MENTAL CONAMINATION & OCD
RESEARCH BRIEF
Observe how contamination manifests itself in other fields of research. These disciplines might include mathematical sciences, physical science, chemical science, earth sciences, environmental sciences, biological sciences, agricultural sciences, Information and computing sciences, engineering, education, economics, language, history, medical and health sciences, psychology and cognitive sciences. What processes cause a pure element to be polluted, poisoned or contaminated? Think widely about such processes as mitosis (biological sciences), memory (health sciences), classical conditioning (psychology), erosion (earth sciences) etc. Diagram and present your extracted research. This should be a quick research piece limited to 1 x A3 page.
initiatives
As I was research on the Mental Contamination, I came across scientific research, titled 'Mental contamination obsessions: An examination across the obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions'; in which they dig deep into how OC system react to the contamination thoughts. This then led to further research on OCD, where this dis-contamination mechanism go overreactive, thus disrupting the individual's life, which we can regard as the contamination in living quality.
Mental CONTAMINATION (mc)
Mental Contamination, abbreviate as MC, is some mental thoughts being identified as dirty impure mind/thoughts. It could be related to some physical contamination: some grotesques stuff like faeces, or virus contamination HIV; or it could be the disgust/guilt toward sex. These all could arouse MC either by the contact of contamination (depend on the degree individual think it's contaminated) and lead to the reaction of the OC system, where physical acts like keeping sanitizing their hands / experiential avoidance, aka EA, to remain the unwillingness to contact with unwanted internal experiences, thoughts & feeling. The patient also tends to cleanse one's mind though there is an uncertainty of regarding how to achieve the purity of the thoughts.
OBSESSIVE compulsive disorder (OCD)
OCD happens cus of the overreactive front cortex, also some at the back, as illustrated in the following diagram from UCLA School of Medicine. The warm colour shows the relatively higher activity of orbital glucose (a key metabolism) than normal control, which might indicate the result of more intrusive thoughts being generates in OCD patients.
OCD TYPOLOGY
There are 6 types of OCD people, where they cope with the symptom differently. 'Stay-at-home Prisoner' tends to enclosed themselves from the outer world as the uncontrollable avoidance of getting contaminated; 'Technical Loner', which self-explanatory as it's called, mainly find in some tech-developers who comfortable getting along with the similar type of individuals like themselves. 'Self-employed Controller', which usually find in some business owner, who surprisingly appoint a few employees but everything has to be controlled under his/her preference. 'Pragmatists & Quot', is the main group of OCD, as they often suffer from their compulsive obsession, having social difficulty in communicating with others, thus quot when they get back to their comfort zone to quot. The last type is 'Hypochondria', where the person fears every little ache and pain, needs constant reassurance that they'll be okay.
HOW TO COPE with OCD
In dealing with OCD, you have to stay strong to your will as you are not your thoughts, the brain is just an organ that coordinates and proposes thoughts, they aren't truths and just watch the thoughts, just observe the thoughts as they arise and don't give them any meaning. Trying to stay clear out of the unsolicited thoughts as they use the logic of a child to keep you safe. Lastly, embrace it not think of it as a disease, and move onto more positive, even face the anxiety and challenge u to motivate work harder.
ps: These are just some main suggestions I collected from the internet. If you struggle with OCD symptom, please reach out for the expertise. Take care and don't be scare to reach out for help...
More insight to ocd...
Here attached some Youtube video which you might find it easier to comprehend the concept of OCD. A great thank to those Scientist who dedicates themselves into researching for better treatment for OCD, as well as the Youtuber delivering the great content concerning the OCD.
C H E e R S
CONNECTION TO ARCHITECTURAL CONTAMINATION
I find this context of OCD really fascinating as it's an over-reactive dis-contaminating symptom, which makes me question about the definition of contamination. When the dis-contaminating process goes extreme, it actually ends up being the contamination. Similarly in architectural contamination study, the architecture that we regard as contamination, might not be contaminating while dis-contaminating is. This allows us to reflect critically about the definition of contamination: what is true to be contamination?
