What Are the Different Types of Compulsive Behaviours?
How many people suffer from compulsive personality disorders?
Millions of individuals suffer from one or more compulsive personality disorder. Compulsive personality disorders are usually associated with an obsessive, sometimes even obsessional, focus on one specific activity, thought, situation, or experience. A person with a compulsive personality disorder may have problems with their eating, grooming, shopping, relationship, and work habits.
What is a Compulsive Behaviour? Many people have compulsive behaviour. However, not all of these people have personality disorders. Sometimes compulsive behaviours are spontaneous, without being brought about by a specific emotional, psychological, or physiological problem. Other times, compulsive behaviour can be caused by a person's overactive mind, anxiety, fear, or other conditions.
There are several different forms of compulsive behaviours. Some examples include obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), social anxiety disorder, gambling addiction, compulsive shopping disorder, and compulsive hair pulling disorder. OCD is a condition that is usually considered a mental condition. The person suffering from OCD may have certain rituals to do, but they are not associated with their emotions or personal issues.
Traumatic Stress is a condition that occurs when a person experiences something traumatic. For instance, if a person experiences rape or other physical violence, this person might become overly sensitive to things that were going on in their mind at the time of the incident. This sensitivity may result in a person's over-reacting to the events of the trauma, which they will then perform compulsions over, such as compulsions to check their pulse, breathe, and heart rate. PTSD can be caused by a traumatic event in which a person witnessed violence in the past. Post Traumatic Stress disorder is a condition that can also cause people to perform rituals over specific types of symptoms, such as feeling nauseous or experiencing a fear or nervousness after witnessing a natural disaster.
Another type of compulsive personality disorder is known as pathological eating
A person with pathological eating disorder may consume large amounts of food because they have an eating disorder or they may consume small quantities of food to deal with stress. These compulsions are caused by a person's over-indulgence and/or avoidance of their body's signals that it is full or empty. and, therefore, they can cause a person to overeat to satisfy their bodies' needs.
People with compulsive grooming behaviors do so to improve their social or professional relationships in their life. These grooming behaviors can be in the form of excessively grooming their hair, fingernails, or scalp, repeatedly checking to see if their fingernails are clean, pulling their hair out, scrubbing the floors, cleaning their face with harsh chemicals, etc. It is common for people to spend a large amount of time grooming their hair after a shower. People with this condition often use excessive amounts of body sprays, body lotions and hair products in order to improve their appearance, especially if they have a severe condition, such as acne or a disease.
People with compulsive shopping are unable to resist impulse and purchase items that they do not need and they purchase things without reason or consideration to their current financial situation. These people usually shop when their car breaks down or their car is broken down and they are left stranded. People with compulsive shopping disorder tend to buy large amounts of unnecessary items and frequently buy things they may not necessarily need. because they find it is easier to buy things that will not end up costing them a lot of money.
These are just some of the types of compulsive behaviour that individuals who suffer from these disorders are capable of engaging in. While there are many more types of compulsive behaviours, it is important to remember that not every individual that has one of these conditions actually has them. So, if you suspect that you, or someone that you know, might have this condition, make sure to seek medical attention before it gets out of hand.