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Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to nobody wrote Mark Twain. Twain's observation is true to all human beings. Every human being has different sides in his persona and many things attribute to this. In a man personality is a deeply engraved pattern of behavior that includes his ways of understanding, relating and thinking about one self and the surrounding environment.

Personality traits are normally aspects of a personality. Personality disorder occur when these personality traits become abnormal inflexible unadaptive and cause sufficient social or occupational impairment along with a lot of personal dishes.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder in one such personality disorder, which is characterized by anxious thoughts or rituals, which the patient feels he or she cannot control. It strikes men and women in equal numbers and affects about 1 in every 50 people.


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Posted by:  ocdmesh  Posted on: 09/14/2011
According to www.ocdmesh.com, the most effective treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder is often cognitive-behavioral therapy. The behavioral portion of this psychological treatment for people with OCD involves exposing the OCD patient to situations that will trigger the obsessions. For example, if the patient is obsessed with cleaning, he/she will be put in a situation that will cause the patient to want to behave in a certain way to address the ‘cleaning’ impulse. Subsequently, the cognitive portion of this therapy comes when the OCD patient is asked to abstain from the impulses. He/she is taught how to react to their uncontrolled obsessions— thoughts, feelings, ideas, and sensations, among others— and avoid performing their urging compulsions. Additionally, this last component integrates learning how to prevent and/or control the anxiety that emerges with OCD. Visit www.ocdmesh.com for more information!



Posted by:  Muthuraman  Posted on: 07/15/2011
sir i am taking past 5 years pPRODEP 20mg tablet but still i suffering from this disorder please help me...



Posted by:  suzane_fadrik  Posted on: 09/30/2010
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality disorder tends to occur in families, so genes may be involved. Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder most often occurs in men. Anxiety Disorders such as generalized Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Social Phobia, Specific Phobias, Mood Disorders, and Eating Disorders often co-occur with this disorder.




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