Obsessiveness

Obsessiveness (intrusiveness) is a personality trait consisting in its tendency to fixate on long-existing objects (both internal and external), and also accompanied by various negative emotional experiences when an object is lost.

Description “Acute, unyielding, vivid obsession” O.V. Personalities and obsessions constitute an essential part of psychopathology. To a certain extent, they develop in parallel and “in the same corridor” they come to the clinic of neuroses, but at the same time they constitute their specificity. The commonality of schizoid and paranoid symptoms lies only in the fact that a certain amount of them is present in most syndromes, or approximately enough so that the process of personality disintegration proceeds on an equal footing in its depths. All other symptoms of this series are much less common in pathology. When describing in detail the characteristics of obsessive-compulsive disorders and individual groups of obsessions and compulsions, it would be useful to remind patients with schizophrenia that such experiences are the topic of a special pathopsychology course at the institute for patients with schizophrenia and medical students. Let us note in passing that all obsessions look reckless to those who have experienced them for the first time, but they require considerable time and patient work of a psychotherapist before any of them are more or less corrected. The skill of this work is easy to master - read observations about obsessions

Obsession or compulsion is an uncontrollable behavior that is usually not associated with a person's logic. It can manifest itself in the form of repetition of the same actions, obsessive thoughts, thoughts or sensations. In extreme cases, a person suffering from compulsion can seriously interfere with their normal functioning in life. Obsessions can come in many forms: suicidal thoughts, eating habits, phone calls, or