Compulsive hoarding

Have you ever washed your hands scrubbing them to the bone thinking they are still dirty after being clean? Did you drop a dollar and keep thinking you put it in your pocket when it’s still on the ground? Is the oven left on that you thought was turned off two or three times? Or have you repeated a task several times to ensure yourself that everything is okay so no one will get hurt? Sometimes in life people will try to make choices for you, have something negative to say about everything you…

Disorder, Paranoid Personality, Schizoid Personality, and Schizotypal Personality. Cluster B, which includes Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic and Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Finally Cluster C, which includes Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive. There is also a category for other personality disorders, such as those brought on by medical change and those that do not meet specific criteria for another personality disorder. Each personality disorder has its own specific…

At first I had trouble reading and understanding 'Body Ritual among the Nacirema’ by Horace Miner. Only after I read it through a second time did I really start to grasp the concept and the similarities to modern culture in America. I can identify with them because here where I live in Mississippi we are portrayed as a overweight state by most national media outlets.(https://wallethub.com/edu/fattest-states/16585/ (2017) These are blanket statements made by outsiders that see our state and…

being diagnosed with these new mental disorders are frequent, and explain behaviors that were exhibited decades ago. Binge Eating, Hoarding Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder are the three types of disorders that will be discussed in the following paragraphs. Binge Eating is a common disorder with youth and early adulthood. This disorder is branded by compulsive overeating, also known by consuming large amounts of food, with a sense of being out of control or powerless to stop. It…

The purpose of this paper is to discuss similarities, differences, causes, and treatments of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). With OCD, a client must have recurrent thoughts, impulses that become an issue within their day to day life (Meyer & Weaver, 2013). Many times, these thoughts become obsessional behaviors, such as counting to ten before applying deodorant under each arm, or repetitively checking to make sure the front door is locked ten to…

I expected hoarding of personal possessions and had expectations of observing obsessive compulsive characteristic. This was not what I found there was no evidence of OCD, no anxiety or ritualistic behaviours, The observation experience was a valuable lesson that my preconceived judgements may have contributed…

Consumerism has been around for roughly two centuries and has been affecting us mostly in a negative way. Two centuries ago, people started consuming at a faster rate than ever because stuff was cheap back in that time period. Everyone could buy large quantities of items. This means that people have access to buy whatever they want because of the low prices. People started to buy stuff they don’t need. Consumerism negatively affects all aspects of society. One example of how consumerism…

some elderly people who feel like they need to hold on to every little thing in their house. They just can’t find themselves throwing away the newspaper from ten years ago because it has a significant meaning to them. This is referred to as compulsive hoarding, to anyone else they might see it as trash, but to them it might have deep and meaningful memories. Another concept from this same chapter really stood…

Model and Conceptual Framework According to the criteria for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10), obsessional symptoms originate from within the mind of patients, as opposed to external sources. It is also characteristic for OCD patients to demonstrate some form of resistance, but at the end, they fail to resist at least one obsession or compulsion (Walitza et al., 2011).…

Everyone has heard of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. In fact, many people have the belief that they have obsessive compulsive disorder even when they really do not. They believe this for various reasons, some including wanting everything clean, being a “perfectionist,” etc. Against popular belief, a person is not OCD just because they expect things to be orderly and clean. Within another realm of disorders, rests Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder. Similar, but far from the same.…