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Obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, our brains are wired to detect the possibility of danger and try

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to avoid it, a glitch or a temporary malfunction in this essential function can lead to OCD, though

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positions in OCD are appetitive thoughts about something bad that might happen, like getting sick,

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causing a fire or harming another person.

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Naturally, a person wants to avoid these feared outcomes, which leads to irresistible urge to neutralize

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the obsessive fear through compulsions.

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Examples of the obsession compulsion cycle include fear of getting sick washhouse fear of having heard

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someone walking shaking the rearview mirror.

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Compulsions are powerfully reinforcing through the negative reinforcement at the same time.

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People with OCD usually still feel uneasy after doing the compulsion because there is no way to know

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for sure that what they fear won't happen.

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As a result, a person with OCD is likely to repeat the compulsion and can spend hours a day stuck in

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their obsession, compulsion cycle.

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While many conditions will improve with various kinds of psychotherapy, OCD requires a specific treatment.

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That best attested therapy is called exposure and response prevention.

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Which is a type of celebrity, as the name indicates, it involves exposing oneself to the OCD related

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fears and giving up the compulsions that maintain the disorder.