Ocd Case Study

Description Rebecca, a fictional character, is a 38-year-old female who suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. She is married with a son who is 10-years-old. She lives in Chicago, Illinois. She works in the retail business. Rebecca’s parents are divorced and she lived with her mother for most of her childhood. She has struggled with OCD behavior and anxiety since she was a teenager. Rebecca suffers from compulsive skin picking. She is constantly popping, picking, and scratching herself to the point that she makes herself bleed. Sometimes it gets so bad that the area where the wound is will get infected. She has a scab on her head that she has had for 30 years from when she had chicken pox as a child. She scratched it and picked it so much that it has never gone away. One time she scratched and picked it so bad that it got infected and gave her a huge knot on the back of her neck. Rebecca will also stand in front of a mirror of hours picking at her skin. She has hundreds of scars all over her body. She hides her body from her husband. She will not let him see her in the light. She covers herself with long sleeved shirts and never wears dresses or shorts. She feels ashamed of herself for making her body look so awful. Rebecca also suffers from compulsive hand washing. She has to go through a ritual very time she washes her hands. First, she has to set out two paper towels next to the sink. One is to turn on the faucet and one is to turn it off. When she washes her hands, she has to first make sure that the water is scolding hot. This is so that she knows that the germs are being killed. When she starts washing, she first scrubs with soap. She uses a little scrub brush for her hands and a toothpick to clean her nails. Then she rinses her hands and then washes again. This time she washes with soap and two squirts of bleach, she keeps a special bottle of bleach with a pump on the sink, and than rinses. After she is finished rinsing her hands, she uses the

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