Alternative Treatments for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Types of OCD
In our world, every one wants a name for their health condition. A disease diagnosis is a name that is given to a group of conditions and symptoms.
Often the cause is the same. For instance, yeast. Usually people think of women having vaginal yeast infections. However, if yeast is in the throat, it is called thrush. If yeast is in the toes or feet, it is nail fungus or athlete's foot. In the blood stream, non EPV chronic fatigue.
If you get the body 100% excess yeast free, all of these health conditions would not exist.
That is also true for a thin myelin. A thin myelin causes OCD, but it can also cause other conditions. Some people think they have to wash their hands and be afraid of germs to
have OCD. This is not the case at all. Let's examine the different types
of OCD.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsession is unwanted persistant feelings or thoughts to an excessive degree. Compulsion is an impulse or tendency to perform an act which is beyond the ability to resist.
Checking
Often those who have this type of OCD need to check that they did something. For instance, did they turn off the curling iron? They turned it off once, but have a strong need to double check or triple check or more. Often this compulsion comes from fear of not being able to trust their memory. People report that they have an unreal type of feeling; they know that they turned the curling iron off, but they can't be sure.
My theory on why this happens is in my book, below is an excerp.
Let us take for example, deciding to lock the door. The brain releases an electrical impulse to lock the door. The impulse goes to the synapse, where a chemical (neurotransmitter) is released. The next nerve ganglia draw it up, which travels down the nerve chain until it gets to the muscle in the hand and the hand locks the door.
When the hand has locked the door, an impulse goes from the hand up the nerve chain to tell the brain the mission is accomplished.
If the myelin is too thin, it is not able to release enough of the neurotransmitters to get the "mission accomplished" impulse back to the brain. If the neurotransmitters are released less than 100% between each ganglia, the impulse may be dulled or fade away.
Although consciously the person knows they have locked
the door, their subconscious is not sure; so the brain sends out the
signal again to lock the door. Since the brain is not getting all the input of what the
body is doing, it has a difficult time. Rears and uncertainties might
develop.
Need It To Feel Right
For some Anxiety is a big part of OCD.
To feel okay. they need to play out the compulsion. To not act on the
compulsion will produce more anxiety than they can tolerate.
As strange as it may seem we had a cat
who had this type of OCD. She would clean her paws and then move
on to her neck, etc. If you would touch her paw after she cleaned it,
she would have to start over.
Intrigued by this one day I touched it
several times to see what she would do. Now it got to the point that
she licked almost all the fur off of that part of her paw. By the way,
I would never had done that had I known she would have had such a reaction.
Contamination. Often causing the need
to clean or wash hands excessively. Included in this is the hand washing,
wearing rubber gloves or using disinfectives.
Counting constantly either outwardly or
in your head.
Arranging or organizing in an extreme
orderly fashion. For example having to put all the heads of the play
money in the same direction.
Needing to do rituals or things a certain
number of times.
Making a list - Although making a list
is an important tool, unless you can not do something without first
making a list.
Hoarding things often of no apparent value.
For example: buttons which you will never need, or broken things. Often
children will hoard food.
Need of order or symmetry such as aligning
or balancing objects in view. For example the fringe on a rug must all
be straight or things on a dresser must have a mirror spacing on both
sides.
Health obsession for example obsessively
checking onself or ones children for a disease to feel safe.
Having a hard time using something unless
you have a back up. For example buying 2 of the same books, one to highlight
and the other which can be new.
Needing for perfection.
Gambling compulsively
Tourettes - unwanted
repetative tics such as motor - jerking muscle movement or vocal - such
as barking, gruntin, or cursing.
Tugging at clothes. Not letting something
touch your skin.
Workaholic - can't stop and smell the
roses. Must be working to feel right.
Time and Action
Being habitually tardy or late. No matter
how important, the person seem incapable of being on time. They will
often be ready early, but end up getting to their destination late.
Procrastinating. For example having your
bills habitually late even if you have the money to pay them. Putting
projects off.
Indeciviness - Not being able to make
a decision. No choice seems right.
In test taking multiple choice is torture
because the OCD sufferer can always find and exception to the rule.
For instance. If the choice is yes and no, and the question is ... Is
grass green. The sufferer might think, well in a drought it can be brown
and there is a Kentucky blue grass.
Asking for reinsurrance over and over.
Included in this is nothing they do is done right, no matter how perfectly
done.
Rituals
Eating rituals - such as avoiding a certain
color, food or ritual such as not letting a fork touch the lips.
Abnormal preoccupation with measuring
food or counting calories.
High Morals
Scrupulosity (worrying excessively that
a person may have done something wrong as it pertains to their religion),
such as: thinking, saying something blasphemous, or worrying that they
had not done a religious ritual respectfully or correctly. Such as repent,
pray etc.
Intrusive or immoral thoughts about sex
or hurting someone keeps popping into thier mind.
Fear of causing phyical harm to someone.
For example: fear of having run someone over with a car, or fear of
hurting your child.
This can either be directly or directly.
The OCD sufferer might fear he is going to physically hurt someone for
example by sufficating them or afraid it might happen if they do not
satisfy a certain compulsion. For example. If they do not start their
car 3 times, they might cause a car accident.
Fear of saying something to make someone
upset.
Phobias
An exaggerated fear or aversion towards something.
Especially:
Agoraphobia
- fear of open places or being around people. Often the person can not
leave their home.
Anorexia Nervosa - (Self starvation) an
eating disorder. (fear of being fat)
Social Anxiety - Strong fear of a large
group of people, excessive fear of social situations, fear of being
embarassed.
Social Phobia - Strong fear of a large
group of people, excessive fear of social situations, fear of being
embarassed.
MISCELLANEOUS
ADD
(Attention Deficeit Disorder) - The inability to focus or keep attention
on one task)
Anxiety
Disorder - Excessive worry or fear, which can accompany increased
heart rate, dizziness, shortness or breath, hyperventalation, heart
pains, sweating or choking sensation.
Bi Polar - Manic Depressive. Being emotionally
either very up or very down no middle ground.
Bulimia - (forced vomiting or purging)
an eating disorder.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) - Repulsion
for ones looks or certain physical attribute.
Self Harm - Cutting - Self-Mutilative
Behavior - Cutting, burning or injuring ones own body
Mild Schizophrenia - Abnormal thinking,
loss of contact with reality - usually seeing and hearing things which
are not there.
Trichotillomania - pulling out of ones
hair.
Panic attacks - extreme anxiety which
can accompanied by an increased heart rate, dizziness, shortness or
breath, hyperventalation, sweating or choking sensation.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) - The myelin of
the eye, brain and spinal cord becomes thin or scarred disrupting nerve
impulses and body movement.
Nail biting and skin picking.
Having an excessive need for rules, lists
and schedules.
Conclusion
Often times an OCD sufferer will have
an obsession or a compulsion and at least 80% of OCD sufferers
have both.
Often the Obsessions or Compulsions can
shift. Exchanging an old one for a new one.
As you can see there are many more symptoms
of OCD than washing of the hands. I totally believe that the diagnosis
of OCD, no matter the type is in fact just an indication that the person
has a thin myelin.
Instead of getting hung up on which type
someone has, I suggest they nourish the nervous system and the myelin
protection which covers it.
