consequences are again and quiet often be mistaken with the people suffering from OCD or obsessive compulsive disorder.Even I have seen people often mistaken by their mental illness as an excuse for avoiding decisions in their life but getting back to the track let’s hold on to this compulsive disorder, neurobiological disorder. But then again there are basket of m y t h s regarding this too.
But before that let me remind you that you might have seen a clean freak friends of your or a germaprobe telling you “I’m so OCD”
   Well that can be weird because OCD is a disorder and in such a case the  disorder will will make the person sick upcourse.
And not that the person will enjoy it!!  
Select start with the first myth

•   Repeated hand washing

• Repetitive checking of things is one of those myths about OCD.

• Obsessive thoughts are again a kind of Myth or stereotype used as a a symptom of OCD. It can be obsession for something or someone.
•      Preoccupation with numbers or patterns .
•     Fear of harming others as well and harming yourself. Unreasonable guilt for those things which might not be done by.