What Are Myths and Misconceptions About OCD? (0:51)
The most common myth about obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is that it's in the patient's head and they can just decide not to be affected. In this video, HealthMaker Jerry Bubrick, PhD, of the Child Mind Institute, discusses this myth.
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One is that it's just it's in someone 's head technically everything it's in our head right, but the idea that I can just one day I can just decide not to do my hand washing just because I'm being ridiculous about it or I'm thinking about something else and I can just turn it off, right, you would never ask someone just to turn their diabetes and not be diabetic anymore.
I think that people will often misunderstand why people are doing their rituals like we had talked about before if I'm washing my hands, because I am worried about germs, people might think that I'm therefore very I am liking to have cleanliness new order in my life, so I think there's this misconception that anybody who washes their hands is a clean person or needs order.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a mental illness where frequent obsessive thoughts cause obsessive, destructive actions like hand-washing. Counseling and medications can help patients manage OCD.
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