The problem is the sheer amount of time and effort taken up by these kind of rituals when taken to extremes, for example in obsessive compulsive disorder.
Quoting from http://www.ocduk.org/1/ocd.htm :
"To some degree OCD-type symptoms are probably experienced at one time or another by most people, especially in times of stress. However, the illness can have a totally devastating effect on work, social life and personal relationships. The World Health Organisation (WHO) even ranks OCD as the tenth most disabling illness of any kind, in terms of lost earnings and diminished quality of life."
"in general, sufferers experience repetitive, intrusive and unwelcome thoughts, images, impulses and doubts which ... cause the person to perform repetitive compulsions in a vain attempt to relieve themselves of the obsessions and neutralise the fear. ...
"Sufferers try to fight these thoughts with mental or physical rituals...
"Most sufferers know that their thoughts and behaviour are irrational and senseless, but feel incapable of stopping them. This has a significant impact on their confidence and self-esteem and as a result, their careers, relationships and lifestyles."
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Date: 2007-05-20 10:03 pm (UTC)The problem is the sheer amount of time and effort taken up by these kind of rituals when taken to extremes, for example in obsessive compulsive disorder.
Quoting from http://www.ocduk.org/1/ocd.htm :
"To some degree OCD-type symptoms are probably experienced at one time or another by most people, especially in times of stress. However, the illness can have a totally devastating effect on work, social life and personal relationships. The World Health Organisation (WHO) even ranks OCD as the tenth most disabling illness of any kind, in terms of lost earnings and diminished quality of life."
"in general, sufferers experience repetitive, intrusive and unwelcome thoughts, images, impulses and doubts which ... cause the person to perform repetitive compulsions in a vain attempt to relieve themselves of the obsessions and neutralise the fear. ...
"Sufferers try to fight these thoughts with mental or physical rituals...
"Most sufferers know that their thoughts and behaviour are irrational and senseless, but feel incapable of stopping them. This has a significant impact on their confidence and self-esteem and as a result, their careers, relationships and lifestyles."
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