Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

How would you feel if you had to wash your hands six times before you went to sleep, or touch every door handle before going for a drive, having to make sure everything is in complete order or you just couldn't go out the rest of the day? These are common things Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, suffers’ go through every day. OCD is a disorder which causes an individual to have intrusive thoughts of a frightening or disturbing nature, which in turn may cause the person to do things repeatedly. Although only one in fifty Americans have OCD, it is not considered rare. OCD is a disorder that is usually stereotyped. Most people who don't have OCD or know what OCD is, think that it only means that a person is extremely organized or superstitious. What these people don’t know is how hard it can be to have this disorder. OCD can effect you’re social life, you’re home life, and you’re work life. There are so many factors to this disorder that people are unaware of. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is commonly unrecognized of how detrimental it can be to ones life.
If you have OCD, you probably recognize that your obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors are not logical but even so, you feel unable to resist them and break free. OCD is not completely curable but