Anxious_Perfectionist
- Date posted
- 18w
Question 9
can i get OCD from GAD dad???
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 18w
Just to make sure, do you mean general anxiety disorder? Also do you mean getting OCD by heredity or exposure? Usually OCD has a higher chance to be passed down with heredity if one of their parents or even grandparents (is a gamble if DNA when a disorder appears down the family tree). OCD can also occur from environment but I'm not as well verse on that side of the argument such as how often and studies done with that as I've had people shared they claim it was from brain injury, near death experiences, trauma etc. The idea the brain got so scared it starts obsessing how to behave to fix things. But there's a line to determine the difference between OCD and PTSD which requires a guidance from expert to help assess that without OCD and PTSD arguing about why and how it happened. The difficult answer is it's too unclear to know if it is. The short answer is that's not a reliable correlation to causation. Hard answer is OCD makes it feel very important as if this answer will connect to closure and insight when no matter what the answer is, it's not about why or how it happens, it's what happened to what do you want to happen now. Example OCD makes me worry about my dad's view of me, I no longer want to worry about what others view of me and have the freedom to choose what I want to do even if I am still anxious or hurt, which can lead to be in the space to be in the discomfort to find the comfort sitting there "failure is not the opposite of success, failure is a price you pay to become someone better".
Anxious_PerfectionistAnxious_Perf...
- Date posted
- 18w
The oven exploded on the first day in my new house. is that a trauma?
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 18w
@★𝐘𝐚𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞★ That can be traumatic yet may not be diagnosed as PTSD as it requires a list of criterias alongside an expert to avoid misinterpreting the person explaining their experience. However tips for handling PTSD can be helpful either way such as adding a joke to the event such as "Wow I didn't expect to have the Sims expansion game added to this house." Some people are able to help process the shock by defining their feelings or cleaning up the oven mess. Anything that allows time to be in the present to recognize an event happened and ended. No new stories to be attached including what to do next time. Yes it can help to think what to do to prevent it yet very little things we do have any influence on actual prevention and we can only be in the place of learning if we're kind to ourselves. GAD trips on planning too often yet never really deciding if a plan is needed and when it's enough thinking invested in order to no longer feel anxious. Which generally anxiousness rarely reaches to not feeling any at all especially by thinking it away. Actions despite anxiety helps lessen anxiety. OCD trips on what superstition is needed to be done in order to feel safe even if it doesn't allow anyone to be safe. Actions even thinking rarely reaches to the feeling fully safe, so being with the emotions help lessen the discomfort even without promise of safety.
#Lexiriri#Lexiriri
- Date posted
- 18w
I guess technically you possibly could, scientists actually don’t know what causes OCD. Something’s scientists think might play a role in having it is environmental factors like trauma or bullying, possibly a genetic link (though there isn’t a gene that we know of that causes OCD) of some sort, or people who already have a mental health condition could be predisposed to it. It’s likely a mix of things that cause it but scientists don’t know for sure what causes it. There is also a rare phenomenon called Pandas which is an autoimmune disorder kids can get after having a strep infection and for some reason a lot of OCD cases in children are linked to Pandas. No idea why though. Anyway all of this is my long way to say yeah maybe you got it from your dad like maybe you were predisposed to it somehow, also maybe not, no one really knows mystery of science.
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