Obsessive compulsive disorder, people often think of a person that has a very well organized home. However that is not always the case. (OCD) is more than that. It is an anxiety disorder in which a person has undesired thoughts, feeling, ideas, sensations, that lead to compulsion. In order to provide temporary relief, they engage in beliefs to get rid of the obsessive thoughts.
Stacey is a 30 year old unmarried woman without children, and she is living with (OCD). She has an organizational problem, but she also is a hoarder. For example, if is she walking down the street and happens to see’s an expensive glove on the ground, she will not leave it on the side of the road. She doesn 't feel that there is nothing wrong with the glove, and that …show more content…
She is trying to clean and it is very difficult for her when she has to do everything in a particular order. She starts by organizing her writing utensils. She has a certain order for everything. The pens must be in the pen container and pencils must be in the pencil container. They must be in order by color and they have to face a certain direction, downward preferably. The reason everything is color coordinated, is because it looks more appealing to her. The pen and pencil are facing downward because, she has a fear that she or someone else may be injured when attempting to pick up a writing utensil. All notebook’s must be in the notebook drawer. There is a certain arrangements the notebooks must be in the drawer. Everything must be organized from smallest to largest, additionally, width and length is taken into consideration along with area surface. She find this method to look appealing and she fears that someone may notice the unorganization of her notebooks. As she is cleaning, she finds a DVD in the drawer that is not supposed to be in there this starts a new obsession. She goes to put the DVD away where it belongs and notice that it should be done in alphabetical order. She then realizes some DVD’s have numbers as well. Therefore, she must start with the numbers first then alphabetical order which starts another obsession. Once again she prefers things to look a certain way because she is worried about how people will view
Stacey is a 30 year old unmarried woman without children, and she is living with (OCD). She has an organizational problem, but she also is a hoarder. For example, if is she walking down the street and happens to see’s an expensive glove on the ground, she will not leave it on the side of the road. She doesn 't feel that there is nothing wrong with the glove, and that …show more content…
She is trying to clean and it is very difficult for her when she has to do everything in a particular order. She starts by organizing her writing utensils. She has a certain order for everything. The pens must be in the pen container and pencils must be in the pencil container. They must be in order by color and they have to face a certain direction, downward preferably. The reason everything is color coordinated, is because it looks more appealing to her. The pen and pencil are facing downward because, she has a fear that she or someone else may be injured when attempting to pick up a writing utensil. All notebook’s must be in the notebook drawer. There is a certain arrangements the notebooks must be in the drawer. Everything must be organized from smallest to largest, additionally, width and length is taken into consideration along with area surface. She find this method to look appealing and she fears that someone may notice the unorganization of her notebooks. As she is cleaning, she finds a DVD in the drawer that is not supposed to be in there this starts a new obsession. She goes to put the DVD away where it belongs and notice that it should be done in alphabetical order. She then realizes some DVD’s have numbers as well. Therefore, she must start with the numbers first then alphabetical order which starts another obsession. Once again she prefers things to look a certain way because she is worried about how people will view