Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder

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…

OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a psychological disorder that is believed to originate from a number of factors such as their childhood upbringing and even their all-around environment. Although treating OCD naturally can be harder to work with and can require more patience from that…

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Obsessive-compulsive disorder, also known as OCD, is a misunderstood mental illness that causes one to have extremely unwanted, reoccurring obsessions or compulsions. Obsessions are unsuppressed, reoccurring thoughts or images in one’s head and compulsions are repetitive actions that one tries to help relieve the discomfort with. Having these obsessions and compulsions bring about a lot of uneasiness, distress and panic. These obsessions and compulsions will cause…

Stacey Sabish CN 718.L1 Psychopathology Case Study 2 DSM 5 Diagnosis – Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 300.0 with good or fair insight Rationale: Phillip has been presenting with symptoms for years, possibly beginning in his childhood. Phillip meets all criteria for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Phillip has recurrent and persistent thoughts and urges that are experienced at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and unwanted, and cause marked anxiety. Phillip has thoughts of his…

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…

Throughout the movie I only focus on three personality disorders. Which were obsessive compulsive disorder, borderline, and narcissism. OCD which is short for obsessive compulsive disorder is where you need orderliness, cleanliness, and organization. Boardline is instability of mood. Narcissism is the need of excessive admiration. Boardline is similar to bipolar. Bipolar is rapid mood changes, but borderline is more just being crazy and doing things out of the ordinary. The movie, “Mommy…

with the main purpose of measuring normal and abnormal personality traits. This test is a shorter version of the OMNI and is computer based, but it can also be administered with paper and pencil. The OMNI-IV assesses an individual by asking 375 questions with measures of 25 personality traits and 10 personality disorders, as well as 7 factor scales and 2 validity scales (Lanning, 2001). The items that are omitted from this test are the personality traits and factor scales. According to Lanning…

The complexity of characters within Hamlet Who is this character named hamlet? Why is he interesting or odd? Hamlet is a complex character. From the beginning of the story, we are introduced to his odd personality. Hamlet is full of contradictions. He is thoughtless yet alert, polite yet rude, caring yet careless. When Hamlet’s father passed away, he was filled with anger, Outrage and mistreatment. He shows a different side of himself when shows no regret when he is guilty for the deaths of…

In the case of Adam and his diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder, I believe that he was properly diagnosed. His behavior fulfills several of the DSM 5 diagnostic criteria; Adam is over the age of 18, and is able to receive this diagnosis. He lied to his therapist about several things. At one point he stated that he thought it was ridiculous that his father hit his mother, but it was later revealed that he abused Tisch, his girlfriend, as well. He admitted that he had no pity for the…

about the movie split. The character in that movie has a personality disorder, and it was extremely interesting to watch and learn about. 3Personality disorder is characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience. 4The movie split is about three girls who get kidnapped by a man that is diagnosed with 523 distinct personalities. The girls try to escape from him before his 24th frightful personality emerges. In this paper I will be giving examples from…