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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 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…

Supporters claim that antidepressants is the best solution for dealing with this type of illness. People of all ages have been able to live more fulfilling lives. According to the article " Are antidepressant drugs safe for young patients" it states "By making treatment of depression easier, they say, the drugs have allowed many people to overcome the stigma traditionally associated with mental health problems. As a result, Americans are more honest about their mental health, allowing them to…

According to the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder foundation,(Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder,2013).“OCD is a medical brain disorder that causes problems in information processing.” They compare OCD to a brain spasm; when your brain freezes on a certain thought and is unable to move forward. The brain is incapable of dealing with any thoughts of worry or doubt. This may cause many side effects that can clearly perceive a person as OCD. Obsessive compulsive disorder is a disease that is well known of,…

SSRIs is short for selective seronin reuptake inhibitors. They have the most tolerable side effects. Its brand names include Celeca, Lexapro, Prozac, and Zoloft. SSRI targets something called serotonin which is the primary neurotransmitters that help regulate mood. When serontonin gets low, SSRI helps balance by blocking its reabsorbtion. This generally helps the clouds of depression, but although it seems like a good drug it has many side effects…

The major increase in psychiatric drugs prescribed by psychiatrists has raised some alarm among the screening community. Nathaniel Lehrman expresses his concerns about the overmedication of children as a result of mental health screenings in his article “Mental Health Screenings in Schools Can Harm Children”. He accomplishes this through the use of statistics such as, “[t]he sale of psychiatric medications―antipsychotics and antidepressants―rose from $500 million to $20 billion between 1987 and…

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…

As Good as it Gets allows viewers to see to how a person with Obsession-Compulsive Disorder deals with his anxiety disorder in his everyday life. OCD is a disorder where a person would engage in repetitive behaviors such as switching the light switch, locking the door, closing a door, etc. for a certain amount of time. One who has OCD does these behaviors in order to release their anxiety. While watching this movie I was able to understand how hard it could be to be suffering from OCD and how…

In the United States the most prevalent form of mental illness is anxiety, according to the Anxiety Disorder Association of America. “Anxiety is feeling of dread that results from repressed feeling, memories, desires, and experience that emerge to surface of awareness “(Corey, G. (2013). There were 19 million grown-up of the years; 18 and elderly grown-up are afflicted by stress. Cause of anxiety that occur in all cultures. The impact of anxiety affects our behaviors in our environment causing…

“Dysthymia is an under-diagnosed mood spectrum disorder that is almost as common as major depression and, if left untreated, has a chronic course which can impact negatively on a patient’s quality of life” (Moch, 2011). Dysthymic disorder is a milder, more chronic form of depression that usually has an early onset, such as in childhood or adolescence, and last at least two years in length for adults and one year in length for children (Knippa, 2011). There are two forms of this disorder.…