Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

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Doubts, worries, superstitious beliefs are usually common in everyday life, but when they come so excessive then a diagnosis of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is made. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a medical brain disorder that causes problems in information processing. Before medicine, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder was thought to be untreatable. Most people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder continue to suffer. Today, treatment can help most people with Obsessive Compu7lsive Disorder.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder usually involves having both obsessions and compulsions, though a person with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder may sometimes have only one or the other. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder can start from preschool to adulthood, but usually by the age of forty. One-third to one-half of adults with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder report that it started during childhood, but Obsessive Compulsive Disorder often goes unrecognized. On an average, most people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder seek treatment for nine years before they actually receive a correct diagnosis.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder often tends to be under diagnosed or untreated for a number of reasons. People with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder may have a lack of knowledge about their treatment or they maybe secretive about it. Also, many health care providers are not familiar with the symptoms or they are not trained in providing appropriate treatment.

This is unfortunate because proper treatment can help people avoid depression or marital and work problems.

There is no single, proven cause for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Research indicates that Obsessive Compulsive Disorder involves problems in communication between the front part of the brain and deeper structures. Serotonin is what these brain structures use. It is a theory that insufficient levels of serotonin are prominently involved in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Drugs that increase the brain concentration of serotonin often helps improve Obsessive Compulsive Disorder symptoms. Although it seems clear that reduced levels of...