Is OCD Considered as a Serious Mental Illness

To simplify what OCD is I’ll put it in simplistic:

Obsessive-compulsive disorder abbreviated as OCD is an anxiety-based disorder that causes distress and impairment to the individual enduring it.

OCD is based on obsessions and compulsions, which are two distinct factors but heavily correlated.

Obsessions are unpleasant, undesirable, usually involuntary, thoughts, ideas, images or impulse, that is hard to waver and are constant, obsessions are originated from a certain fear, that is generally irrational, by irrational I mean very unlikely, holding very little validity and exaggerated in general.

Examples would include fear of contamination—being contaminated by anything the individual deems unpleasant, this could range from physical to mental, physical being touching unclean dishes to mental being, having certain sexual thoughts.

Obsessions cause the individual to feel discomfort and paranoid.

Compulsions are repetitive behaviors, thoughts, to engage in obsessions in order to dwindle them in some way, which results in very little efficient outcomes in dwindling the obsessions and concludes in the obsessions returning.

Compulsions can be internal, or external, they could range from checking the alarm a dozen times to counting to certain numbers in your head in order to prevent the obsessions from dominating your thoughts.

Compulsions range from hoarding, checking, contamination, exactness, and counting, and furthermore.

Certain individuals have a concept labeled ‘rules’. In order to not take up so much time in sorting compulsions a rule, they deem easier is made, for example, if someone were to usually wash their hands three times every time they touch or brush past, a plate near sink, instead, it would modify to whenever they touch the plate four times is when they'll wash their hands. In certain cases the individual would increase the number in order to not oblige to their obsessions and compulsions but the cycle usually ends up in them being indecisive of whether to still, or not do their compulsions.

OCD takes up a lot of time and could distract one’s mandatory priority in replacement for obliging with compulsions instead.

Illustrated By:-Lisual Plavia