OCD, is known as a group of behavioural disturbances, yet is also a distinct underlying and inappropriate anxiety.
OCD (short for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), is caused by the culmination of a multitude of underlying sources. When an anxiety repsonse gives rise to a 'what if' risk assessment thoughts that developed naturally (maybe even genetically) in humans, to help locate, analyse and respond to any potential risk. So, in a way, it has to do with basic preservation instincs becoming too tight, causing overdrive and some levels of disfunctions.
In high anxiety conditions in which the anxiety response (the intinctive flight-or-fight tendency) gets locked on, no REAL risk is actually present. The 'what if' thoughts can then form a connection with ANYTHING within the endurer's environment. Normal and appropriate risks such as contamination, turning lights or the gas off and other routine daily concerns, may often become the subjects of an endurer's obsessive focus. Sometimes it can be other things such as people's beaviour or mere presence, obscure objects and even physical attributes.
Once the 'risk factor' has been identified, it becomes embellished by the endurer's creative intellect. When this anxious cycle is established, it tend to become self perpetuating. So, it might be easy to see how 'what if' thoughts of the anxiety response can bloom to develop into anxious obsessions relating to health,cleaning, sexuality, religion, aggression, sexual thoughts, contamination, switching things off and many, many others. The core anxiety which fuels OCD can present itself in other ways too. One such example is panic attacks and also phobias such as agoraphobia, for example.
OCD sufferers tend to carry out rituals or, rather, compulsions fuelled by their fear that not carrying them out will result in a worse and 'catastrophic' outcome.
It Might be understandable to see here how OCD sufferers feel that carrying out their compulsions will somehow prevent something bad from occurring, and so their compulsions become part of their daily routines. Although they may be aware and know that their behaviour is inappropriate they feel it hard or unable to change.
The better part is that by eliminating the underlying causes of anxiety, which is the cause of OCD, the sufferers can quite quickly be released from their compulsions.
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