Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Vs Depression
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is often mistaken for a type of depression. Granted, when I do research on OCD and how it differs from depression, my eyes tend to glaze over. People who have OCD often have depression, too. Depression never likes to be alone and often brings a few other diseases and illnesses, too. But depression and OCD are two different mental illnesses, although they are often treated with the same medications.
That Hand-Washing Thing
People with OCD often can hold down a job, but only after going through certain rituals. (Just ask Howie Mandel). The most famous (or infamous) of these rituals is washing your hands more time than you breathe. Rituals can be anything from handwashing to repeating a certain word a certain number of times to making sure that all of the fringes on rugs lay in acertain way.
We all do rituals. Many people say a blessing of some sort over dinner. Others make a wish berfore blowing out birthday candles. These are rituals. But most people tend to not feel as if the sky will fall if they don’t perform these rituals. People with OCD take well over an hour a day just to perform these rituals.
With depression (or at least clinical depression) you don’t want to do much of anything, let alone rituals. There isn’t much of a point doing rituals to stop the sky from falling because it’s already crashed and burned long ago.
Treatments
Treatments for OCD and depression tend to merge. Both can be put on tricyclic or SSRI antidepressants and then urged to seek cognitive-behavior therapy in order to help adjust their thoughts and habits. It’s still controversial as to whether shock therapy gives any long term help for either the worst types of depression or OCD. It is used only if drugs and talk therapy are completely useless.
Another similarity is that people with depression and/or OCD can eventually mange it.
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