The TV show I will be exploring in detail is the Big Bang Theory. This is a popular American sitcom produced by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady. It is currently on its tenth season and has been renewed for another two seasons on CBS. According to the Big Bang Theory fansite (2007-2017), The Pilot was first released on September 24, 2007. This show focuses on the daily lives of two geeky physicists named Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter. Their introverted lives change when the attractive, social butterfly Penny moves next doors to them and teaches them common sense and how to socialize with others. She soon becomes incorporated into Sheldon and Leonard’s social circle, which includes the quirky engineer Howard Wolowitz and the shy astrophysicist
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B. The obsessions or compulsions are time-consuming (e.g., take more than 1 hour per day) or cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
C. The obsessive-compulsive symptoms are not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or another medical condition.
D. The disturbance is not better explained by the symptoms of another mental disorder
While I will only focus on Sheldon’s OCD symptoms in this paper, Sheldon Cooper also displays other signs of mental disorders such as Asperger’s Syndrome, Narcissism, Ornithophobia, and Social Anxiety.
Sheldon Cooper meets the criteria for three major categories of OCD. Sheldon meets the first criteria of having repetitive behaviors by engaging in repetitive knocking behaviors. Sheldon feels an urge to knock on his neighbor Penny’s door with three sets of three knocks, with each set followed by Penny’s name. For instance, it would go as follows:
“Knock knock knock”
Penny!
“Knock knock knock”
Penny!
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An empirical study conducted on the repetitive behaviors of OCD and ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) was conducted by Zandt et. al (2006) at the University of Melbourne. The major goals of the study were to compare the similarities and differences in repetitive behavior amongst children and adolescents with OCD and ASD. By notifying the differences between these two disorders, differential diagnosis will become easier. This paper in particular relates to Sheldon because he displays symptoms of both OCD and ASD, so it will allow me to determine if I diagnosed him
B. The obsessions or compulsions are time-consuming (e.g., take more than 1 hour per day) or cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
C. The obsessive-compulsive symptoms are not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or another medical condition.
D. The disturbance is not better explained by the symptoms of another mental disorder
While I will only focus on Sheldon’s OCD symptoms in this paper, Sheldon Cooper also displays other signs of mental disorders such as Asperger’s Syndrome, Narcissism, Ornithophobia, and Social Anxiety.
Sheldon Cooper meets the criteria for three major categories of OCD. Sheldon meets the first criteria of having repetitive behaviors by engaging in repetitive knocking behaviors. Sheldon feels an urge to knock on his neighbor Penny’s door with three sets of three knocks, with each set followed by Penny’s name. For instance, it would go as follows:
“Knock knock knock”
Penny!
“Knock knock knock”
Penny!
“Knock knock …show more content…
An empirical study conducted on the repetitive behaviors of OCD and ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) was conducted by Zandt et. al (2006) at the University of Melbourne. The major goals of the study were to compare the similarities and differences in repetitive behavior amongst children and adolescents with OCD and ASD. By notifying the differences between these two disorders, differential diagnosis will become easier. This paper in particular relates to Sheldon because he displays symptoms of both OCD and ASD, so it will allow me to determine if I diagnosed him