OCD With Poor Insight

Video Transcript

"Another feature of OCD, or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, can be seen in what we call OCD with poor insight. What OCD with poor insight is is usually a person who has OCD will recognize that they're compulsions and their obsessions are either unreasonable or do not make very much sense.They'll recognize that their compulsions are taking a lot of time out of their day and the obsessions are starting to interfere with their daily life, but when a person doesn't realize that these symptoms are actually interfering with their daily life and causing them to be having such difficulty, that's when we say that they have OCD with poor insight. Usually it means that they're not recognizing that they have OCD or that these, you know, spending hours and hours doing a compulsive act is actually interfering with their daily life. These symptoms can be, you know, sometimes it's because the symptoms are so small that they sound like background noise and it doesn't really seem like it's effecting them, but usually they're symptoms that are really, really eating into their day. So hours and hours of hand washing, but they see it as something that's just, that they like to be really clean or, you know, checking the locks a few times they'll say well I just want to be safe. Again, you really need to watch what the symptoms are and how you're handling them. Everybody wants to be safe and everybody likes to be clean, but when it steps beyond the normal point and it becomes an obsession or a compulsion and it starts interfering with your daily life, that's when you need to seek medical or professional attention."