Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that fuel fear‚ leading to increased anxiety and eventual compulsive reactions. Both adults and children that suffer with OCD‚ are often aware that their thoughts and behaviors are irrational‚ however‚ the impulse to perform the compulsive ritual to relieve the anxiety of the obsessive thought‚ is too powerful for them to ignore. The cycle of anxiety‚ obsessive thoughts‚ and compulsive reactions‚ becomes
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is defined as a disorder in which a person has recurrent and unwanted thoughts‚ a need to perform repetitive and rigid actions‚ or both. According to DSM-5‚ a diagnosis of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is called for when obsessions or compulsions feel excessive or unreasonable‚ cause great distress‚ take up much time‚ and interfere with daily functions (Comer‚ 2015). The obsessions cause intense anxiety‚ while the compulsions prevent or reduce anxiety. Nina’s life revolves
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into fun‚ worthwhile activities or simply doing some relaxation techniques. On the other hand‚ a person with obsessive compulsive personality disorder deals anxiety in another way. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder in which a person experiences recurrent‚ unwanted thoughts (obsession) and manifests repetitive behaviors (compulsion). People with this kind of disorder are usually preoccupied with orderliness‚ perfectionism and control. They have constricted emotions or are having
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - Daisy Randone The movie Girl Interrupted gives a glimpse into the world of the psychiatric hospitals and their patients in the late 1960’s. Each of the characters exhibit symptoms of various psychological problems‚ while still being personable enough to allow viewers to sympathise with them. At some point in our lives‚ each of us feels as if we are on the outside of society like Susannah‚ or tries to manipulate others like Lisa. We do not‚ however‚ carry it
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Kristin Parramore-Eaker Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: clinical psychology application of treatments and approaches. October‚ 20‚ 2013 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) has a cognitive-behavioral component that includes a distortion of an individual’s environment. OCD has similar components to many anxiety disorders. Anxiety is a result of a disrupted and dysfunctional thought patterns. Anxiety produces adverse reactions affecting the nervous system and an overload of stimulation. Research
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CASE STUDY #1 1. Provisional Diagnosis: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 2. Rationale for the diagnosis: A. Presence of obsession‚ compulsion‚ or both: Obsession: the persistent thoughts of the client and attempts to ignore‚ suppress or neutralize these thoughts‚ impulses‚ or images ---- he feels some foods contain poisonous germs and diseases‚ any personal hygiene would interfere with his studying‚ he believes that the special rituals before eating‚ such as loud hissing‚ coughing‚ would allow the
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when the individual is convinced that something bad will definitely happen if they do not perform the rituals (American Psychiatric Association 3). Another primary and very common symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder is anxiety. As mentioned before‚ there are very close relations between the two disorders. Anxiety can be triggered by the obsessions and compulsions
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Personality disorders consist of maladaptive traits that will essentially over rule ones’ life‚ to the extent they cannot live a casual or satisfactory life. Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorder is one of many personality disorders that outweighs ‘normal’ personality traits and cause detrimental effects on individuals who suffer from the personality disorder‚ but are still capable of living a ‘successful’ life‚ which sounds completely paradoxical. OCPD (Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorder) stems
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outcomes and therefore is reinforced. The behavioural approach also suggests that compulsive rituals are learned due to a link between the anxiety associated obsession and the reduction of that anxiety. As a result ritualistic behaviour is reinforced and a person may link the act they have performed with changing the fearful situation which causes an accidental association to be formed which has the potential to become compulsive when an individual faces thoughts or situations which provoke anxiety. Another
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Patient Information: E.J. 15 year old. Caucasian. Female. S. CC: Dry‚ reddened hands/wrists HPI: Ellie’s mother reports that‚ about one month ago‚ she noticed that Ellie’s hands and wrists were very dry and reddened. She has been giving her lotion to apply but nothing seems to help and she has become concerned and thinks she might have eczema. Mother reports that she has tried to watch Ellie’s habits and hasn’t noticed anything super out of the ordinary. However‚ it is unknown as to her habits
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