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OCD Does It Need A Professional Help

by Dr.Vipul Tyagi Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at Shree Narayan Ho

Any mental disorder that can get in the way of your daily life needs some therapy that too from an expert. OCD or obsessive-compulsive disorder is a mental disorder but it is really difficult to analyze whether a person is suffering from it.By definition, a person is suffering from OCD if he or she gets into a cycle of obsessions and compulsions. This is what Dr. Vipul Tyagi explained when asked about what OCD was.

Since OCD is a mental disorder you need to see a medical professional to know if you are really suffering from it and how severe it is. Just trying to cure it on your own you may aggravate it so it would be prudent to follow the instructions of an expert like Dr. Vipul Tyagi who is the best psychiatrist in Ghaziabad.

The diagnosis usually comprises of three steps

  • Physical exam
  • Lab test
  • Psychological evaluation

Diagnostic criteria for OCD

Many a time the symptoms of OCD and other mental disorders can be similar and the doctor needs to be extremely careful in his or her diagnosis to term it as OCD. So he or she would ask certain questions and then infer about the patient’s mental condition.

The person with an OCD is found to have certain obsessions like

  • Superstitious ideas like lucky or unlucky numbers, places, etc.
  • Religious obsessions
  • Loses control
  • Always have a feeling of fear and feel responsible for things that go wrong or terrible happenings
  • Unwanted or perverse sexual thoughts and acts
  • Averse to things that are dirty or contaminated

This is just a list of the few symptoms of a person with OCD. There may be much more and each OCD victim is different from the other.

People with such obsessions feel compelled to some kinds of acts like

  • Washing hands or other items repeatedly
  • Checking same things repeatedly
  • Repeating the sentences, words, activities and the like
  • Putting things in order multiple times though they are in order

So when an obsession follows with these compulsions it is the high time a professional is called in and consulted before things get out of hand.


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About Dr.Vipul Tyagi Freshman   Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at Shree Narayan Ho

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