Month: September 2022

Like social anxiety talked about in week 4 of my blog post the mental health disorder OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) plays an important part in personality. In accord to National Institute of Mental Health OCD reads as “a common, chronic, and long-lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts (“obsessive”) and/or behavior (“compulsions”) that he or she feels the urge to repeat over and over”. OCD can have this overpowering effect on a person’s personality. They may have to stop in their tracks and do whatever their brains tell them to do. There is the personality of a person not being bothered by OCD, then there is this personality that they can’t control. Having these two different personalities can cause a person to feel like they are living a double life. Many mental health disorders cause a person to feel as though there is two sides to them. To single out OCD, when a person is having a fit of compulsions it causes them to do nothing else but that compulsion. When a person with OCD has these obsessions they can’t help but to do that before anything else can get done. When a person with OCD has intrusive thoughts, it causes them to think nothing other than that.

Having this double life can cause a lot of strain on a person. Having the feeling of this double life can ensue OCD even more. To make this double life feel as one, there is treatment that a person with this mental health disorder, OCD, can go through. Mental Health disorders play a negative role in the doppelganger and double idea.

Mental health plays a big role in personality, so much that it can create a double of a person. It can make them feel as if they are a doppelganger to their own self. For this blog post I want to focus on the mental health disorder social anxiety. The definition of social anxiety according to google is: an intense fear of being watched and judged by others. While by themself they can be their true self. Once out in the public, social anxiety creates a barrier over them, they are new person. They can feel on top of the world, comfortable, and have a great feeling about themself– once their alone. The double persona that is shown in front of the public, they know isn’t their true self. You can feel trapped in a completely different body. Having a double in your life doesn’t have to mean a bad thing, but when it comes to social anxiety it is. Having that double in your life doesn’t seem worth it, it can create a distance between their own self. Having social anxiety means that a person can’t control what they put out. This “doppelganger” of themself is forced upon a person.

When having a double life a person get known for one of them, the external portion. Studies have shown that with treatment like therapy or even medication, can lead to a more cohesive personality. Which can exterminate a double life. The doppelganger can be treated when it comes to social anxiety.