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Articles about compulsive behavior (0-50 of 329)
- Why Is My Dog Barking And Growling?
By: Tristan Andrews | - Dogs can bark and growl for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes it's hard to figure out why they're barking and growling. It could be because a stranger is approaching or because they hear an unexpected noise. Dave Barry, the columnist, once said that dogs bark because a dog satellite passes over the earth and dogs have to check in with it. It does seem sometimes that dogs bark for no good reason.
Dogs can bark for reasons known only to them but there is usually some reason for it ...
Tags: dog, dogs, canine, puppies, dog training, dog behavior
- Shadows And Light... Is My Dog Crazy?
By: Tristan Andrews | - Have you ever seen a dog stare fixedly at a shadow on the wall? Or go nuts trying to chase the light moving from someone's watch crystal? Maybe your dog chases shadows on the floor or the walls. If she only does this occasionally then you probably find it amusing and have a good laugh about it. But if your dog does this all the time, in an obsessive fashion, you may have begun to wonder if there's something wrong with your dog. The truth is that your dog may have a real problem.
Tags: dog, dogs, canine, puppies, dog training, dog behavior
- Do You Know A Compulsive Eater?
By: Paul Selibio | - You probably know someone who compulsively overeats ? maybe it?s a friend who thinks the portions at the local restaurant are just too small. Or maybe it?s a family member who always heads to the fridge for a snack shortly after the evening meal is finished.
For people who compulsively overeat, the craving to eat, and the knowledge that they will feel ?better? once they are consuming food, is stronger than the knowledge that indulging their cravings is unhealthy and dangerous. Stud ...
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- Information On Eating Disorder
By: alleysmith | - An eating disorder can prove to be fatal if left untreated. It is so important for someone with an eating disorder to receive treatment. There are several ways in which someone can receive eating disorder treatment. Thousands of people who have suffered from an eating disorder have recovered with the help of eating disorder treatment.
An Eating Disorder is a serious problem as it can affect a person both physically and mentally. It is difficult to detect if a person is suffering fro ...
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- Overcome Emotional Eating
By: Dianne Maurer | - Why do we eat? Well common sense tells us that we need to eat to nurture our bodies, we need to eat to satisfy physical hunger. In practice however, our behavior around food is far from this ideal.
Currently it is estimated that globally there are more that 1 billion overweight adults with at least 300 million of them being obese. Studies have shown that an alarming 75% of US adults were overweight or obese (source study carried out by a team at John Hopkins University in Baltimore) ...
Tags: overcoming emotional eating, food addiction, compulsive eating, how to lose weight, diet motivation
- Signs Of Eating Disorders A Parent Should Watch For
By: Emile J | - Its easy to shake your head and say: That could never happen to my family or my kids! You might be unwilling to accept it as a possibility because it would somehow prove that you were inadequate as a parent, or didnt pay enough attention to your kids. Its really easy to ignore warning signs because if you just deny that its a problem, maybe itll go away on its own. Unfortunately, eating disorders are getting more common, and you need to treat them as the serious problem that ...
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- Dealing With Ocd - How To Manage Obsessive Compulsive Behavior
By: Carolyn Anderson | - Obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD can be alienating and can indeed affect the life of the sufferer and the people around him. If you or a family member has obsessive compulsive behavior, learning ways in dealing with OCD is one step that will make the task a little easier.
Moreover, there are also treatment available for this kind of disorder, so it is indeed wise to seek treatment as early as possible. Although it does not necessarily follow that children with obsessive compul ...
Tags: dealing with OCD, treatment for OCD, symptoms of OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder
- Compulsive Hoarding - A Well Kept Family Secret
By: Diane Carbo | - Compulsive hoarding may have been a well kept family secret, but now the family is concerned over the aging parent's safety in the home. This is an elder care crisis that is starting to rear its ugly head. Care giver stress over concerns about health code violations, fire safety or a fall that could lead to a death and being buried by trash.
City and county agencies have developed task forces to deal with the compulsive hoarder. The home of a hoarder looks like any other person's ...
Tags: compulsive hoarding, caregiver stress, elder care, Symptoms of dementia, types of mental illness
- Could Your Child Be Autistic?
By: Cydnie Graff | - Confused about Autism? Well I am not surprised...
There are so many people talking about Autism, and just so little good quality helpful information available to parents, care givers and convened relatives and friends of those with autism, or suspected with Autism.
The renowned autism expert Tony Atwood is fond of putting it this way: Autism is anxiety looking for a target. Autism and anxiety go hand-in-hand. Autism affects a persons ability to communicate with ...
Tags: autistic symptoms. cure autism, autistic kids, early autistic symptoms, autistic behavior, symptoms of autism
- Pathological Liar Treatment: 3 Helpful Ways To Treat The Pathological Liar
By: Michael Lee | - Pathological liars are people who cant help but make up stories all the time. Unlike regular liars, they dont have any real reason to fib. Theyre not being deceptive to avoid being scolded, nor do they lie to keep someone else out of trouble.
Pathological liars just lie. As troublesome as this condition is, there is a way to cure it. Pathological liar treatments are available for those who need it.
Not all experts consider pathological lying t ...
Tags: pathological liar treatment, compulsive lying, pathological
- Discover Autism - A Wide Range Of Therapy Programs
By: Bonita Darula | - Sadly, a definitive cure for autism, a disabling neurological disorder, has yet to be found. Affected children can grow up suffering from speech impairment, difficulties in social interaction, abnormal learning and an inability to enjoy many of life's experiences which we all take for granted. It has been shown that early diagnosis and intervention can help to minimize the problem and therapies can give the unfortunate patient a certain measure of independence and show him or her how to cope.
Tags: autism, dietary therapies, sensory stimulations, music, textures, applied behavior analysis, language programs
- Sos Help For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
By: Ian Spencer | - As an OCD patient, you are aware that what you are doing is not normal or acceptable; however, you find it impossible to stop or check your compulsive behavior. In most cases, people with OCD find it difficult to make friends or even keep their jobs. It has also been observed that left to itself Anxiety disorder seems to worsen over time.
For SOS help to counter OCD try using the 5-R approach, which consists of the following four steps:
1. Recogni ...
Tags: anxiety disorder, compulsive behavior, counter OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Symptoms
By: Ian Spencer | - Anxiety disorder forces you to repeat certain action because unless you do it you feel complete out of control. For example, you would feel that you needed to wash your hands every time you touched anything or you would feel you were exposed to unknown diseases that are likely to attack your system with the help of the germs that crawled all over the place. As you can see, this affliction mixes careful realty and imagination creating a world of its own where your mind becomes prisoner.
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Tags: anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms, OCD, repetitive action
- A Guide To Advanced Clinical Hypnosis
By: Caterina Christakos | - Hypnosis is usually associated with something strange and weird shown on television or read in novels, but it is actually used widely in real life as well, as a part of treatment plan for people suffering from numerous ailments such as depression, phobias, and addictions and so on. Researchers have shown that hypnosis can help people manage illness, and recover effectively. Clinical hypnotherapy uses simple shifting between conscious and subconscious mind therapeutically.
What Is ...
Tags: Clinical hypnotherapy, Advanced Clinical Hypnosis, phobias, anxiety, compulsive behavior, psychosomatic
- What Is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
By: L Guffey | - People with OCD are sane, rational people. Most people with OCD are able to make logical and responsible decisions. They simply have persistent behaviors that upset their daily lives. OCD anxiety disorders can range from mild to severe and has two main components - obsession and the compulsion. The obsession is based off of emotions, specifically fear and want, or desire. All humans are in a constant state of moving toward pleasure and away from pain. OCD is a similar concept but it has evolved ...
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- The Tourette Syndrome Child: Successful Management At Home And At School
By: Bianca Tora | - Tourette syndrome or TS is a genetic, neuro-chemical disorder characterized by involuntary muscle movement called tics. These tics can appear as simple repetitive movements such as blinking or exaggerated actions like gyrations on the floor.
Working with children with TS can be challenging especially when they sometimes present with accompanying conditions such as ADHD and OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Rage or aggressive behavior has been reported as a clinical problem in ...
Tags: tourette syndrome, cognitive behavior therapy, adhd, obsessive compulsive disorder
- Deceived By The Shining Red Apple
By: shelley bayol | - Have you ever experienced making a choice that was similar to picking a beautiful, shining apple, biting into it and finding out it was rotten on the inside? Looks can be deceiving, can't they?
We make many choices in our lives that often lead to a similar scenario, from picking friends, to taking a job, to attending a workshop. It sounded (or looked) great, but later you found out it wasn't as it seemed. Don't judge a book by its cover.
This is so much like c ...
Tags: overspending, shopoholism, compulsive shopping, money, saving, financial recovery, debt
- How To Make Your New Year's Resolutions Succeed
By: Gloria Arenson | - As the New Year begins many of us make resolutions for the coming months. One of the most common is to lose weight. Others want to stop smoking, drinking, spending, etc. Many, many years ago, when I lived in Los Angeles, the only support group for addicts was Alcoholics Anonymous. Around that time Overeaters Anonymous was created and then Narcotics Anonymous. Many of the AA superstar speakers offered to speak at these meetings to offer strength and hope to the members of the fledgling programs. ...
Tags: addiction, compulsion, addicts, Gloria-Arenson, shopaholics, behavior, resolutions
- Ocd: The Monster That Lives In My Head
By: Patrick Omari | - It's because of the monster, I told my friends. You can't stay the night at my flat because of the monster.
No, I wasn't talking about the one who lives in the wardrobe. He's scared of strangers. I'm talking about the monster in my head that makes me wash my hands dozens of times a day because I'm terrified of germs.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD if you can't be bothered to say the whole thing. There, I've said it. I've admitted it, I've named him. The dark ...
Tags: ocd, obsessive compulsive disorder, mental health, cleanliness, obsession, phobia, toni jordan
- Compulsive Skin Picking: A Particularly Problematic Bdd Symptom
By: Richard Rafferty | - Skin picking has been recognized for many years in the dermatology literature, with labels such as "neurotic excoriation". This behavior has been reported in a high percentage of patients with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a distressing or impairing preoccupation with a minimal or nonexistent defect in one's appearance. BDD patients who pick their skin are more likely than BDD patients who do not pick to consult a dermatologist.
Skin picking also occurs in other psychiatric dis ...
Tags: skin picking, compulsive skin picking, dermatillomania
- Treating Dermatillomania, A Skin Picking Disorder
By: Richard Rafferty | - Dermatillomania is an obsessive compulsive disorder where a person has an intense urge and need to pick at their own skin. It is a disorder that consists of body focused repetitive behavior. For people with this disorder, the urge to pick at their own skin is so strong that often damage is done to the skin that doesn't heal correctly or it leaves scars. Picking at their skin is a stress release and a coping mechanism for those with this disorder.
Those who suffer from this disord ...
Tags: skin picking, compulsive skin picking, dermatillomania
- Do You Have A Food Addiction?
By: Carol Solomon | - Our brains are wired to love sweets. Moments after you indulge in sweet treats, your brain's pleasure center releases opiate-like substances.
The same brain chemicals that create narcotic highs also keep you coming back to sugary treats. Beyond the physiological addictive qualities, sweets are highly associated with comfort and pleasure.
For most of us, the problems start in childhood, when we are rewarded with sweets for good behavior, setting up a lifetime associa ...
Tags: food addiction, overeating, weight loss, compulsive eating, overeaters, emotional eating
- Health Success Strategies - Putting Cognitive Behavior Therapy Into Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
By: Ken Donaldson | - If your first thought about the title was, "That sounds boring," you might be right. If you knew that over 2 million Americans were affected and afflicted by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and chances are you know at least one of these people, then you might be more intrigued.
But what the heck is CBT?? Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy...and it's one of the more effective and efficient methods to treat OCD.
Let's start with a little background information.
Tags: Ken Donaldson, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, mental health
- Obsessive Compulsive Behavior - How I Helped My Loved One With Ocd!
By: Derek Soto | - Four years ago, I thought I knew what Obsessive Compulsive Disorder was because of how loosely the term was used. I was conditioned to believe that a person with OCD was anal and loved organization. I've been accused of having OCD because I like things done a certain way. On the contrary, OCD is completely different.
Much to my surprise, I found out what OCD was the hard way...by watching my beloved suffer day in and day out from it. Touching things a certain number of times becam ...
Tags: Obsessive Compulsive Behavior, OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety
- Ocd Facts, Tips, & Secrets
By: Debbie Allen | - OCD, (obsessive-compulsive disorder) is a common disorder. Most of us have personality quirks that we tend to think of as being related to OCD, but in reality. They are nothing more than OCD tendencies, personality quirks are very, very normal.
It is not unusual for anyone to leave the house and return back to check to see if they have left the coffee maker or the iron on. But if you obsess about such things as that and for example tell yourself that you have to return home ever ...
Tags: OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic attacks
- 5 Key Elements Of Successful Eating Disorder Treatment
By: Tricia_Greaves | - If you suffer from an eating disorder or obesity and are searching for a solution, its important to know that not all help is equal. Eating disorder treatment is extremely expensive ($1,000 a day) and so is on-going therapy. And how can you be sure that the treatment you are seeking will work?
Having been helping people with eating disorders, weight loss and addictions for 20 years, and having overcome an eating disorder myself, I have identified 5 key points that I believe are ...
Tags: eating disorder, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, eating disorder recovery, compulsive eating disorder
- End Compulsive Eating: End The Emotional Struggle, Battle Compulsion
By: Bermuda Hills Development Writing Institute | - You will not score in any sport without focus. Opponents would merely grab the ball from you. To be a great athlete, one must undergo rigid training. It is not an easy task, but it is the resolution to be successful in basketball.
You cannot overcome compulsive behavior without a plan, and being focused to reach that goal. You have to get pumped up, determined, and focused. Set realistic goals.
Your opponents should not weaken your desire to overcome compulsion. You must be determin ...
Tags: junk food, compulsive eating, compulsive overeating, obsessive, diet
- Bulimia Nervosa | Bulimia Symptoms | Bulimia Treatment
By: Alexx | - The term bulimia means excessive or abnormal desire for food which is better described as ox-hunger. Bulimia Nervosa disorder has the character of repeating occurrence of binge eating which develops the person with lack of sense for having no control on eating behavior and encourages self-induced vomiting and intake of laxatives and drugs to get rid of this eating habit. This eating disorder is usually of three main types; Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder. It involves ...
Tags: binge eating, binge eating disorder, compulsive exercising, night eating, orthorexia, bulimia nervosa, bulimia symptoms, bulimia treatment.
- Dieting Vs. Non Dieting: 5 Myths Designed To Keep You Chained To Emotional Eating
By: Andrea Amador | - Diets don't work for most people. If you're a gal who's been struggling with trying to watch your weight, you know that it's very difficult to stick to a diet. By exposing these myths, I'd like to help you to make the leap that will move you beyond a life restricted by dieting so that you can finally gain freedom from emotional eating.
Myth #1 - Eat three meals a day plus healthy snacks "Oh boy, it's 12:00. We should be eating now." Have you been eating by the clock? This is enti ...
Tags: diets, weight, freedom, emotional eating, meals, snacks, food, hunger, awareness, body, energy, breakfast, nonfat gluttony, compulsive eating, overwei
- Compulsive Eating Disorder - Causes, Symptoms And Treatment
By: Juliet | - Bulimia also called bulimia nervosa. Bulimia is a very dangerous weight loss strategy. Anorexia nervosa is one type of eating disorder. It is also a psychological disorder. Bulimia is characterized by episodes of secretive excessive eating (bingeing) followed by inappropriate methods of weight control, such as self-induced vomiting (purging), abuse of laxatives and diuretics, or excessive exercise. Anorexia is a condition that goes beyond out-of-control dieting. A person with anorexia initially ...
Tags: compulsive eating disorder treatment, compulsive eating disorder causes and symptoms, diseases treatment, mental health care, depression treatment
- Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder Causes Symptoms Information With Treatment
By: Juliet | - Obsessive compulsive personality disorder, like many other mental illnesses, is linked to genetics and is caused by an imbalance in the person's brain chemistry. This perfectionism may interfere with the person's ability to complete a given task, because their rigid standards cannot be upheld. People with this disorder may emotionally withdraw when they are not able to control a situation. People with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder believe that their preoccupations are appropriate. Th ...
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- How To Change Your Problem Child Into A Little Angel
By: L. Bowlin.. | - You can now have the solutions to your child's behavior problems.
If you have a child who is uncontrollable and impossible to get along with I will tell you how to change that behavior, take control of your home and again enjoy life as a family.
Have you ever been embarrassed by your children's behaviors? Did you ever wish they would just do as they are told? Do you want to cut out all the screaming, hollering and shouting at home? DO YOU EVER WISH FOR JUST FIVE ...
Tags: Inappropriate Child Behavior, misbehavior, child, children, obsessive compulsive, behavior, temper tantrums, bad behavior, defiance, defiant, sass, sassing, back
- Have You Become A Compulsive Spender?
By: Mark Goodworthy | - Shopping has always been one of the nation's favorite past time. Unfortunately for some, it got a bit too expensive. People who can not control their spending are referred to as compulsive spenders. Simply put, compulsive spending is a behavior where you buy things you want even if you can not afford them or have any use for them. You buy for the sake of buying. Regrettably, the temporary happiness you may feel urges you to spend more. At the end, you rack up a large credit card debt and ruin yo ...
Tags: compulsive shopping, spending addiction
- Compulsive Spending And How To Stop
By: Mark Goodworthy | - Shopaholics have earned their reputations from their uncontrollable spending habits. These people usually shop because they feel happy whenever they buy something. Unfortunately, when this feeling of happiness passes, they once again feel the need to shop to recover the wonderful feeling. In this instance, the behavior can turn into the full-time problem of compulsive spending.
Compulsive spenders often find themselves purchasing things that they do not need. Their closets are fil ...
Tags: compulsive spending, compulsive spending habbit
- The Successful Way To Overcome Compulsive Lying
By: Richard MacKenzie | - Compulsive lying is a problem that is sure to cause major problems in someone's life. Lies are a bit of trouble that seems to multiply once they start. Compulsive liars have to continue their ways to keep up with the last lie, which kept up with the last lie. It is a cycle of deception that can alienate family members and friends. It can also cause problems at your workplace if you take compulsive lying to work in the morning. That's the problem with the condition. You can't just turn it on and ...
Tags: compulsive lying, compulsive liar, self hypnosis, hypnotherapy, hypnosis
- Use Hypnosis To Break The Nail Biting Habit - What You Should Know
By: Alan B. Densky, CH | - Nail biting is related to skin picking and hair pulling. Skin picking, hair pulling and nail biting are labeled as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders. Nail biters often keep their hands behind their backs or in their pockets. Nail biters often feel social embarrassment and shame and experience out-of-control feelings at times. At times they may wonder why they cannot stop and they also question whether or not they are sane.
Biting generally happens when people are in one of two mo ...
Tags: hypnosis, hypnotherapy, NLP, hypnotheraist, hypnotist, nail biting, nail-biting, obsessive compulsive behavior, therapy, bite nails, biting nails
- Weight Loss Strategies: Getting Unstuck
By: Carol Solomon | - When it comes to weight loss, many people feel stuck.
One definition of being stuck is this:
"Being stuck is when you can only see one possibility, and you don't like what you see."
One thing coaches help clients do is generate more possibilities . . . and more options.
When you have more possibilities, then you have a CHOICE.
And when you have a choice, then you have FREEDOM.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* PAYING THE ...
Tags: weight loss, obesity, dieting, emotional eating, overweight, diet, binge eating, overeating, overeaters, overeaters anonymous, compulsive eating, lose weight
- What Are The Symptoms Of Ocd?
By: Paul Graham | - There is only a fine line that separates normal fears, diligence and mannerisms from the earliest signs of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD. The strength, frequency and intensity of OCD symptoms gradually increase; its because of this that parents and affected individuals themselves only recognize OCD symptoms as they are when its already too late.
People must also know the difference between OCD and OCPD because it makes advance awareness of OCD symptoms unnecessary; people d ...
Tags: obsessive compulsive disorder, ocd symptom, ocd treatment, ocd test
- Ocd And Relationships: Overcoming Difficulties
By: Isabel Baldry | - For some, OCD and relationships simply wouldn't go together. They say that either OCD destroys the relationship, or the relationships will worsen the OCD. This is a valid concern, and much easier to declare by people untouched by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Have you seen a person who consumes a considerable amount of time in ensuring that she or he has really turned off the light? Or has spent hours in just securing the door lock before bedtime? Or perhaps, your loved on ...
Tags: ocd, obsessive compulsive disorder
- Compulsive Gambler's Journey To Week One Stop Gambling
By: Howard Keith | - We take you through the first week that Arlene made the conscious decision to stop gambling. This was a very emotional period where Arlene's self esteem was at the lowest in her life. She's a single woman who was just about to turn thirty-six years old and her life was crumbling around her.
Arlene decided to share her story of how she made it through her first week as a non gambler. Her goal was to reach out to others who also have a compulsive gambling addiction because she re ...
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