Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive Compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common anxiety disorder that causes people to obsess over thoughts and may result in compulsive behavior. According to The National Institute of Mental Health “OCD affects between 2 and 3 million adults in the United States (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, OCD)”. This is the same amount of people living in the city of Houston, Texas! The International OCD Foundation estimates “There are also at least 500,000 children and teens with OCD (Who Gets OCD?)”.…

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a type of anxiety disorder characterized by thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead to repetitive behaviors (compulsions). Despite ones most valiant efforts, the distressing thoughts of obsessive-compulsive disorder keep coming back. (Greenberg, 2009) Obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms include both obsessions and compulsions. OCD obsessions are repeated ideas, thoughts, images or impulses that occur spontaneously and seem to make no sense. These…

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), is classified by any kinds of obsession either reoccurring thoughts, urges, or images in which causes the person to have anxiety or distress (Abramowitz, McKay, & Storch, 2014). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there is early data that reflects on how much of a burden this disorder can affect someone who suffers from it. Additionally, WHO characterized OCD as one of the most disabling of all medical disorders (Reghunandanan, Stein, & Fineberg…

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Case Study Jessica Freeman Eastern Maine Community College Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Case Study Karen is a married thirty year-old woman with four children. Even though she has been having issues with anxiety for years and depression for three months, Karen is living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). According to the American Psychiatric Association (2013), those with OCD show symptoms of arduous “…obsessions, compulsions, or both…” that cannot…

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a condition of excessive intrusive thoughts, called obsessions, that lead to repetitive behaviors or rituals, called compulsions, to soothe the brain. This condition makes people's brains feel overwhelmed or out of “control” of a simple worry, so it causes them to have irrational behaviors to calm this worry down. OCD obsessions usually occurs around themes such as doing well in school, excelling at athletics, job related matters, self appearance, keeping things…

Introduction Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Children today are being diagnosed with disorders generally associated with adults. One of these disorders is also called OCD. OCD is found in many children today. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, also called OCD is found in many children today. OCD is an anxiety disorder where people have repetitive thoughts (obsessions) which lead them to act on their feelings (compulsions). Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a treatable disorder. It is a type of…

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…

To diagnosis a psychological disorder more affectly, health professionals refer to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or DSM. DSM has its flaws but it is still consider the most frequent tool that helps diagnosis disorders. One of the most dramatic disorder is the Obsessive-Compulsive disorder or OCD. People with this disorder may not even know they have an obsession or they do know and they try and ignore it; this does not work. They will become distress and have anxiety until obsession is…

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a type of anxiety disorder which an individual experience “unwanted, reoccurring obsessive thoughts and behaviors that reduce the anxiety of the obsessions.” (NIMH » Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. (n.d.). Retrieved October 30, 2016, from https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/index.shtml). Those who suffer from OCD often repeat certain actions such as “washing their hands, checking, cleaning, counting, and arranging items in…

The anxiety disorder that Phillip, in the case study is experiencing seems to be the result of obsessive-compulsive disorder. If we look at the case study example for obsessive-compulsive disorder from the textbook according to (Sue et al.2014, p.107) Greenberg states that impulse thoughts and ideas are obsessions that lead to compulsion which is justification for what the individuals seems fit. It can make them over obsessive about ideas which if things don’t go perfect can lead to panic…