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Obsessive - Compulsive disorder     Is a mental disorder characterized by the presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both of them.     Obsessions are recurrent, persistent, irresistible, and intrusive thoughts, urges, or images. These obsessions cause much annoyance, distress, and anxiety to the person. One of the essential features of obsessions is that they occur against the individuals will. Obsessions are usually repugnant to the patient; thus, the prudish person is tormented by sexual thoughts, the religious person by blasphemous thoughts and the timid person by thoughts of torture, murder and general mayhem.      Compulsions are repetitive behaviours (like hand washing, checking, or repeated acts) or mental acts ( like praying, or counting). They are also called rituals that the person feels driven to perform in response to the obsessions. Compulsions are the obsessional motor acts.  The behaviors typically prevent or reduce a person's distress related to an obsess

Why we lie? Pinocchio, a fictional story of  a wooden puppet that it's nose  gets longer every time it lies.     Lying is a conscious phenomenon by which the person deliberately chooses not to tell the truth for some reasons in his mind. People tell lies for so many different reasons Why people lie? 1 -Avoiding punishment: People may lie when they had done or about to do something that is likely to get other people angry or punish them. 2 - To get something: People may also lie in order to get something they want, or to achieve some certain goal they desire. 3 - Strengthening your situation: Sometimes people may find themselves lacking strong defense why discussing certain topic or a situation. So they may lie or fabricate some facts to make them appear right and convincing. 4 - Complete the plot! A person who tells a lie is more likely to tell another and another lies in order to make his story well plotted and seems reasoning. A person is firstly hesitant at weit