Hello, I am troubled. Basically when I do any thing or any work. I have negative thought creeping in my mind. Eg. If I am working on my computer. Negative thought will come. Like if I do not pass the same entry again, something bad will happen with me or my loved ones. When I do brush. I think that if I don't do it for 6tyms. Something wrong will happen. All this is troubling me from 5-6 years now. Earlier I didn't pay much attention when I wasn't working. But now my work lyf and educational lyf is being affected. Because I get irritated and miffed with this habit of mine. Similarly when I try to watch any Intimate scene. My heart beat increases at a higher rate. Thought comes to my mind. That I am wrong if I am watching it. Or the people in the video are wrong. They are doing wrong. Many a tyms I am being affected due to it. Kindly help. What my problem is and what is it's cause. Iis it Anxiety disorder or something. Hope a psychologist replies and guide me. I. 23 .male. please help and suggest.

Dr. Saul PereiraPsychologist46yrs exp

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You are developing OCD and need immediate help. Meet with a counselor first and then if that person recommends a psychiatrist to deal with this issue, do visit one as soon as possible. Please take your parents with you to determine the possible developmental issues that may have contributed to this condition. This is a fear-based condition and for some reason you have not been dealing with this childhood fear which has now developed unto these repetitive adaptations to seem to need it for normal functioning. The behavior will then become based on magical thinking and certain rituals will become necessary to do normal things making you believe that either the frequency or the ritual is important to its success. This of course is a fallacy but there will come a time that even if told the truth, your belief will defy any logic and you will continue behaving like that even if it cripples you in your daily routines. It only appears as though some other force is behind these behaviors and that you are compelled to act in this fashion. That is obviously not true but no one can convince you of anything different. The obsession is a repeating thought pattern with no meaningful outcome; and the compulsiveness is the need to act on those obsessions also in a repeated behavior pattern as though you just cannot help yourself. There are certain behavioral techniques to be implemented and if they work you may get out of this condition rather easily. If that does not work as desired, then medication has to be introduced, and in combination with counseling much work can be achieved. Some of your thinking is bordering on magical thinking and your belief that certain behaviour will affect an outcome!  

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