Compulsive thinking

Introduction Also known as thinking gathering or thinking insertion. It means that there are a lot of thoughts in the minds of the patients that are not their own. These thoughts are not subject to the will of the patients, and they are forced to emerge in the brain, as if other people's thoughts are running in their own brains under the influence of magical external forces. The content is more chaotic and unpredictable. Sometimes it is even disgusting to patients. These alienated thoughts sometimes appear in the process of patient's autonomous thinking or when the brain is resting. This is called thinking insertion. Sometimes a lot of thoughts or ideas are squeezed into the mind one by one or several concepts at the same time, called thinking gathering. The disease suddenly appears, lasts for a short time, and sometimes fleeting.

Cause

a) epilepsy

It is a psychomotor seizure, or a precursor to seizures, or it can occur alone. When symptoms appear, there is a horrible experience of not being able to think independently.

(2) Schizophrenia

Mandatory thinking, brainstorming, thinking insertion, etc. can occur. Many patients are indifferent to the experience, indifferent, rarely mentioned, but can give imaginative meaning to their experience, secondary physical influence delusions, sorrowful delusions, etc., although the response to the experience itself is not strong, but after the delusion can occur Injury and other aggressive behavior. Some patients succumb to mandatory instructional instructions to act and have a sense of dominance.

(3) organic mental disorders

Infectious diseases such as infection and poisoning can appear to be forced thinking, and are often produced under the state of consciousness. As the disease recovers and the disturbance of consciousness is relieved, the symptoms can quickly disappear.

(4) neurasthenia

Patients with this disease are prone to excitement and produce more delusions. Although subjectively think that they cannot be controlled, their thinking is their own. There is no difference in experience. This phenomenon can disappear when busy with affairs. This phenomenon is only a compulsory thinking.

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Blood routine brain CT examination

The clinical manifestations are recurrent thoughts, representations, and attempts. These phenomena are of course in the heart of the patient, but the patients do not think that they are voluntary, and try to control and get rid of them, but they are always unsuccessful, so they feel anxious and painful. The disease is more common than that in the youth, there is no gender difference, and the incidence of high intelligence is also high. The onset is slow, the course of disease is long, the symptoms are aggravated when the life is calm or idle, and the stress of life or work tasks attracts attention and the symptoms are alleviated.

Differential diagnosis

Clinical often and thought are spread and identified. The idea is spread, and the mind is exposed or perceived. It is said that the patient is aware that his thoughts have not been expressed or are not expressed. Many people know that although they can't tell how their thoughts are detected by others, they are convinced that they are well known.

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