What is the way to treat cleanliness?

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In our life, we find that many people have different definitions of hygiene from ordinary people. They think clean and hygienic things are dirty, always force themselves, and feel anxious. In medicine, this behavior is called cleanliness mania. According to different types of cognition, cleanliness mania is mainly manifested in physical, mental and behavioral aspects. So what are the treatment methods after suffering from cleanliness mania? Here is a detailed introduction.

What is the way to treat cleanliness?

First: systematic desensitization therapy: ask patients to write down the things and scenes they are afraid of, and the things they often do from mild to severe, and then control their behavior from the easiest things every day, such as gradually reducing the frequency and time of washing hands.

Second: aversion therapy: often using rubber band method. That is to say, let the patient wear a rubber band on his wrist. Once he is about to have compulsive action or behavior, let him play his wrist dozens or even hundreds of times with the rubber band until the obsessive-compulsive concept disappears and there is pain, so as to achieve the purpose of restraining compulsive behavior.

Third: full irrigation therapy: let the patient sit in the room and ask his friends or relatives to be assistants. The patient's whole body relaxed, eyes closed gently, and then asked the assistant to apply various liquids on the patient's hands, such as water, ink, rice soup, oil, dye, etc. During the application, the patient should try to relax, and the assistant should try to use words to describe the hand is dirty. Patients should be patient as much as possible, until they can't bear to open their eyes to see how dirty it is. The assistant should use transparent liquid and opaque liquid at random, and clean water and other liquids at random. In this way, when the patient opens his eyes, his hands are not dirty, at least not as dirty as he imagined. This is a shock to the patient's mind, indicating that "dirty" often comes from his own ideas, which is not consistent with the actual situation. When the patient finds that his hands are really dirty, the impulse to wash hands will be greatly enhanced. At this time, the treatment assistant must prohibit him from washing hands, which is the key to treatment. The patient will feel very painful, but we should try to stick to it, and the assistant should actively give encouragement.

matters needing attention

The treatment of cleanliness is very important, and patients should be cautious in the choice of treatment methods, otherwise it will aggravate the behavior of cleanliness. Patients should know that when they can't control repeatedly washing hands and washing clothes, it belongs to the category of cleanliness addiction. We should pay attention to the disease and strengthen treatment to prevent cleanliness addiction from causing mental diseases.