People living with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) typically experience obsessions, or repetitive unwanted thoughts that prompt an extreme urge to repeat a specific behavior. They then act out that urge, or compulsion, to help relieve the obsessive thought.
Plenty of people double-check to make sure they’ve locked the front door or turned off the stove. It’s also very common to have a superstition or two, like knocking on wood or wearing your team’s jersey when they play. These habits might help you feel more secure, but they don’t automatically suggest obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
For people living with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), these rituals aren’t a matter of personal choice. Rather, they complicate and disrupt everyday life. Many people with OCD recognize the thoughts and beliefs fueling their compulsions as illogical, or at least highly unlikely. Still, they act on them to relieve the distress caused by intrusive obsessive thoughts and prevent persistent fears from becoming reality.
Language matters
You might hear someone say, “I’m so obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD),” because they like the items on their desk to stay arranged in a certain way or prefer to wash and put away the dishes immediately after every meal.
But OCD is much more than a personal preference for cleanliness or order. The symptoms of OCD take up a significant part of someone’s day and disrupt their regular activities. They also cause distress — people with OCD often know that obsessions and compulsions aren’t grounded in reality, but they still feel compelled to act on them.
Using “OCD” casually to describe habits or behaviors you choose to do can minimize the seriousness of OCD, not to mention the distress experienced by people living with the condition.
Symptoms
OCD involves two main types of symptoms: obsessions and compulsions. Many people living with OCD experience both obsessions and compulsions, but some people only experience one or the other.
These symptoms aren’t just fleeting or short-lived. Even milder symptoms can take up at least an hour each day and significantly affect your day-to-day activities. 
Obsessions or compulsions might affect your ability to pay attention at school or complete tasks at work. They could even keep you from going to school or work, or anywhere else.
You might realize the obsessive thoughts aren’t true or know the compulsive behaviors won’t actually do anything to prevent them. Yet they often feel uncontrollable, all the same.
Obsessions
The content of obsessive thoughts can vary widely, but a few common themes include:
- worries about germs, dirt, or illness,
- fears of harming yourself or someone else,
- fears of saying something offensive or obscene,
- a need to have your possessions aligned, orderly, or symmetrical,
- explicit sexual or violent thoughts,
- worries about throwing things away,
- questioning your sexual desires or orientation,
- worries about the health and safety of yourself or your loved ones,
- intrusive images, words, or sounds.
These unwanted and intrusive thoughts keep coming back, no matter how hard you try to ignore or suppress them. Their very persistence can lead to an even stronger conviction that they might be true, or might come true, if you don’t take steps to prevent them.
Compulsions
Examples of compulsive behaviors in OCD include:
- washing your hands, objects, or body,
- organizing or aligning objects in a specific way,
- counting or repeating specific phrases,
- touching something a set number of times,
- seeking reassurance from others,
- collecting certain objects or buying several of the same item,
- hiding objects you could use to hurt yourself or someone else,
- mentally going over your actions to make sure you haven’t harmed anyone else.
You can think of compulsions as a response to obsessions. Once an obsession surfaces, you might feel compelled to take action in order to relieve the anxiety and distress it causes or to keep that obsessive thought from coming true.
You might feel the need to repeat these actions a specific number of times, or until things seem “just right.” If you make a mistake during the ritual, you might feel that it won’t work unless you start from the beginning and finish it perfectly.
Types of OCD
There’s no formal classification of different types of OCD, but experts commonly separate symptoms into several subtypes: 
- contamination and cleaning,
- fear of harm and checking,
- symmetry, perfectionism, and ordering,
- intrusive sexual, violent, or other taboo thoughts,
- collecting or hoarding.
Your symptoms could mainly align with one of these subtypes or fall into multiple categories. The fact that symptoms often don’t fit neatly into one category may help explain why these subtypes remain unofficial.
These aren’t the only suggested subtypes of OCD, either. Other unofficial “types” of OCD include:
- Scrupulosity, or religious OCD, involves obsessions and compulsions centered around religious beliefs. If you have a thought, you consider blasphemous, you might feel compelled to pray a certain number of times, count to a certain number, or touch several objects in order to cancel it out.
- Relationship OCD involves frequent doubts, questions, and intrusive thoughts about your relationship.
- Pure O (obsession) involves sexual, religious, or violent intrusive thoughts and obsessions but no apparent compulsions. Pure O might still involve compulsions — they just might take place as mental rituals rather than physical actions.
OCD in children
Again, around half of people with OCD first noticed symptoms during childhood. Children may not always show symptoms of OCD in the same ways as adults. For example:
- They may not realize their obsessions or compulsions are excessive.
- They might believe everyone has similar thoughts and urges.
- Obsessions may seem less obvious. Certain thought patterns, such as magical thinking or fears of bad things happening to loved ones, may also seem like a typical part of child development.
- According to study (2014) tics tend to develop more often with childhood-onset OCD.
- They more commonly have symptoms from multiple categories.
Treatment for children generally involves therapy, medication, or both, as it does for adults.
OCPD vs OCD
Despite the similarity in their names, obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) are completely different conditions.
OCPD is characterized by an extreme need for orderliness, perfection, and control, including within relationships. It doesn’t involve obsessions or compulsions. 
Key symptoms of OCPD include:
- preoccupation with details, order, rules, and schedules,
- perfectionism that gets in the way of completing tasks or assignments,
- spending so much time on work that no time remains for personal interests or relationships,
- an inflexible or overly conscientious attitude toward ethical or moral concerns,
- extreme difficulty discarding objects,
- trouble delegating responsibility or working with others,
- a tendency to avoid spending money whenever possible,
- a rigid or stubborn attitude.
Personality disorders like OCPD involve fixed, persistent traits that can disrupt relationships and everyday life. People living with personality disorders often don’t recognize these traits as problematic, but simply accept them as part of their personality.
Still, compared to people living with other personality disorders, those with OCPD are more likely to seek treatment. Compared to other personality disorders, OCPD can often be treated more effectively.
People with OCD, on the other hand, may be more likely to seek help because their symptoms do cause distress.
It’s possible, of course, to have both conditions, but a mental health professional will diagnose them separately. OCPD may also involve different approaches to treatment, including psychodynamic therapy.
What causes OCD?
Experts don’t know exactly what causes OCD. Irregular development and impairment in certain areas of the brain have also been linked to the condition. Some evidence suggests OCD may relate, in part, to how your brain responds to serotonin. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that helps regulate mood and sleep and has many other important functions throughout your body.
Risk factors for OCD
If you’re genetically more likely to develop OCD, other factors can also increase your chances of developing the condition, these include:
- Stress or trauma. Significant stress at home, school, work, or in personal relationships can raise your chances of developing OCD or worsen existing symptoms.
- Personality. Certain personality traits, including difficulty handling uncertainty, heightened feelings of responsibility, or perfectionism, may factor into OCD. However, there’s some debate over whether these are actually fixed traits or more flexible learned responses that can change.
- Abuse in childhood. Children who experience abuse or other traumatic childhood experiences, like bullying or severe neglect, have a higher chance of developing the condition.
- Childhood acute neuropsychiatric symptoms (CANS). For some children, OCD begins suddenly after an infection. After a streptococcal infection, this syndrome is known as pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders (PANDAS) associated with streptococcus. But other infections or diseases can also cause symptoms.
- Traumatic brain injury. According to a study, symptoms of OCD may appear for the first time following a head injury.
Keep in mind, though, that it’s possible to have a family history of OCD, along with other risk factors, and still never develop the condition yourself. What’s more, people without any known risk factors can still have OCD. 
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) often occurs with other mental health conditions, for example:
In fact, about 90 percent of people living with OCD have another mental health condition, with anxiety conditions being the most common. That said, having one of these conditions doesn’t automatically mean you’re more likely to have OCD.
Diagnosis
Symptoms of OCD appear first in childhood for about half of the people living with the condition. Because symptoms often begin gradually, they may not be very noticeable right away. As a matter of fact, many people live with the condition for years before seeking help.
Talking about OCD symptoms can feel difficult, especially if you’ve already tried and been brushed off. Maybe you shared an obsessive thought with a parent. They laughed, hugged you, and said, “Don’t worry, that’s not going to happen.” But their loving dismissal did nothing to ease the thought.
Or perhaps you tried explaining to a co-worker who frequently borrowed office supplies that you have to keep the items on your desk aligned in a certain way. When they picked up a stapler to borrow it and set it back in the wrong place, you felt intensely uncomfortable until you put it where it belonged. Later, you heard them in the hallway, talking to someone else about how “strange” you were.
A mental health professional won’t laugh or judge you — they’ll listen to your symptoms with compassion and help you begin to address them.
Questioning patient
They’ll start by asking questions about obsessions or compulsions you experience, for example:
- how much time they take up each day,
- what you do to try and ignore or suppress them,
- whether the OCD-related beliefs feel true to you,
- what effects obsessions and compulsions have on your relationships and daily life.
They’ll also ask about medications (especially allopathic) you’re taking and any other mental health or medical symptoms you experience to help rule out medication side effects or other conditions. 
Other mental health conditions can involve symptoms that resemble OCD:
- Body dysmorphic disorder can involve fixated thoughts or repetitive behaviors that relate to your physical appearance.
- Trichotillomania involves persistent urges to pull your own hair out.
- Depression can involve looping unwanted thoughts, but these thoughts generally don’t lead to compulsive behaviors.
- Hoarding disorder involves collecting an excess of unneeded objects and having difficulty throwing things away, but these possessions don’t trigger distress. People with OCD might only collect or save items due to a compulsion to complete a set, or because they believe not saving those items might lead to harm.
- Generalized anxiety disorder also involves frequent and persistent worries. These concerns often relate to everyday life, though. While they might lead you to avoid certain people or situations, they generally don’t lead to compulsive actions.
- Tics, or sudden, repeated movements, can happen with OCD. It’s not uncommon for people with OCD to also have a tic disorder, such as Tourette syndrome. But you can also have a tic disorder without having OCD.
A mental health professional will use all the information they gather to determine whether OCD is the most accurate diagnosis and explore other diagnoses, if needed.
Allopathic treatment
Connecting with a therapist who has experience treating OCD is a good first step toward exploring helpful treatment options. Usually, treatment for OCD will include both psychotherapy and medication.
Allopathic medication
A few different psychotropic medications can help reduce OCD symptoms. A psychiatrist or other prescribing clinician might prescribe:
- selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as fluoxetine or sertraline,
- the tricyclic antidepressant clomipramine (Anafranil), though this medication generally won’t be prescribed as a first-line treatment,
- antipsychotics like aripiprazole (Abilify) or risperidone (Risperdal), which can enhance the effects of SSRIs,
- memantine (Namenda), an NMDA receptor antagonist, which can also enhance the effects of SSRIs.
With allopathic treatment it can sometimes take 8 to 12 weeks before SSRIs take effect, so keep taking your medication as directed even if you don’t notice improvement immediately.
Some severe side effects are possible, so you’ll always want to let your care team know about any unwanted symptoms you experience while taking medication. If these side effects outweigh the medication’s benefits, your psychiatrist may recommend another treatment approach. 
Therapy
Mental health professionals typically recommend therapy as part of a combined approach to treatment.
Medication can often help relieve symptoms, but by working with a therapist, you can also learn:
- tools to manage unwanted thoughts and change unhelpful patterns of behavior
- strategies to improve relaxation and cope with emotional distress
Therapy approaches recommended for OCD include:
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). CBT can help you learn to identify and reframe patterns of unwanted or negative thoughts and behaviors.
- Exposure and response prevention (ERP). This is a type of CBT that involves gradual exposure to feared situations, or the concerns at the root of obsessions or compulsions. The goal of ERP is to learn to manage the distress obsessions cause without engaging in compulsive behaviors.
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. This involves learning mindfulness skills to cope with distress triggered by obsessive thoughts.
Other allopathic approaches
Some limited evidence also supports brain stimulation for OCD symptoms.
- Deep brain stimulation. This involves delivering electrical pulses, directly into areas of the brain associated with OCD, through a thin electrode. This procedure requires surgery, so your care team will likely only recommend it for very severe symptoms that don’t improve with other treatments.
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). TMS involves magnetic pulses, delivered to your brain via magnetic coil. Experts believe the magnetic pulses help ease OCD symptoms by stimulating associated areas of the brain. This noninvasive procedure doesn’t require surgery and is often used along with medication and therapy.
Homeopathic treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder
Given the seriousness and chronic nature of OCD, self-care without also getting treatment by an allopathic professional or home remedies are not deemed appropriate treatment for this illness.
Homeopathy treats not only the disease/disorder itself but the root cause; that’s why with Homeopathic treatment OCD’s patients can be treated and could live absolutely normal life without any addiction to the drugs and/or lifetime medication.
Here are few medicines good for schizophrenia according to my knowledge (Dr Qaisar Ahmed MD, DHMS):
Anacardium Orientale
Neurasthenics patients: who have nervous dyspepsia, relieved by food; impaired memory, depression, and irritability; diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing). Fears. Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc. Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse. Sensation of a plug in various parts-eyes, rectum, bladder etc; also, of a band. Empty feeling in stomach; eating temporarily relieves all discomfort. Alzheimer’s disease. Dementia. Delirium. Intermittency of symptoms. 
Fixed ideas. Hallucinations: thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills. Anxiety when walking, as if pursued. Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with tendency to use violent language. Brain-fag. Impaired memory. Absent mindedness. Very easily offended. Malicious; seems bent on wickedness. Lack of confidence in himself or others. Suspicious. Clairaudient hears voices far away or of the dead. Senile dementia. Absence of all moral restraint. Vertigo. Pressing pain, as from a plug; worse after mental exertion-in forehead; occiput, temples, vertex; better during a meal. Itching and little boils on scalp.
Rhododendron
Dread of a storm; particularly afraid of thunder. Forgetful. Hallucination. Dementia. Delirium; staggers; falls asleep on his knees. Frightful visions. Sambre, morose humor. Excessive indifference. Sudden loss of ideas. Leaves out whole words when writing. While talking forgets what he is talking about. Reeling sensation in head; brain feels as if surrounded with a fog.
Helleborus Niger
Melancholy taciturnity. Excessive, and almost mortal anguish. Homesickness. Hypochondriacal humor. Tedium vitae; envious seeing others happy. Dementia. Delirium. Suicidal. Indolence. Sobbing lamentation. Hallucination. Obstinate silence. Irritable – feel better from consolation. Suspicious. Dullness of the internal senses. Stupidity and want of reflection, with (thoughtless) fixedness of look on one single point, much moaning, and inability to think. Weakness of the memory. The mind seems to lose command over the body; the muscles refuse their office as soon as the attention is diverted (if the will is not strongly fixed upon their action; if he talks he lets fall what he holds in his hand). Giddiness on stooping. Stupefying headache. Face pale – dropsical swelling of the face and body.
Absinthian
Forgets what has recently happened. Hallucination. Insane; idiotic; brutal. Idiotic manner doesn’t care whether she dies or not. Wants nothing to do with anybody. Delirium. Dementia. Frightful visions and terrifying hallucinations. Stupor alternating with dangerous violence. Insensible with the convulsions. Vertigo – when he/she rises up; tendency to fall backward. Confusion in head. Headache. Wants to lie with the head low. Congestion of the brain and spinal cord. 
Causticum
Hallucination. Does not want to go to bed alone. Least thing makes cry. Sad, hopeless. Intensely sympathetic. Ailments from long-lasting grief, sudden emotions. Dementia. Thinking of complaints, aggravates, especially hemorrhoids. Delirium. Sensation of empty space between forehead and brain. Pain in right frontal eminence.
Hyoscymaus Niger
Hallucination. Disturbed nervous system. It is as if some diabolical force took possession of the brain and prevented its functions. Mania of a quarrelsome and obscene character. Inclined to be unseemly and immodest in acts, gestures and expressions. Very talkative, and persists in stripping herself, or uncovering genitals. Is jealous, afraid of being poisoned, etc. Its symptoms also point to weakness and nervous agitation – Alzheimer’s disease. Tremulous weakness and twitching of tendons. Subsultus tendinum. Muscular twitching, spasmodic affections, generally with delirium. Non-inflammatory cerebral activity. Toxic gastritis. Very suspicious. Obscene, lascivious mania uncovers body; jealous, foolish. Great hilarity; inclined to laugh at everything. Delirium, with attempt to run away. Dementia. Low, muttering speech; constant carphologia, deep stupor.
Head feels light and confused. Vertigo as if intoxicated. Brain feels loose, fluctuating. Inflammation of brain, with unconsciousness; head is shaken to and fro. Alzheimer’s disease.
Conium Maculatum
Stabbing pains. Weak spells; faintness; sudden loss of strength while walking. Paroxysms of hysteria and hypochondriasis from abstinence from sexual intercourse. Hallucination. Photophobia; ptosis. When turning in bed (vertigo) moving the head ever so little; turning head sideways. In the dark, from letting the affected limb hang down; from moving; when walking; by stooping. Aversion to open air. Desire for warmth. Apoplexy with paralysis (in old people). Falling off of the hair.
Alumina
Low spirited; fears loss of reason. Confused as to personal identity. Hallucination. Hasty, hurried. Time passes slowly. Variable mood. Better as day advances. Suicidal tendency when seeing knife or blood. Alzheimer’s disease. Dementia. Stitching burning pain in head, with vertigo relieved by food. Pressure in forehead. Inability to walk closed eyes. Throbbing headache, with constipation. Vertigo, with nausea; better after breakfast. Falling out of hair; scalp itches and is numb.
Rauwolfia Serpentina
Melancholia include are Abasement. Abuser. Abjection. Abjectness. Bleakness. Bummer. Cheerlessness. Delirium. Dejection. Desolation. Desperation. Dementia. Despondency. Disconsolation. Hallucination. Discouragement. Dispiritedness. Distress. Dole. Dolor. Dreariness. Dullness. Dumps. Ennui. Gloom. Gloominess. Hopelessness. Lowness. Melancholy. Misery. Mortification. Qualm. Sadness. Sorrow. Trouble. Unhappiness. Vapors. Woefulness. Worry. Downheartedness. Dolefulness. Blue Funk. Blahs. Heaviness of Heart and Lugubrious. Paranoia. Paranoia. Alzheimer’s disease.
Vicum Album
Incoherent talk and spectral illusions; inclined to be violent. Insensibility. Stupor, succeeded by almost entire insensibility, lying motionless, with eyes closed, as if in a sound sleep, but easily roused by a loud noise, and then would answer any question, but when he/she relapsed into his/her former condition there was a slight disposition to stertorous breathing. Dementia. Hallucination. Feels as if going to do something dreadful while the trembling is on. Delirium. Keeps waking in night thinking the most horrible things imaginable. If awake seemed to be dreaming, if asleep she was dreaming. Felt in bad temper. Great depression.
Giddiness. Intense throbbing headache. Sharp pain in head and face. Numb feeling in head. Tightening sensation of the brain once or twice. Sharp shooting in occipital bone.
Lac Caninum
Very forgetful; in writing, makes mistakes. Hallucination. Despondent; thinks her disease incurable. Attacks of rage. Visions of snakes. Dementia. Thinks himself of little consequence. Alzheimer’s disease. Sensation of walking or floating in the air. Pain first one side, then the other. Blurred vision, nausea and vomiting at height of attack of headache. Delirium. Occipital pain, with shooting extending to forehead. Sensation as if brain were alternately contracted and relaxed. Noises in ears. Reverberation of voice.
Medorrhinum
Severe disturbance and irritability of nervous system. Dwarfed and stunted. State of collapse and trembling all over. History of sycosis. Dementia. Alzheimer’s disease. Delirium. Intensity of all sensations. Weak memory. Loses the thread of conversation. Cannot speak without weeping. Time passes too slowly. Hallucination. Is in a great hurry. Hopeless of recovery. Difficult concentration. Fears going insane. Sensibility exalted. Nervous, restless. Fear in the dark and of some one behind her. Melancholy, with suicidal thoughts. Burning pain in brain; worse, occiput. Head heavy and drawn backward. Headache from jarring of cars, exhaustion, or hard work. Weight and pressure in vertex. 
Macinela
Silent mood, sadness. Wandering thoughts. Sudden vanishing of thought. Bashful. Dementia. Hallucination. Fear of becoming insane. Delirium. Vertigo: head feels lights, empty. Scalp itches. Hair falls out after acute sickness. Fear: of getting crazy; of evil spirits. Alzheimer’s disease. Averse to work and answering questions. Sadness. Anxiety; before menses. Homesick. Bashful and taciturn; timid look.
Datura Metel
soporose condition, and later delirium and spasms. The soporose state may be absent. Delirium may be vociferous, or merely garrulous. Patient usually manifests excessive timidity. Picks at real or imaginary objects. Performs ridiculous antics. Several movements appear due to perverted vision, and inability to judge distances. After the delirium, patient remembers nothing of what has occurred. Extreme dilatation of pupils. Flickering before eyes with photophobia. Pulse and temperature undergo extremes of exaltation and depression. Alzheimer’s disease. Convulsions. Delirium. Epilepsy. Eye affections. Mania. Timidity. Dementia.
Aethusa Cynapium
Incapacity to think; confused. Loss of comprehension. Idiocy, in some cases alternating with furor. Hallucination. Great anxiety and restlessness, followed by violent pains in head and abdomen. Dementia. Bad humor; irritability. Irritability, especially in the afternoon, and in the open air. Delirium: sees cats and dogs; tries to jump out of the window. Loquacious gaiety.
Confused; brain feels bound up. Vertigo, with sleepiness, can’t raise the head. Headache in whole front part of head. Sensation, as if both sides of the head were in a vice. Distressing pains in the occiput, down nape of neck, and spine. Heat rises to the head; the body becomes warmer; the face becomes red, and the giddiness ceases. Stitches and pulsations in the head. Can’t hold head up or sit up. Sensation as if constantly pulled by the hair.
Argentum Metallicum
Restlessness – which forces him to walk quickly. Ill-humor and aversion to talking. When pleased, excessively merry, but cries a long time about a trifle. Hallucination. Dementia. Delirium (mania; after epilepsy). Dullness, and sensation of emptiness in the head. Dizziness, with obscurity of vision, or with drowsiness, and falling of the eyelids. Migraine. Compression in the brain, with nausea and burning in the epigastrium, on reading and stooping for any time.
Argentum Nitricum
The neurotic effects of Argentum Nitricum are very marked, many brain and spinal symptoms presenting, head symptoms often determine the choice of this remedy. Symptoms of incoordination, loss of control and want of balance everywhere, mentally and physically, trembling in affected parts. Dementia. Hallucination. Alzheimer’s disease. Gastroenteritis. Great desire for sweets, the splinter-like pains, and free muco-purulent discharge in the inflamed and ulcerated mucous membranes. Sensation as if a part were expanding and other errors of perception are characteristic.
Withered up and dried constitutions present a favorable field for its action, especially when associated with unusual or long continued mental exertion. Pains increase and decrease gradually. Flatulent state and prematurely aged look. Explosive belching especially in neurotics. Upper abdominal infections brought on by undue mental exertion. Paraplegia Myelitis and disseminated sclerosis of brain and cord. Intolerance of heat. Sensation of a sudden pinch. Destroyed red blood corpuscles – anemia.
Thinks his understanding will and must fail. Fearful and nervous; impulse to jump out of window. Faintish and tremulous. Melancholic; apprehensive of serious disease. Time passes slowly. Memory weak. Errors of perception. Impulsive; wants to do things in a hurry. Peculiar mental impulses. Fears and anxieties and hidden irrational motives for actions. Delirium.
Headache with coldness and trembling. Emotional disturbances cause appearance of hemi cranial attacks. Sense of expansion. Brain-fag, with general debility and trembling. Headache from mental exertion, from dancing. Vertigo, with buzzing in ears and with nervous affections. Aching in frontal eminence, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye. Boring pain; better on tight bandaging and pressure. Itching of scalp. Hemicrania; bones of head feel as if separated. 
Arsenicum Album
Hallucination. Melancholy, sometimes of a religious character, sadness, care, chagrin, cries and complaints. Anguish. Restlessness. Great fear of being left alone. Anger, with anxiety, restlessness and sensation of coldness. Anxiety of conscience, as if a crime had been committed. Inconsolable anguish, with complaints and lamentation. Hypochondriacal humor. Fear of solitude, of specters, and of robbers, with desire to hide oneself. Indecision and changeable humor, which demands this at one time, that at another, and rejects everything after having obtained it. Despair: he finds no rest with anguish. Despondency, despair, weariness of life, inclination to suicide, or excessive fear of death, which is sometimes believed to be very near. Dementia.
Too great sensibility and scrupulousness of conscience, with gloomy ideas, as if one had offended all the world. Ill-humor, impatience, vexation, inclination to be angry, repugnance to conversation, inclination to criticize, and great susceptibility. Caustic and jesting spirit. Extreme sensibility of all the organs; all noise, conversation, and clear lights are insupportable. Great apathy and indifference. Great weakness of memory. Delirium. Stupidity and dullness. Delirium, with great flow of ideas. Loss of consciousness, and of sensation; dotage; maniacal actions and frenzy. Madness; loss of mind (from the abuse of alcoholic drinks).
Heaviness, sensation of weakness, and confusion in the head. Vertigo on shutting the eyes, on walking, or in the open air, and sometimes with tottering, with danger of falling, intoxication, loss of sense, obscuration of the eyes, nausea, and headache. Tearing in the head, with vomiting, when raising up the head. Cracking or buzzing in the head. Excessive swelling of the head and face. Erysipelatous burning, swelling of the head (face and genitals) with great weakness and coldness.
Cannabis Indica
A condition of intense exaltation, in which all perceptions and conceptions, all sensations and all emotions are exaggerated to the utmost degree.
Subconscious or dual nature state; Dual personality disorder. Dementia. Apparently under the control of the second self, but, the original self, prevents the performance of acts which are under the domination of the second self. Apparently the two natures cannot act independently, one acting as a check, upon the other. Delirium.
Most remarkable hallucinations and imaginations, exaggeration of the duration of time and extent of space. Conception of time, space and place is gone. Extremely happy and contented, nothing troubles. Ideas crowd upon each other. Epilepsy, mania, dementia, delirium tremens, and irritable reflexes. Exophthalmic goiter. Catalepsy. Alzheimer’s disease.
Excessive loquacity; exuberance of spirits. Constantly theorizing. Anxious depression; constant fear of becoming insane. Mania must constantly move. Very forgetful; cannot finish sentence. Is lost in delicious thought. Uncontrollable laughter. Delirium tremens. Clairvoyance. Emotional excitement; rapid change of mood. Cannot realize her identity, chronic vertigo as of floating off. Feels as if top of head were opening and shutting and as if calvarium were being lifted. Shocks through brain. Uremic headache with flatulence. Involuntary shaking of head. Migraine attack preceded by unusual excitement with loquacity.
Ignatia Amara
Hyperesthesia of all senses. Hallucination. Mentally, the emotional element is uppermost, and co-ordination of function is interfered with. It is one of the chief remedies for hysteria. Dementia. Nervous temperament-women of sensitive, easily excited nature, dark, mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in execution. Rapid change of mental and physical condition, opposite to each other. Alzheimer’s disease. Delirium. Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling patients who suffer acutely in mind or body, at the same time. Effects of grief and worry. Cannot bear tobacco. Pain is small, circumscribed spots. The plague. Hiccough and hysterical vomiting.
Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding. Melancholic, sad, tearful. Not communicative. Sighing and sobbing. Aftershocks, grief, disappointment. Head feels hollow, heavy; worse, stooping. Headache as if a nail were driven out through the side. Cramp-like pain over root of nose. Congestive headaches following anger or grief; worse, smoking or smelling tobacco, inclines head forward.
Coca
Melancholy. Hypochondriasis. Mental depression with drowsiness. Bashfulness. Prefers solitude and darkness. Alzheimer’s disease. Muddled feeling in brain. Loss of energy. Dementia. Hallucination. Great mental excitement. Delirium. Vertigo and fainting. Tension over forehead. Headache just over eyebrows. Shocks in head; dull, full feeling in occiput with vertigo, the only possible position is on the face. 
Kali Phosphoricum
One of the greatest nerve medicines. Prostration. Weak and tired. Marked disturbance of the sympathetic nervous system. Conditions arising from want of nerve power, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression. Hallucination. Alzheimer’s disease. The causes are usually excitement, overwork and worry. A dynamic and decay, gangrenous conditions. Suspected malignant tumors. After removal of cancer when in healing process skin is drawn tight over the wound. Delayed labor.
Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy. Indisposition to meet people. Extreme lassitude and depression. Very nervous, starts easily, irritable. Dementia. Brain-fag; hysteria; night terrors. Somnambulance. Delirium. Loss of memory. Slightest labor seems a heavy task. Great despondency about business. Shyness; disinclined to converse.
Occipital headache. Vertigo, from lying on standing up, from sitting, and when looking upward. Cerebral anemia. Headache of students, and those worn out by fatigue. Headaches are relieved by gentle motion. Headache, with weary, empty, gone feeling at stomach.
Aurum Metallicum
Feeling of self-condemnation and utter worthlessness. Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure, with thorough disgust of life, and thoughts of suicide. Talks of committing suicide. Fear of death. Hallucination. Peevish and vehement at least contradiction. Delirium. Alzheimer’s disease. Dementia. Anthropophobia. Mental derangements. Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply. Cannot do things fast enough. Over sensitiveness; to noise, excitement, confusion.
Violent pain in head; worse at night, outward pressure. Roaring in head. Vertigo. Tearing through brain to forehead. Pain in bones extending to face. Congestion to head. Boils on scalp.
Nux Moschata
Tendency to fainting fits, with heart failure. Cold extremities, extreme dryness of mucous membranes and skin. Strange feeling, with irresistible drowsiness. Indicanuria. General inclination to become unconscious during acute attacks. Alzheimer’s disease. Lypothymia. Staggers on trying to walk. Hallucination.
Delirium. Mind changeable; laughing and crying. Confused, impaired memory. Dementia. Bewildered sense, as in a dream. Thinks she has two heads. Vertigo when walking in open air; aches from eating a little too much. Feeling of expansion, with sleepiness. Pulsating in head. Cracking sensation in head. Sensitive to slightest touch in a draught of air. Bursting headache; better hard pressure.
Carboneum Sulphuratum
Hallucinations. Headache and dizziness. Noises in head. Senselessness of lips/tongue etc. Optic neuritis. Vision greatly impaired. Color-blindness. Hearing impaired. Tinnitus atrium. Meniere’s disease. Numbness of arms and hands.
Lithium Carbonicum
Tension, as if bound; better, sitting and going out. Externally sensitive. Headache ceases while eating. Trembling and throbbing. Pain in heart; extends to head. Dizzy states with ringing in ears. Both cheeks covered with dry, bran-like scales. Half vision; invisible right half. Photophobia. Difficulty in remembering names. Bipolar disorder. Disposed to weep about his lonesome condition. Anxiety, hopeless all night. Confusion. Trembling and throbbing in head, pains in heart extend to head. Head seems too large. Head externally sensitive.
Lycopodium Clavatum
Bipolar disorder. Melancholy; afraid to be alone. Little things annoy, extremely sensitive. Averse to undertaking new things. Head strong and haughty when sick. Loss of self-confidence. Hurried when eating. Constant fear of breaking down under stress. Apprehensive. Weak memory, confused thoughts; spells or writes wrong words and syllables. Failing brainpower. Cannot bear to see anything new. Cannot read what he writes. Sadness in morning on awaking. Shakes head without apparent cause. Twists face and mouth. Pressing headache on vertex. Day-blindness. Night-blindness more characteristic. Sees only one-half of an object. Ulceration and redness of lids. Eyes half open during sleep.
Calcarea Carbonica
Melancholy, dejection, and sadness. Disposition to weep, even about trifles. Vexation and lamentation, on account of old offences. Anxiety and anguish, excited by fancies, or frightful stories, also with shuddering and dread during the twilight, or at night. Excessive anguish, with palpitations of the heart, ebullition of the blood, and shocks in the epigastrium. Anxious agitation, forbidding rest. Bipolar disorder. Sadness, with heaviness in the limbs. Apprehensions. Easily frightened or offended. Self-willed. Discouragement and fear of death. Impatience, excessive excitability, and excessive liability to mental impressions; the least noise fatigues. Excessive ill-humor and mischievous, obstinacy and a disposition to take everything in bad part. Indifference, apathy, and repugnance to conversation.
Aversion to others. Absence of will. Weakness of memory and of conception, with difficulty in thinking. Dizziness of mind. Tendency to make mistakes in speaking, and to take one word for another. Delirium with visions of fires, murders, rats and mice. Head compressed, as if by a vice. Dizziness after scratching behind the ear.
Passiflora Incarnata
Convulsions. Morphine habit. Delirium tremens. Convulsions. Epilepsy. Erysipelas. Exophthalmos. Levitation. Sciatica. Insomnia. Tetanus; neonatorum. Hysteria; puerperal convulsions. Bipolar disorder. Acute mania. Atonic condition generally present.
Iodium
Anxiety when quiet. Present anxiety and depression, no reference to the future. Sudden impulse to run and do violence. Forgetful. Must be busy. Fear of people shuns everyone. Melancholy. Suicidal tendency. Bipolar disorder. Vertigo; worse from stooping, in warm room. Chronic, congestive headache of old people.
Phosphorus
Amativeness; dizziness of the mind. Nymphomania. Sudden mood changes. Melancholy sadness and melancholy, violent weeping – interrupted by fits of involuntary laughter. Laughs at serious things. Stupor, low, muttering delirium; loquacious. Thinks he is several pieces and cannot adjust the fragments. Great apathy; very sluggish; dislike to talk; answers slowly or not at all. Fear: in evening; of darkness; of specters (ghost, jinni, aliens etc); of things creeping out of corners. Hypochondriacal sadness. Disgust to life. Apathy alternating with angry words and acts. Great irascibility, anger, passion, and violence. Misanthropy. Shamelessness, approaching insanity. Great indifference to everything, and even to patient’s own family. Forgetfulness. Great flow of ill-assorted ideas. Zoomantic condition; state of clairvoyance. Ecstasy.
Veratrum Album
Melancholy, with stupor and mania. Sits in a stupid manner; notices nothing; Sullen indifference. Frenzy of excitement; shrieks, curses. Puerperal mania. Aimless wandering from home. Delusions of impending misfortunes. Bipolar disorder. Mania, with desire to cut and tear things (Tarant). Attacks of pain, with delirium driving to madness. Cursing, howling all night.
Tarentula Hispanica
Sudden alteration of mood. Foxy. Destructive impulses; moral relaxation. Must constantly busy herself or walk. Sensitive to music. Averse to company but wants someone present. Ungrateful, discontented. Guided by whims. Paroxysms of insanity. Hysteria. Hallucination. Great taciturnity and irritability; desire to strike himself and others. Excessive gaiety laughs at slightest cause, maniacally happy mood. Mischievous, destructive.
How can I help someone who is experiencing a hallucination?
If you’re with someone who’s experiencing a hallucination, there are some steps you should take:
- Assess the situation and determine if the hallucination is a problem for the person or you. If the hallucination upsets them or leads them to do something dangerous, react calmly and quickly with reassuring words and a comforting touch.
- Don’t argue with the person about what they’re experiencing. If their behavior in response to their hallucination isn’t dangerous, you may not need to intervene.
- Avoid trying to reason with the person experiencing a hallucination. You can say you don’t see what your loved one is seeing, but some people find it more calming to acknowledge what the person is seeing to minimize stress. For example, if the person sees a dog in the room, it may be more helpful to say, “I’ll take the dog out,” rather than arguing that there’s no dog.
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