OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER IS ABOUT FEAR
OCD which stands for obsessive compulsive behavior is such a gigantic subject with so many tentacles that I will just speak to what I have learned through personal experience because all OCD sufferers share a common nucleus in their disease. Fear. It is the root of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It applies to all sufferers no matter how disconnected they are. We all share the same root cause. Fear. Whether your OCD manifests itself through commonly understood actions like continual hand washing, checking the door lock, counting to 1000 before you can fall asleep, and thousands of other acts, or, if your OCD lives strictly in your brain by unchangeable thoughts of hurting your friend, jumping across a pond of alligators, or challenging a prize fighter to a boxing match it's the same mental disorder. OCD is entirely rooted in fear of doing the unknown. Its an urge to perform some action to get relief. An action to take away an urge however rational or irrational it is. We have