Is OCD a Product of Culture?

Roots of OCD(obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

We all possess some type of compulsive habits, Habits that may or may not have a logical premise.

But how do these habits become obsessive?

The value system of an 'ideal individual' created by the culture or society demands everyone to fit into it. 

One is obsessed with the outcome of each and every action (physical or psychological), even with an experience of a lifetime, with which one may see the impossibility of actions leading to the desired outcome all the time, one still pursues it nevertheless with despair and conflict as an obvious result.

The permanent demand for an order is the one that creates internal disorder

The religious teaching goads one to be a perfect being, and the social structure demands one to imbibe perfectionism.

The dos and don t's of Organised religion and cults brainwashing what to do all the time.......The rights and wrongs...... The divine reward and punishment.

The medical system & state creating a FEAR PSYCHOSIS with a lifestyle, diet and other advisories to avoid disease-causing immense dis-ease

And there are some unfortunate ones who are genetically programmed by birth to take this conditioning to their heart and are LABELED  as O.C.D patients.

O.C.D is an offshoot of anxiety, a desperate psychological effort to avoid a negative or unfavourable outcome. The fear leading to the compulsion of thoughts to fight that fear.

Perfectionism turns out to be pathological as contamination fear now turning into obsessive actions, which are done to quell this unrest in the mind but in fact dragging one into the vicious circle.

As parents, we advocate order and exceptional cleanliness in children and feel proud even if the child is excessively and obsessively serious about it until the 'good habit' is eventually diagnosed as O.C.D

Then there is a religious mania which is a result of years of suppression of so-called bad set of thoughts by good ones, The bad ones or the unholy ones had never disappeared but were waiting to explode after the conflict had reached the crescendo.