Chapter 6: OCD Flashcards
OCRD
OCD
hoarding disorder
body dysmorphia
body-focused
repetitive behavior disorder
Skin-picking disorder
OCD
Persistent and uncontrollable thoughts
compelled to repeat certain acts (again)
causes a lot of stress
interference with everyday function
Body dimorphic disorder
defects in physical appearance
repetitive behaviours or mental acts
Hoarding disorder
difficulty parting with possessions
needs to save the items
Trichotillomania
pulling of hair
marked hair loss
Excoriation disorder
picking of skin
marked lesions
Obsession
recurring thought that seems irrational and uncontrollable
Presence of obsession
- Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are intrusive and unwanted, and cause marked anxiety
- Ignores thoughts, urges, images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action
Presence of Compulsion
- Repetitive behaviour, or mental acts in response to an obsession
- Preventing or reducing anxiety or distress, or preventing some dreaded event or situation (excessive)
Core Features of Obsession
- Intrusive quality
- Unacceptability
- Subjective resistance
- Ego-dysonicity
Intrusive quality
Thought, image, or impulse enters consciousness in an unintended manner
Unacceptability
negative affect associated with the intrusion may vary from an annoyance to unpleasantness or distress to overwhelming fear
Subjective Resistance
suppress, dismiss, or prevent the obsession from entering consciousness
Uncontrollability
diminished control over the obsession
Ego-dystonicity
nonsensical, meaningless mental phenomena that have minimal implications to the self, to ideas, images, or impulses that are entirely inconsistent
