Arithmomania or obsessive compulsive numerological disorder What does it imply?

What is known as obsessive compulsive disorder (or TOC, as is normally abbreviated) consists of a series of thoughts that are presented in the form of a pattern and interfere negatively in the daily life of a person. In order to be able to represent it in a simpler way, it could be said that whoever suffers a disorder of this nature is constantly faced by a Loop or loop of negative thoughts that end up becoming obsession.

The obsessions faced by people with these disorders, usually involve intense fears of imaginary or very unlikely situations. However, the disturbance caused by the remote idea that something unwanted happens for these people is really severe. This fear leads to those who have a TOC to make behaviors that they consider preventing the situation that frightens them to happen effectively.

For example, it could happen that someone has the idea that, if you do not check at least five times the door of your house when you leave, thieves could enter your home. Therefore, every time it leaves, it will check five times that the door is effectively closed. This example is a clear case of arithmomania, which is neither more nor less than one of the many variants of compulsive obsessive disorders, closely linked to mathematics and numerology. Keep reading this article to enter its implications.

Content

• Arithmomania, what is
  • Manifestations
• Consequences of arithmomania
• Do not let the arithmomania get to your well -being
  • Bibliographic references

Arithmomania, what is

Aritmomania consists, as explained, in a type of TOC. Who presents it, feels the need to count, constantly. In this way, counting how many times does a certain activity, also feeling the need to add any digit that sees or could have a compulsion that implies counting the objects in a room.

No matter how it manifests, arithmomania always presents itself as the need to perform mathematical counts or operations regularly. As previously established, for this and all types of TOC, not carrying out the compulsion implies for the person who presents it to the possibility that a danger to which they will happen. Therefore, they always carry out their counts, and the anxiety that produces them not to make them is very large.

Manifestations

If you suspect that you suffer or someone close to you could be suffering arithmomania, it will be useful to know its main symptoms or manifestations, that is, those actions that could be a sign that would indicate that someone has arithmomania.

This TOC may appear as:

• The sum of visualized digits. For example, someone with arithmomania could count the prices of a supermarket products.
• The counting of objects. Maybe they could count the objects present in the room in which they are or, also, how many elements see in a painting.
• On other occasions, people with arithmomania repeat a certain number of times what they say or do, always respecting the same number of series.
• Avoid numbers. The most frequent case is the number 13, which is considered "bearer of bad luck". Perhaps they prevent the volume number of the TV from being established in a certain value.
• Count. Who has arithmomania could always have to count even a certain number before doing something.
• Perform mathematical operations constantly. It is the most common that, who has this TOC, performs calculations in everyday situations, where another person would not. For example, they could ask a person's date of birth to calculate his age in months or days.

TOC: Types of Obsessions and Compulsions more common

These are simply, and as an example, the most regular manifestations of arithmomania. If you have any of these symptoms, or you know someone to manifest them, it will be best to look.

Consequences of arithmomania

Like everything TOC, Aritmomania can lead someone to waste a lot of their time by dedicating their attention to their obsessive thoughts. Also, much of the day of a person can go in the development of compulsions or behaviors that he performs considering that, if doing it, what is so afraid will not happen.

Imagine all the time that someone who, when going to a store, feels the need to add the costs of all the products he sees, because otherwise he considers something bad could happen could happen.

In any of its forms, a disorder of this type is harmful to those who live with it since its life is relegated to the realization of acts to "avoid" that something bad happens.

Do not let the arithmomania get to your well -being

There are a number of possible interventions when deciding to deal with an OCT, such as arithmomania. The sooner the diagnosed disorder is, the better conditions it will be for treatment.

Cognitive behavioral therapy has proven to be the most efficient psychotherapies for the treatment of different types of TOC. This technique focuses on negative thoughts, its irrationality and the emotional sensation of that person who manifests them. With cognitive restructuring exercises it is possible to give other meaning to those thoughts, their real sense, moving away from the one who presents them with their discomfort.

Exhibition is an intervention that is usually used in this type of therapies. It consists of, precisely, to face who has a touch of their fears, so that they can show that nothing bad will happen. For example, in these cases, the person who feels cannot be in a room would be asked without counting how many objects there are in it, who fights against their impulses and does not do so. Thus, however difficult it may be, you will see that nothing bad will happen.

It is not impossible. Professional interventions have proven to be efficient. Make your query if you suspect that you can be traveling an obsessive disorder such as arithmomania.

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Bibliographic references

• Jarne, a. (2015). Clinical Psychopathology Manual. Editorial Herder.
• Tata, f. (2019). Arithmomania and the Art of Rounding.
• Velosillo, p. S., & Vicario, to. F. C. (2015). Compulsive obsessive disorder. Medicine-Proven Medical Training Program.