Volume 5 Issue 10 October 2015
❌All neat freaks have OCD.
✅Although cleanliness is a sign of OCD but it can be present in otherwise healthy persons. In OCD the patient indulges in cleanliness due to unrelenting anxiety.
❌Stress causes OCD.
✅Although stress can exacerbate OCD symptoms, stress alone does not cause it.
❌OCD behavior is caused by troubled childhood.
✅OCD is caused by combination of biological, psychological and social factors.
❌OCD is an expression of subconscious conflicts.
✅Many psychoanalysis would consider OCD as an expression of subconscious conflicts, but this has never been proven. Attempting to interpret the unconscious meaning in this disorder is also not clinically useful.
By Swapnil Tripathi, final year, MBBS student, AIIMS, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
