[Exam 3] Chapter 15: Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders Flashcards
What was OCD previously classified as?
An anxiety disorder due to sometimes extreme anxiety that people experience
What does the spectrum approach include?
Repetitive behaviors of various types: Self-soothing behaviors, such as trichotillomania, dermatillomania or onychophagia; reward seeking behaviors such as hoarding, kleptomania, pyromania, or oniomania and disorders of body appearace
Spectrum Approach: What are the self-sooth behaviors?
Trichotillomania
Dermatillomania
Ocychophagia
Spectrum Approach: What are reward-seeking behaviors?
Hoarding, kleptomania, pyromania, or oniomania
Spectrum Approach: Disorders of body appearance or function includes what?
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: What are obsessions?
Recurrent, persistent, intrusive, and unwanted thoughts, images, or impulses that cause marked anxiety and interfere with interpersonal, social, or occupational function. Believe they have no control over them
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: What are compulsions?
Ritualistic or repetitive behaviors or metnal acts that a person carries out continuously in an attempt to neutraize anxiety. This includes repetitive hand washing
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: What are counting rituals?
Each step taken, ceiling tiles, concrete blocks or desks in a classroom
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: What are checking rituals?
repeatedly making sure the door is locked or coffee is turned off
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: What are ordering rituals?
arranging and rearranging furniture or items on a desk or shelf in perfect order
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: What is exhibiting rigid performance?
getting dressed in unvarying pattern
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: What are aggressive urges?
for instance, to throw ones child against a will
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: What are some other examples of compulsions
washing until skin raw
Praying
Touching or rubbing
When is OCD diagnosed?
Only when these thoughts , images, and impulsees consume the person or they are compelled to act out the behaviors to a point at which they interfere with person and social functions
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: How may person feel if they don’t perform the rituals?
They use it to alleviate anxiety and prevent terrible thoughts
OCD & Onset/Clinical: When does it start?
Childhood, especially in males. Females, in their 20s.
OCD & Onset/Clinical: Early onset is more likely to affect who?
males and they have more severe symptoms, m ore comorbid diagnoses, and a greater likelihood of family history of OCD
OCD & Related Disorders: What is Excoriation disorder? (Dermatillomania)
Self soothing behavior. behavior is an attempt of people to soothe or comfort themselves, not that skin picking is a positive sensation
OCD & Related Disorders: What is necessary to treat excoriation disorder?
Medicine, surgery and plastic surgery as well at psychiatry on tx team.
OCD & Related Disorders: Alternative therapies for excoriation?
yoga, acupuncutre, and biofeedback are helpful when included
OCD & Related Disorders: What is trichotillomania?
Chronic hair-pulling , causes distress and functional impairment
OCD & Related Disorders: Onset for trichotillomania?
Childhood but can persist into adulthood with development of anxiety and depression.
OCD & Related Disorders: Trichotillomania occurs most often with who
females than males
OCD & Related Disorders: trichotillomania tx?
behavioral therapy
OCD & Related Disorders: What is BDD?
Preoccupation with an imagined or slight defect in physical appearance that causes significant distress for the individual and interferes with functioning in daily living
OCD & Related Disorders: What does someone with BDD often worry about?
Defect, often blaming of lifes problems on their flawed appearance. This is why they are unsuccessful at work, feel unhappy, etc.
OCD & Related Disorders: What tx do those with BDD try to do?
Elective cosmetic surgery, but person is still dissatisfied and ifnds another flaw.
OCD & Related Disorders: Overlap between BDD and other diagnoses?
Anxiety, depression, social anxiety disorder, adn excoriation didsorder
OCD & Related Disorders: Tx for BDD?
SSRI effective in relapse prevention
OCD & Related Disorders: What is hoarding disordeer?
Progressive, debilitating compulsive didsorder only recently diagnosed on its own.
OCD & Related Disorders: Age for hoarding disorder?
20-30 and common with 2-5 % of population.