OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a symptomatically diverse condition, in which numerous kinds of obsessions and compulsions exist. Obsessions have four essential features: repeated and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that is experienced as intrusive and cause anxiety. However, research indicates that certain obsessions and compulsions tend to co-occur to form five main dimensions: obsession about being responsible for causing or failing to prevent harm; symmetry obsession, and ordering or counting rituals; repugnant obsession concerning sex, violence, and religion; and hoarding (Jonathan S Abramowitz, Steven Taylor, Dean McKay, 2009).
Symptomology of OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, being a psychological disorder is identified as such by the symptoms that the individual possesses. The symptoms that an individual possess varies person to person and are divided into two groups, obsession and compulsion. Obsession is defined as “repeated, persistent and unwanted thoughts, urges or images that are intrusive and cause distress or anxiety”. Some symptoms of obsession are as follows: Fear of being contaminated by other objects that may have been touched, intense stress when objects aren’t orderly or facing a certain way, and/or images of hurting yourself or someone else that are unwanted and make the individual uncomfortable (“OCD-Symptoms …show more content…
The aim of the project are to: comprehensively describe the long-term patterns of OCD, identify predictors of remission and relapse, amount of psychiatric treatment received, relationship between psychosocial function, quality of life, and obsessive- compulsive symptom over follow-up period. Progress in any of these areas will not provide new information about the illness in OCD, but will help refine the existence of homogeneous subtypes in
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a symptomatically diverse condition, in which numerous kinds of obsessions and compulsions exist. Obsessions have four essential features: repeated and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that is experienced as intrusive and cause anxiety. However, research indicates that certain obsessions and compulsions tend to co-occur to form five main dimensions: obsession about being responsible for causing or failing to prevent harm; symmetry obsession, and ordering or counting rituals; repugnant obsession concerning sex, violence, and religion; and hoarding (Jonathan S Abramowitz, Steven Taylor, Dean McKay, 2009).
Symptomology of OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, being a psychological disorder is identified as such by the symptoms that the individual possesses. The symptoms that an individual possess varies person to person and are divided into two groups, obsession and compulsion. Obsession is defined as “repeated, persistent and unwanted thoughts, urges or images that are intrusive and cause distress or anxiety”. Some symptoms of obsession are as follows: Fear of being contaminated by other objects that may have been touched, intense stress when objects aren’t orderly or facing a certain way, and/or images of hurting yourself or someone else that are unwanted and make the individual uncomfortable (“OCD-Symptoms …show more content…
The aim of the project are to: comprehensively describe the long-term patterns of OCD, identify predictors of remission and relapse, amount of psychiatric treatment received, relationship between psychosocial function, quality of life, and obsessive- compulsive symptom over follow-up period. Progress in any of these areas will not provide new information about the illness in OCD, but will help refine the existence of homogeneous subtypes in