come visit me - I’ll introduce you to some people who think that aliens visit them in the night.
So handy are you gonna actually like, add some real facts here or are we just to accept that OCD can be caused by people’s folks? Precisely how do parents create OCD in their kids?
Here are two guiding principles worth following in mental health issues:
1/ Causation of Mental States
Any mental health issue is multifactorial. There will be brain changes, cognitive process changes and behavour changes. These may all be caused by biological, psychological or social factors; or more accurately, by all three. It is called the bio-psycho-social approach. Similarly, such mental health issues may be affected positively or negatively by physical (medication, surgery), psychological and sociological type responses.
So, cause of an illness may be physical 'disability, learned or chosen responses, or socially imposed changes to brain states. Even if the primary cause is diagnosed as one of these, the other two axes affect the expression of the underlying condition.
Additionally, the internal make up of a person may change how they express their internal state to the world (I have known many people who suffer otherwisw debilitating psychotic states who manage their own condition internally.)
2/ Amelioration of Mental States
Just because a condition is somewhat ameliorated by medication, does not mean that lack of that chemical or its metabolites is a cause of the condition itself. (Similar rules apply for psychological and sociological interventions). We used to believe (at different times) that chlorpromazine was effective for almost any mental problem; it is now seen as a rather blunt instrument. The same goes for many other historic medications; and IMHO modern medications will be similarly critiqued in the future.
3/ Hi Opal. 