Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive compulsive disorder, known as OCD. OCD is a mental health disorder that is brought upon by unreasonable thoughts and fears that cause the person to have compulsive behaviors. There are many different compulsive behaviors that people can have. They may excessively wash and clean themselves, check and count things, they may be extremely organized and require a strict routine, and also demand reassurance. People with OCD do not think that they have a problem until it drastically…

Movie Review: As Good As It Gets Destinee Starcher Psychology 281, Section 5 The movie as good as it gets tells the story of Melvin Udall, an elderly man suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Brooks, 1997). Mr. Udall meets the criteria for both an abnormal behavior and OCD. In lecture we discussed what constitutes abnormal behavior according to abnormal psychology. A behavior must both deviate from societal norms, and cause functional impairment to the individual (Beidel,…

help with financial issues, and they are there to help no matter what. In the midst of all of good parents however, there is a special group of parents that may not help the kid the way a parent should. The hot head, the helicopter, and the obsessive-compulsive parents are parents that will cause only more problems. Some may call it the bipolar parent, or the two-sided parent, but the hot head parent can put an abundant amount of strain on a kid’s life. Never knowing if they’re going to get…

Introduction Page This research paper explores what exactly Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is. This topic was chosen because of the lack of knowledge and misconception on OCD to the public eye. Many people think this is a disorder of excessive cleaning, but that is incorrect. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a complex disorder with three main parts to understand it: symptoms of OCD, treatments of OCD, and what causes OCD. These findings that we will discuss are significant because of what was…

stated that his mother might have had obsessive compulsion disorder but was never diagnosed. Mr. Hughes mentioned that he had attended college, but shortly dropped out after inheriting his father’s fortune. He stated that had wanted to pursue his dream…

the need to be in or around water to deal with his inner demons caused by Peter. It left a mental strain on his lifestyle so David could not deal with it in a “normal” psychological way. Unfortunately, many people suffer from the disorder (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) from trauma or a mental illness, which is often caused by poor…

are compulsions. There are thoughts and there are obsessions. The only difference between each two are the uncontrollable and volatile nature that is intrinsic to compulsions and obsessions. Together, they become the genetic condition of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. Imagine repeatedly checking if a door is locked nine times every night before bed. Imagine obsessing over a conversation that occurred many years ago that nobody remembers. Imagine never being able to stop thinking about…

a list options to read dealing with different mental health issues such as bipolar, OCD, Depression, Alcoholism, and Schizophrenia. I chose a book with OCD because I felt I could relate to this disorder a lot. This led me to my option, which was Just Checking: Scenes from the Life of Obsessive Compulsive. The book was written by Emily Colas, which makes it an autobiography, in 1998. She writes the books providing small journals of her daily life with her OCD. She is usually obsessed with…

organizing, sorting, or categorizing their items of any sort, are indecisive when it comes to the placement of items, distressed due to their vast amounts of items, and suspicions of others touching their stuff(Neziroglu). Hoarders also typically have obsessive actions and thoughts like checking trash cans to make sure they did not throw something away on accident or the fear of running out of an item as well as functional impairments such as a lack of living space, financial problems, health…

Interestingly enough Peter Langman, a psychologist developed characteristics for clearer understanding the mind-set of school shooters into three class typologies. The traumatized shooter as Dr. Langman describes, usually come from broken homes where they (the shooter) was either a victim of physical or sexual abuse or worse both. Also, the parents may be victims of substance abuse or have prior criminal history as he elaborates in his article, Rampage School Shooters: A Typology. The next…