Grande's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Grande’s (2014) three videos in this activity were informative on obsessive compulsive, posttraumatic stress, and social anxiety disorders. Grande presented the fundamental facets of each disorder, all of which encompass the criteria in the DSM-5 manual. Of note on obsessive compulsive disorder was Grande’s reference to how compulsive behaviors lack any realistic connection to what obsessions they attempt to neutralize. For example, an individual anxious over losing a job may count the cheerios in his bowl each morning. Clearly, there is no relationship between the obsession and compulsion. A second aspect of the disorder is the behavior is usually excessive, and counting each bowl of cereal is a bit over the top and has nothing to do
Grande’s example using the dog attack provided a clear illustration of how PTSD develops subsequent to a threat of death. I found the example helpful in understanding how facing a threat of death (dog attack) may engage in subtle avoidance behaviors because of the traumatic experience. More interesting is Dr. Grande’s suggestion that avoidance behaviors do not necessarily involve blatant measures of prevention but can come across as insignificant (subtle) actions to an outside observer. Therefore, therapists need to consider all symptoms not just the more obvious ones presented by the client. Another feature of PTSD that Dr. Grande touched on concerned remission and how one could suffer with the disorder for more than 50 years. This statement shows how important assessments are and how important it is to conduct a thorough one. Finally, Dr. Grande’s comment on developmental regression was intriguing; in that, if children can regress to an earlier developmental period, then why not adults. I will have to do more research on regression in the
Does this have to do with the effects of early treatment or do female rates progressively increase as individuals move into adulthood. On PTSD, I am puzzled as to why physical violence was not included in the criteria since it specified sexual violence. Similar to sexual violent acts, physical violence can cause serious injury and expose one to actual or threatened death. Thus, why not just include physical violence. Another question on PTSD includes more information on developmental regression. Do adults regress to earlier phases of development and how regressive an adults behavior compared to children’s’ behaviors. On social anxiety disorder, I would as Dr. Grande if the disorder is content specific. For example, my daughter’s friend is comfortable in competitive sports but is extremely anxious when discussing class presentations. In addition, I dropped a graduate course when I found out it included a class presentation; however, I eventually finished it and have no problem with public speaking