Clinical Characteristics of OCD
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- Created on: 17-11-14 17:20
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- Clinical Characteristics of OCD
- Obsessions
- Recurrent, intrusive and persistent thoughts, ideas, images and impulses.
- These are normally grouped into categories: Dirt and contamination, aggression, orderliness, illness, sex and religion.
- These are found to be distressing and cause anxiety and therefore are neutralised with some form of action.
- People with OCD know these obsessions are from their own minds unlike schizophrenic patients.
- Patients know these obsessions are unreasonable as they are time-consuming and interrupt with every day life.
- Recurrent, intrusive and persistent thoughts, ideas, images and impulses.
- Compulsions
- Excessive, irresistible, repetitive physical or mental actions that people feel compelled to carry out.
- Performed in response to an obsession.
- Their function is to; reduce personal distress and prevent some objectively unlikely event.
- Common rituals: Checking, cleaning, counting rituals and dressing rituals. Failure to carry these out will cause anxiety.
- Sufferers also realise that the compulsions are unreasonable.
- Problematic because; may be harmful, interfere with everyday life and sufferers are also tend to be secretive.
- Performed in response to an obsession.
- Excessive, irresistible, repetitive physical or mental actions that people feel compelled to carry out.
- Physiological
- Involuntary physiological responses such as dry mouth, tensed muscles and perspiration.
- Behavioural
- Freeze or run away.
- Emotional
- Panic and alarm, drained and overwhelmed.
- Demographic
- Seems to occur equally in men and women.
- Incidence and prevalence
- Affects 1-3% of the population occurring equally in people of different ethnicities and races.
- Course
- Onset is usually in adolescence or adulthood although it can begin in childhood. Some people develop symptoms fairly quickly. 30% of cases have no clear triggers.
- Prognosis
- 30% of patients improve considerably in response to some kind of treatment, 40% show moderate improvement and 30% do not considerably recover.
- About 30% of patients also have depression and suicide can be a risk.
- Obsessions
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