Thursday, May 10, 2012


What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by uncontrollable, unwanted thoughts and repetitive, ritualized behaviors you feel compelled to perform. If you have OCD, you probably recognize that your obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors are irrational – but even so, you feel unable to resist them and break free.
Like a needle getting stuck on an old record, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) causes the brain to get stuck on a particular thought or urge. 
Obsessions are involuntary, seemingly uncontrollable thoughts, images, or impulses that occur over and over again in your mind. You don’t want to have these ideas but you can’t stop them. Unfortunately, these obsessive thoughts are often disturbing and distracting.
Compulsions are behaviors or rituals that you feel driven to act out again and again. Usually, compulsions are performed in an attempt to make obsessions go away. For example, if you’re afraid of contamination, you might develop elaborate cleaning rituals. However, the relief never lasts. In fact, the obsessive thoughts usually come back stronger. And the compulsive behaviors often end up causing anxiety themselves as they become more demanding and time-consuming.
Most people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) fall into one of the following categories:
  • Washers are afraid of contamination. They usually have cleaning or hand-washing compulsions.
  • Checkers repeatedly check things (oven turned off, door locked, etc.) that they associate with harm or danger.
  • Doubters and sinners are afraid that if everything isn’t perfect or done just right something terrible will happen or they will be punished.
  • Counters and arrangers are obsessed with order and symmetry. They may have superstitions about certain numbers, colors, or arrangements.
  • Hoarders fear that something bad will happen if they throw anything away. They compulsively hoard things that they don’t need or use

Signs and symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

Most people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have both obsessions and compulsions, but some people experience just one or the other.

OCD signs and symptoms: Obsessive thoughts

Common obsessive thoughts in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) include:
  • Fear of being contaminated by germs or dirt or contaminating others.
  • Fear of causing harm to yourself or others.
  • Intrusive sexually explicit or violent thoughts and images.
  • Excessive focus on religious or moral ideas.
  • Fear of losing or not having things you might need.
  • Order and symmetry: the idea that everything must line up “just right.”
  • Superstitions; excessive attention to something considered lucky or unlucky.

OCD signs and symptoms: Compulsive behaviors

Common compulsive behaviors in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) include:
  • Excessive double-checking of things, such as locks, appliances, and switches.
  • Repeatedly checking in on loved ones to make sure they’re safe.
  • Counting, tapping, repeating certain words, or doing other senseless things to reduce anxiety.
  • Spending a lot of time washing or cleaning.
  • Ordering or arranging things “just so.”
  • Praying excessively or engaging in rituals triggered by religious fear.
  • Accumulating “junk” such as old newspapers or empty food containers.

a few of GENERAL RISK FACTORS FOR ANXIETY DISORDERS

Gender. With the exception of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), women have twice the risk for most anxiety disorders as men. A number of factors may increase the reported risk in women, including cultural pressures to meet everyone else's needs except their own, and fewer self-restrictions on reporting anxiety to doctors.
Age. In general, phobias, OCD and separation anxiety show up early in childhood, while social phobia and panic disorder are often diagnosed during the teen years. Studies suggest that 3 - 5% of children and adolescents have some anxiety disorder. Children and adolescents who have an anxiety disorder are at risk of later developing other anxiety disorders, depression, and substance abuse.
Personality Factors. Children's personalities may indicate higher or lower risk for future anxiety disorders. For example, research suggests that extremely shy children and those likely to be the target of bullies are at higher risk for developing anxiety disorders later in life. Children who cannot tolerate uncertainty tend to be worriers, a major predictor of generalized anxiety. In fact, such traits may be biologically based and due to a hypersensitive amygdala -- the "fear center" in the brain.
Family History and Dynamics. Anxiety disorders tend to run in families. Genetic factors may play a role in some cases, but family dynamics and psychological influences are also often at work. Several studies show a strong correlation between a parent's fears and those of the offspring. Although an inherited trait may be present, some researchers believe that many children can "learn" fears and phobias, just by observing a parent or loved one's phobic or fearful reaction to an event.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Kenapa Saya Suka Oh! Media Network

Kenape? Kenape? Best sangat ke network ni sampai tajuk nak excited sangat?

Tapi memang best pon. Sape kate tak best sah sah pendengki semate. LOL =p


(Ade kene mengene dengan entry)



So why am I sangat suka dengan Oh! Media ni? adekah kerane die ade OH! maka nampak cool? Kihkihkih


#1. Anak Melayu kiterr
Oh! Media Network ini adelah sebuah syarikat yang di founded kan pada November 2008 oleh anak Melayu kite yang masih muda belia bernama Khai. Sape tak kenal blog die JustKhai tuh?! Beliau ni dulu merupekan awarded student by Limkokwing University & Hewlett Packard in 2008. Bukan senang kot nak dapat award lebih lebih dekat U yang banyak kaum lain, compettition sengit amat. Memang haruslah bangge sebab selalu Melayu orang kait dengan Malas. Sangat stereotaip pemikiran ini. Tapi bukankah dengan kewujudan Oh! Media ini membuktikan Melayu kite juge sangat boleh diharap? Dan difahamkan ianya adalah 100% made in Malaysian. Eh berwawasan betul lah si Khai ini. Dan tidak lupa krew2 beliau juga. Yey

#2. Memaparkan isu semasa secara pantas
Serious cakap memang bila bukak fb, selain daripade tengok wall home, page pertama yang akan terus di-search adelah Oh! Media. Kira selain suka stalk page individu ehem ehem, page OM ni juga turut jadi mangsa aku stalk kategori fanpage. Sebabnye apa apa isu semase yang menarik mesti ada update baru dekat sana. Selalunya yang berkait dengan persekitaran Malaysia yang di ambil dari sumber2 sahih seperti di scan khas dari sughak kabor. So jika tak sempat beli sughakkabor di kedai mahupun paper-online web lambat loading, bolehlah baca di OM. Sesuai untuk yang hanye minat column hiburan dan sukan. Politik ke perdagangan ke ekonomi ke memang tadak la. Sila beralih ke page laen timekaseh. LOL


#3. Promote bahan terbaek dari ladang.
Oh yang ni paling difevreti. Oh! Media ni memang the best bab2 share video2 ke gambar2 ke link2 ke yang berunsur lawak lagi comel lagi gedik. Banyak benda yang tak rase pernah terfikir pun, tibatiba baru tahu woh wujud rupenye bende ini diatas muka bumi takku sangka. Kalau rase macam mate tibe tibe berpinar dek lingkaran hitam panda disekeliling, bolehlah buka page ini dan cuci mata dengan segala bahan yang di share. Pasti terus segar lalu berusaha menyiapkan esaimen dengan penuh bergaya. yang aku fevret adelah penayangan nombor plat kerete yang telampau unik.

Patriotik kan ? Semangat ini yang kite mahu.


#4. Banyak info tentang teknologi
Dah kalau si founder tu student terbaek multimedia, memang tak rugi jike melawat blog beliau di justkhai.com. Serius untuk kanak kanak buta IT macam saye pun boleh tetibe rase terrer IT lepas bace info tips2 pasal teknologi komputer, sesawang, dan sekutu dengannya di blog itu. Apatah lagi bagi para penggemar gadget tegar, mengunjungi blog tersebut adelah kemestian demi memantapkan ilmu pengkomputeran penggadgetan pengteknologian.

#5. Sempoi untuk bacaan umum
Yang ni memang sah2 la. Sape yang suke bace ayat skematik? Ingat persatuan bahase melayu ke ape? Bagi aku Oh! Media ni dia punya bahasa sangat dekat dihati (pewwit pewwit). Tak skema, tak kwajak. Sedang sedang je. Lepastu kalau kena kondem dengan fans, mesti cool je. Takde plak setakat ni aku tengok depa melenting dalam page tu. Kire steady macho la tu. Kahkah.

Aku agak lepas korang bace ni mesti terus teruje nak pi tengok ape hebat nau Oh! Oh! ni kan. Haa ni amik ni. : Oh! Media Terbaek dari Ladang!!