A little over a week from now‚ October 8th through the 14th‚ is OCD awareness week. About a year and a half ago‚ I became severely anxious regarding stepping on floors such as linoleum due to the cracks and lines. This might be hard to understand‚ but for me it felt real. My distorted idea was that if I stepped on a crack‚ my family members will become sick or injured. Soon the only flooring I was able to walk freely on was carpet and certain woods. I couldn’t go in public‚ I couldn’t use many bathrooms
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your mind‚ perhaps you have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD may not be as rare as originally thought. All children have worries and doubts‚ but children with OCD often can’t stop worrying‚ no matter how much they want to. And those worries frequently force them to behave in certain ways over and over again. OCD is an anxiety disorder that is described as someone with obsessive thoughts and/or compulsive behavior. People with OCD are caught up in repetitive behavior and thoughts that they
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obsessive-compulsive disorder? Not many. Yet OCD is diagnosed nearly as often as asthma and diabetes. It’s estimated that 2.2 million American adults have obsessive-compulsive disorder. This is slightly more than the number of people who reside in Houston‚ Texas‚ the 4th largest city in the country. And according to the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation‚ people go an average of 17 years between the time OCD symptoms begin and the time they begin treatment. As someone who has OCD‚ I’d like to talk to you about
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professor from Harvard‚ where students get good grades in exchange for money. Over the last few years‚ there have been debates whether this program would benefit the students and their education. Students should not get paid to get good grades. First of all‚ it defeats the purpose of school if students get paid for their grades. One of the main points of school is to learn. They shouldn’t bribe students with money for them to do better in school. If students get paid‚ they are going to forget everything
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder OCD stands for obsessive-compulsive disorder. An individual with OCD tends to worry about many different things. On average‚ one out of fifty adults currently suffer from this disorder‚ and twice that many have had it at some point in their lives. When worries‚ doubts‚ or superstitious beliefs become excessive then a diagnosis of OCD is made. With OCD it is thought that the brain gets stuck on a particular thought or urge and just can’t let go. Most often people with OCD describe the
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certain objects‚ straightening and cleaning things‚ repeatedly washing hands‚ refusing to touch doorknobs or handles‚ refusing to shake hands‚ and repeating certain phrases‚ words‚ or prayers. Transition: Now that I have told you about the symptoms of OCD‚ I will inform you on the causes. B.
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A twenty seven year old man sits at his mother’s dining room table. Placed in front of him is a plate filled with all the contents of a perfect roast dinner. He moves the plate two centimetres to the left. How hard can it be? Why can’t she just for once‚ just for once properly organise the way she places food on the plate. Just for once put the plate in the right place on the table. She knows I like it directly in front of me. The centre of the plate needs to line up directly with the middle
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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
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Hell for Hughes Howard Hughes created a name for himself by becoming a businessman‚ a movie producer‚ an engineer and a great aviator. Through these jobs‚ he created some of the greatest movies of all time such as “Scarface”‚ “Hell’s Angels” and “The Outlaw”. He was also one of the most prominent aviators in history. As an aviator he set multiple world air speed records and created and built the famous Hughes H-1 Racer and the H-4 Hercules aircraft. He also acquired and expanded Trans
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Diagnosis: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) Treatment: Exposure with response prevention (ERP) Justification for Diagnosis: Obsessive compulsive disorder involves the individual being largely preoccupied with intrusive and irrational thoughts (obsessions)‚ followed by the need to repeatedly act on these thoughts (compulsion) as a means to relieve anxiety associated with them. Based on the information from the case study‚ Carmen started developing a phobia of germs and habitat of turning off
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