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ISTJ Relationship Compatibility
ISTJ personality types have four defining qualities, namely intuitive, judging, sensing, and thinking. When it comes to relationships though, they may have the deficiency of affection in contrast to the experience of other personality types. However, these relationships are very meaningful to an ISTJ individual. Although they are not so expressive and demonstrative in terms […]
Enneagram Relationship Compatibility
The Enneagram personality system is regarded as one of the best tools to understanding people with the use 9 behavioral patterns relating to various aspects in life, such as relationships. It is said that knowing these patterns can help us with engaging with a certain individual. Here are relationship compatibility concepts for each of the […]
Deep Brain Stimulation OCD
Treatment for Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD) includes Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention and medications. However, despite these techniques, around 40%-60% of patients still experience symptoms. In the 1990s, the first investigative study on the effectiveness of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) to treat OCD when medications do not work was conducted. Since it was started, […]
Scrupulosity OCD
One of the many subsets of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is scrupulosity OCD, which can be identified in people who experience repetitive, intrusive thoughts (obsessions) that surround a discrepancy in their moral and religious beliefs. Most of the time, these thoughts would coerce a person to engage in a series of compulsive behaviors that are caused […]
OCD Rumination
There is a wide array of distinct obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) compulsions that highly trained therapists can easily determine. But for everyday people, it would be very difficult to determine which one is which. Well, in general, you can settle on calling common mental compulsions as rumination. According to OCD experts who have been dealing with […]
OCD False Memory
One of the lesser known types of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that still affects a lot of people around the world and causes them significant problems is the OCD false memory. It is called “false memory”, as there would be no actual evidence that something untoward has happened. Those who suffer from this condition tell stories […]
OCD Cleanliness Symptoms
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental condition, where an individual have certain thoughts repeatedly, perform certain routines repeatedly and feels the need to check things repeatedly. One type of this condition—and the most well-known—involves cleaning rituals, where sufferers can be described as perpetually engaged in compulsive acts of decontamination. These people can be divided into […]
OCD Cognitive Distortions
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by having unpleasant and repetitive intrusive thoughts, images and ideas about hurting oneself. This is also accompanied with compulsive behaviors that can affect one’s life. People with OCD also experience cognitive distortions that repeatedly play inside their heads. Cognitive distortions have been defined by Aaron Beck, a seminal cognitive-behavioral therapist […]
Dermatillomania OCD
The term skin picking disorder (SPD) or otherwise known as dermatillomania is determined by the compulsive or obsessive picking of the skin. Those with this type of disorder often have feelings of anxiety, stress, and tension that will show tendencies of having an uncontrollable urge of picking, scratching, and squeezing of their own skin. This […]
OCPD vs OCD
Many health-care providers, patients and researchers are getting confused about the condition involving obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and its distinction with obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD). Even with their similarities in terms of cases, names, and symptoms, both terms have different characteristics that can separate one from the other. Basically, OCPD deals with the chronic and […]
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