[FAQ]疑似强迫症Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

（以下是我和某位顾客的FAQ问与答）
女士A：我的妹妹半年前开始突然变得很奇怪，开始一直洗手，害怕脏东西和担心使用他人的私人用品。她也不敢出外使用厕所，每天一

定要确认自己做了一系列清理身体的动作才愿意出门。这严重影响了她的正常作息，甚至她的脾气也变得很暴躁。我们透过朋友介绍找到了你，可以告诉我现在该怎么做吗？

我的回答：
虽然我不会标签你妹妹任何病症，但依你的形容，她很可能面对强迫症问题。强迫症是很常见的问题，许多人都体验过一些轻微的强迫症症状；一直反复检查车子有没有锁好等等。当然，强迫症有许多种不同的心态，不一定是重复洗手而已（可以联络我告知你的情形）。

 

而你的妹妹，半年前很可能发生了一些事情，这些事情或许是很偶然或很简单的一句话。很可能这一句话，当事人的意识状态上也忘了是什么。当然详细的原因我会再和你妹妹详谈。运用临床催眠，可以帮助他们调整心理和潜意识的情绪状态。除了心理情绪等方面，生理方面的状态也不可忽视。而生物反馈仪器可以透过安全，非侵入性的方式去改变个人的脑电波与教导当事人的脑袋学习控制自己的脑电波。脑电波和一个人的行为与想法是息息相关的。
通过改变脑电波，可以改变一个人的习惯与大脑功能；如想法变得更正面等。
我的中心是不使用任何西药的，但在了解你妹妹的情况后，除了安排她做ESTeck Screening探测她的serotonin level，我也可以和顺势疗法医生探讨并给与你顺势疗法药物（不是西药，无副作用）。在透过心理，生理和顺势疗法的治疗下，通常都会有很好的疗效。我也会教导你妹妹如何自我催眠和其他可以自行减轻烦恼的技巧。因为我最终的目的是希望顾客不再需要依赖我，也可以继续过他们美好的人生。

Obsession symptoms

OCD obsessions are repeated, persistent and unwanted urges or images that cause distress or anxiety. You might try to get rid of them by performing a compulsion or ritual. These obsessions typically intrude when you're trying to think of or do other things.

Obsessions often have themes to them, such as:

• Fear of contamination or dirt
• Having things orderly and symmetrical
• Aggressive or horrific thoughts about harming yourself or others
• Unwanted thoughts, including aggression, or sexual or religious subjects

Examples of obsession signs and symptoms include:

• Fear of being contaminated by shaking hands or by touching objects others have touched
• Doubts that you've locked the door or turned off the stove
• Intense stress when objects aren't orderly or facing a certain way
• Images of hurting yourself or someone else
• Thoughts about shouting obscenities or acting inappropriately
• Avoidance of situations that can trigger obsessions, such as shaking hands
• Distress about unpleasant sexual images repeating in your mind

Compulsion symptoms

OCD compulsions are repetitive behaviors that you feel driven to perform. These repetitive behaviors are meant to prevent or reduce anxiety related to your obsessions or prevent something bad from happening. However, engaging in the compulsions brings no pleasure and may offer only a temporary relief from anxiety.

You may also make up rules or rituals to follow that help control your anxiety when you're having obsessive thoughts. These compulsions are often not rationally connected to preventing the feared event.

As with obsessions, compulsions typically have themes, such as:

• Washing and cleaning
• Counting
• Checking
• Demanding reassurances
• Following a strict routine
• Orderliness

Examples of compulsion signs and symptoms include:

• Hand-washing until your skin becomes raw
• Checking doors repeatedly to make sure they're locked
• Checking the stove repeatedly to make sure it's off
• Counting in certain patterns
• Silently repeating a prayer, word or phrase
• Arranging your canned goods to face the same way

Symptoms usually begin gradually and tend to vary in severity throughout your life. Symptoms generally worsen when you're experiencing more stress. OCD, considered a lifelong disorder, can be so severe and time-consuming that it becomes disabling.

Most adults recognize that their obsessions and compulsions don't make sense, but that's not always the case. Children may not understand what's wrong.

When to see a doctor

There's a difference between being a perfectionist and having OCD. OCD thoughts aren't simply excessive worries about real problems in your life. Perhaps you keep the floors in your house so clean that you could eat off them. Or you like your knickknacks arranged just so. That doesn't necessarily mean that you have OCD.

If your obsessions and compulsions are affecting your quality of life, see your doctor or mental health provider. People with OCD may be ashamed and embarrassed about the condition, but treatment can help. 

(Source: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/ocd/basics/symptoms/con-20027827)

Social anxiety disorder (social phobia)

Social anxiety disorder affects your emotions and behavior. It can also cause significant physical symptoms.
Emotional and behavioral social anxiety disorder signs and symptoms include:

• Intense fear of interacting with strangers
• Fear of situations in which you may be judged
• Worrying about embarrassing or humiliating yourself
• Fear that others will notice that you look anxious
• Anxiety that disrupts your daily routine, work, school or other activities
• Avoiding doing things or speaking to people out of fear of embarrassment
• Avoiding situations where you might be the center of attention
• Difficulty making eye contact
• Difficulty talking

Physical social anxiety disorder signs and symptoms include:

• Blushing
• Sweating
• Trembling or shaking
• Fast heartbeat
• Upset stomach
• Nausea
• Shaky voice
• Muscle tension
• Confusion
• Diarrhea
• Cold, clammy hands

Worrying about having symptoms

When you have social anxiety disorder, you realize that your anxiety or fear is out of proportion to the situation. Yet you're so worried about developing social anxiety disorder symptoms that you avoid situations that may trigger them. This type of worrying creates a vicious cycle that can make symptoms worse.

Common, everyday experiences that may be difficult to endure when you have social anxiety disorder include:

• Using a public restroom or telephone
• Returning items to a store
• Interacting with strangers
• Writing in front of others
• Making eye contact
• Entering a room in which people are already seated
• Ordering food in a restaurant
• Being introduced to strangers
• Initiating conversations

Social anxiety disorder symptoms can change over time. They may flare up if you're facing a lot of stress or demands. Or if you completely avoid situations that would usually make you anxious, you may not have symptoms. Although avoidance may allow you to feel better in the short term, your anxiety is likely to persist over the long term if you don't get treatment.
Source: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/social-anxiety-disorder/basics/symptoms/con-20032524 

Treating Anxiety Symptoms with Biofeedback?

Managing anxiety symptoms is on the path to treating it. For many who suffer from an anxiety disorder, they will usually tell you that it never goes away, but they have learned to control it so that the symptoms are less overwhelming.

Biofeedback therapy is a highly effective research-based treatment for anxiety disorders. The individual is taught how to properly respond to their anxiety and it is one of the ways he or she can learn how to manage and control it without the use of medications.

Biofeedback gives the anxious person the opportunity to view his or her physiological responses to stress. When a person becomes anxious, some of the changes that will be displayed visually and audibly with the use of noninvasive instruments are:

• increases in heart rate
• hands becoming cold and clammy
• rapid or shallow breathing
• skin temperature
• muscle tension
• EEG showing higher activity for hi-beta waves in the brain (these waves increase when the mind is stressed)
• loss of metabolic activity in frontal lobe (showing higher activity in the emotional centers of the mid-brain)

Biofeedback teaches awareness, profound relaxation skills and ways to manage an anxiety attack, as well as ways to recognize, reduce, and control stress responses. It also teaches the individual how to control the brain’s activity and maintain the proper brainwave levels to achieve a calm and focused state. By returning the body to a healthier physiological state, the “foggy head” that anxiety can cause, as well as the feeling of fear and panic throughout the body, are removed.

Source: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2013/07/18/managing-anxiety-with-biofeedback

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Dyslexia 失读症 - 跳动的符号

Dyslexia is a learning disorder characterized by difficulty reading. Also called specific reading disability, dyslexia is a common learning disability in children. Dyslexia occurs in children with normal vision and intelligence. Sometimes, dyslexia goes undiagnosed for years and isn't recognized until adulthood.

Emotional support and opportunities for achievement in activities that don't involve reading are important for children with dyslexia. If your child has dyslexia:

• Be supportive. Trouble learning to read may affect your child's self-esteem. Be sure to express your love and support. Encourage your child by praising his or her talents and strengths.
• Talk to your child. Explain to your child what dyslexia is and that it's not a failure on his or her part. The better your child understands this, the better he or she will be able to cope with having a learning disability.
• Take steps to help your child learn at home. Provide a clean, quiet, organized place for your child to study, and designate a study time. Also, make sure your child gets enough rest and eats regular, healthy meals.
• Stay in contact with your child's teachers. Talk with teachers frequently to make sure your child is able to stay on track. Be sure he or she gets extra time for tests that require reading, if needed. Ask your child's teacher if it would help your child to record the day's lessons to play back later.
• Join a support group. This can help you stay in contact with parents who face similar learning disabilities in their children. Support groups can provide useful information and emotional support. Check with your doctor or your child's reading specialist to find out if there are any support groups in your area. Or, search on the Internet for dyslexia or reading disability support groups.

All the above information is retrieved from http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dyslexia/basics/coping-support/con-20021904

• Biofeedback. This can help you to train your kid's brainwave pattern. At my heatlhcare centre, we can help you to improve your kid's performance. Welcome to drop me an email at [email protected] and discuss your case with me privately.

最近其中一位经诊断患有失读症（Dyslexia）的孩子的情形让我觉得很心痛。

他的情形是属于视觉知觉上的混淆。

她身边的师长亲戚和朋友都不了解他的问题，所以一直被人误会她懒惰读书和有行为偏差问题。

虽然才刚开始疗程不久，但我很期待可以帮到她改善问题！

她很乖很听话的，但她所面对的问题让她读书变得好累好疲倦。

想必不少人都有尝试过在昏暗的环境下去阅读细小的文字吧？

是不是很辛苦呢？

想一想如果你常常被人误会，但没人了解你的苦楚的同时还一直说你在找理由逃避责任。

那种感觉很委屈，很糟糕吧？

如果长期在这样的条件下成长，你的情绪和行为也会受到影响的对不？

所以除了家人的支持和针对脑部的Biofeedback训练，

孩子情绪上的处理也是非常重要的一环。