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Similaraties with PTSD and OCD

PTSD and OCD have some similarities. A person who has PTSD has to go through a severe trauma in order for them to have PTSD, and it affects them because they try not to think or reflect on their trauma. A person with OCD is a little similar too that. However, they have to disregard those compulsive thoughts or routines they do during the day. They both go through the same process of treatment. Basically, its just exposing them to their rituals (OCD) or exposing them to the traumatic event ( PTSD) and to overcome those fears and compulsions. When OCD has an image of their compulsion it actually triggers them to their ritual and they try to avoid it, because obviously it affects their personal lives in every aspect. And when PTSD has flashbacks or nightmares those images


PTSD patients' tend to build up anxiety as well and start doing things they didn't do before. But they have sexual aggression thoughts and catastrophic thoughts and even consequences if their ritual wasn't accomplished that day. For example, if there is a man and he went to a barber shop and his ear was cut off and from then on he developed PTSD he will probably avoid hair parlors for the rest of his life and everything that it has to do with beauty and hair (scissors, combs, hair spray etc. The treatment for these disorders are very similar. PTSD at some point builds a ritual too. So whenever they are close to that object or event that was part of their trauma they do the same thing as OCD they avoid it! The behavior that PTSD has is over aroused, quickly frightened, and very aggravated. And OCD has different types of behaviors because it varies on their compulsion. OCD and PTSD's cause is a little contradictory in this case. PTSD is caused by a traumatic life event. Why is it that these two disorders are supported by psychological and a biological component and yet, you can get a contradiction only for the cause? Can we say that OCD at some points builds up stress like PTSD and gives them those compulsiveness and obsessions that they feel? There isn't any proof or evidence on what im concluding but maybe they just might be related besides that they are both anxiety disorders. They expose the patient where the traumatic event was held and study the patient's reaction and how he/she overcomes the trauma. The similarities with these two disorders are very good and it can definitely work out as for them being related. And OCD is caused by thoughts that are taken to a realistic measure and from then on it becomes a ritual which becomes a compulsiveness.

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