cause of a disease
Cleanliness addiction comes from heredity to a great extent, and 70% patients have obsessive-compulsive personality, which is the internal psychological basis of cleanliness addiction. In addition, the external social and psychological factors are also a pathogenic factor that cannot be ignored. On the basis of obsessive personality, some people gradually develop cleanliness symptoms, especially when they enter adolescence. The obvious changes in physical development and the inadaptability in the process of increasingly close social communication can lead to the appearance and aggravation of symptoms. There are also some people who induce cleanliness addiction under the bad stimulation of the outside world, including long-term mental stress, such as the change of working and living environment, the aggravation of responsibilities, excessive tension at work, strict requirements, or unsatisfactory situation, and constant fear of accidents; In addition, there are serious mental trauma, such as the death of a close relative, sudden shock, serious accidents, catastrophic bankruptcy and so on.
It is worth noting that family education plays an important role in inducing or aggravating cleanliness addiction. Some patients' parents have obsessive-compulsive personality, which exerts a subtle influence on patients. The patient's family education is strict, rigid and even cold, so the patient is cautious, indecisive, too trivial and meticulous, too rigid and stubborn in dealing with others, and lacks human touch and flexibility. They also excessively demand regular work and rest systems and hygiene habits in their lives, and everything is in good order, and they are anxious when there is a slight change. Some parents are too strict with their children's hygiene requirements and force them to wash their hands repeatedly. This strong suggestion has a greater impact on those neurotic, sensitive and introverted children. Family relocation, death of relatives, divorce of parents or themselves, disharmony in sexual life and other psychological pressures, emotional fluctuations, and serious infection of oneself or others around you can all become the main inducements of cleanliness addiction.
Children whose parents are too strict are prone to cleanliness. Bazin, a professor of psychology in Turkey, pointed out that people who were strictly controlled by their parents in childhood and could not express their personal emotions in time were prone to cleanliness. Cleanliness addiction is not the patent of girls, some boys will suffer from it, and some boys even behave more seriously.
Most patients can point out accidents that happened before his symptoms worsened. Such as family relocation, death of relatives, divorce of parents or themselves, and disharmony in sexual life. Psychological stress and emotional fluctuation caused by the above reasons can be the inducement of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The personality characteristics of patients also play an important role in the occurrence of diseases. According to research, most patients have special personality characteristics: most young patients love to be clean and tidy, obedient, earnest and serious; Adult patients generally have a strong sense of time, abide by discipline and system, have rigid living habits, are too cautious and indecisive, and many people may be superstitious. People with this personality are prone to neurosis due to excessive pressure.
therapeutic method
Treatment: The treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder is mainly psychotherapy, supplemented by medication.
Systematic desensitization therapy: let patients write down their fears, scenes and things they often do from mild to severe, and then control their behavior from the easiest things every day, such as gradually reducing the number and time of hand washing.
Cognitive therapy: The key of cognitive therapy lies in educational correction. Education correction starts from several aspects:
1. Find out the causes of cleanliness addiction and eliminate misunderstandings with scientific knowledge.
2, let patients change their way of thinking, have a plan and do the main things first.
For children, we should cooperate with parents. Take a scientific parenting style and don't be too strict with children's cleanliness. Let children learn to control their behavior. Give timely praise and rewards to children's good behavior.