classification and diagnoise of OCD
- Created by: becca ellis
- Created on: 17-12-12 21:35
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- classification and diagnoise of OCD
- obessions
- recurrent intrusive thoughts or impulses or images
- producd anxiety
- percieved as uncontrollable
- sufferer often fears that they will lose control and act upon them
- common obessional themes
- contamination (germs and classes in other cultures)
- dobut (haven't done something that is important like locking the door)
- images (fleeting sexual images ect)
- impluses (need to go and shout out obsenities)
- complusions
- repetative behaviours or mental acts that reduce the anxiety or believed to prevent something dreaded from happening
- common compulsion themes
- behavioural
- checking (checking you have turned the lights of then times before you drive away for work)
- hand washing (repeatedly washing hands to get rid of possible germs)
- mental
- counting
- praying
- behavioural
- dsm diagnosis
- thoughtsnb aren't just acessive worries about real life
- obsession is recurrent and cause anxiety or distress
- person tries to repress such thoughts or nuetralise them with an action
- realise that it is from their own mind
- compulsion is repeatitive responce to the obession
- person must realise that it is excessive or unrealsonable
- obsession or compulsion must take more than one hour a day
- must significantly interfere with the persons normal life
- no other axis one disorders are presant
- icd dagnosis
- symptoms must be present for 2 weeks
- all must be present
- knowledge that it has come from within their own mind
- must be repetative and unpleasant
- should be acknowledged as either excessive or unreasonable
- must not hold any enjoyment for the patient
- must cause interference in the patients life
- obessions
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