Cleanliness addicts are more likely to get sick.
Cleanliness addiction has a lot to do with family inheritance. 70% patients with cleanliness have obsessive-compulsive personality, which is the physiological basis of cleanliness. Long-term mental stress, such as excessive work pressure, strict requirements, or unsatisfactory situation, often worrying about accidents and other external adverse stimuli can also induce cleanliness.
Treatment of cleanliness addiction
1, the "flood therapy" of "fighting poison with poison"
It is difficult for patients with serious cleanliness to calm down by breathing and relaxing. You can try this method. Is to let the patient do what he is afraid of. Trying this method several times a day will push people to the peak of anxiety at first, but with the increase of practice times, anxiety will gradually decline and compulsive behavior will gradually fade. Need to remind the patient's family that patients will feel very painful during the treatment and insist on washing their hands. At this time, family members must prohibit and actively encourage. This is the key to treatment. At the same time, this therapy does not advocate that family members should be alone with patients at home, but needs the assistance of professional psychotherapists, who will guide patients and their families how to treat them step by step.
2. Cognitive therapy
The key of cognitive therapy lies in educational correction.
The rectification starts from several aspects:
1) Find out the causes of cleanliness addiction and eliminate misunderstandings with scientific knowledge.
2) Let patients change their way of thinking, plan and do the main things first.
3) For children, cooperate with parents. Take a scientific parenting style and don't be too strict with children's cleanliness. Let children learn to control their behavior. Give timely praise and rewards to children's good behavior.
3. Aversion therapy
Rubber band method is commonly used. That is to say, let the patient wear a rubber band on his wrist, and once he is about to have compulsive action or behavior, let him play with the rubber band for dozens or even hundreds of times until the compulsive concept disappears and pain appears, thus achieving the purpose of restraining compulsive behavior.
At present, systematic desensitization therapy is widely used to treat cleanliness addiction.
Usually, under the guidance of a psychotherapist, patients will write down their fears, scenes and things they often do in turn from light to heavy, and then control their behavior from the easiest things every day. For example, by reducing the number of times of washing hands every day, from the original 30 times a day, each time washing 10 minutes, to 20 times, each time 7 minutes, until only washing hands before and after meals, each time no more than 3 minutes. During the treatment, patients may feel particularly uncomfortable, but they need to endure pain. They can do some relaxation training or distract themselves through exercise. Generally, after several months of treatment, patients will feel really relaxed.
Modern people's life is stressful, and many mental illnesses are caused by stress. The most common mental illness is cleanliness addiction. Many patients don't think this is a disease, and think that they love cleanliness more than others. In fact, friends who love cleanliness too much should be aware of their psychological problems, which are psychological diseases that need treatment. Without treatment, they can't guarantee a better quality of life.