When I was checking in today and talking to the parent of a junior girl with OCD, the mother felt that she and the child’s father also had OCD and that it was due to genetics, so I asked carefully and found that she had a misconception about OCD that many people have. Many people have similar compulsive personalities or behavioral habits, such as arranging books neatly and tidying up the house, otherwise they can’t look at it and are uncomfortable. Do everything love to pursue perfection, complete, complete, and so on, will do a specific plan beforehand, otherwise go directly to do things feel very uncomfortable. Many people will also have some compulsive rituals, for example, the singer Cao Ge in I am a singer out before opening, often squatting down to kiss their lips with their fingers, and then touch the floor of the stage with their fingers. Many people will be compulsive counting, certain important things must be done such as 3 times and so on a certain fixed number of times, in order to be assured. And many outstanding people have a compulsive, perfectionist personality. So are they considered OCD or not? Zhixiong Wang, Department of Child Psychology, Beijing Huilongguan Hospital If it is just the above, of course it is not considered OCD. Although they behave very similarly to OCD or even the same, a typical OCD must meet the following points: 1. The same repeatedly think about something or repeatedly do something, the patient with OCD will feel that this repeated process is uncomfortable and often painful because he feels that it is unnecessary to think and do it repeatedly. For example, Cao Ge kissing the stage is probably out of blessing and prayer, to stabilize their emotions for better performance, is positive. While the patient with OCD repeatedly washing his hands, checking the locked door, etc., he himself feels that this is not positive. 2. also want to force themselves not to repeatedly think not to do repeatedly, but ordinary people will rely on strong will to try to overcome external interference and persist until completion, recalling the whole process is full of a sense of accomplishment. However, patients with OCD are always fighting against their compulsive thinking or behavior, and the result is always failure, so they have to keep thinking and doing it over and over again, recalling that the whole mental process is frustrated, helpless, and helpless. This is called counter-compulsions, but it should be noted that some children and adolescents with OCD do not have obvious counter-compulsions. 3. The impact of obsessive-compulsive thinking or compulsive behavior on functioning is different. The normal person will benefit from this by doing things better and more perfectly, and when the thing is done, the compulsion will similarly stop until the next new thing is done. But people with OCD will delay important life and studies because of the compulsive symptoms, and will not be able to get rid of them on their own, and keep dwelling on things that have no constructive meaning, such as repeatedly washing their hands for an hour to the point of breaking them, repeatedly going back to check the locking of the door to the point of not being able to get to work on time, etc. The above three points are for your reference, do not wind up in a frenzy, often scare themselves.