Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

Question 1

What are the key features in Body Dysmorphic Disorder?

Answer 1

• Preoccupation with on or more perceived defects or flaws in physical appereance - not observable by others
• Repetitive or mental acts in response to the appereance conerns

Question 2

What are the key features of Hoarding?

Answer 2

• Persistant difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their value
• Need to save the item for later or distress when parting with items
• Accumulation of items, significantly impacting physical living spaces

Question 3

What are the key features of Trichotillomania?

Answer 3

• Hair-pulling, recurrent behaviour, resulting in hair-loss
• Repeated attemps to stop or decrease it
• Significant distress

Question 4

What are the key features in Excoriation?

Answer 4

• Recurrent skin picking resulting in skin lesions
• Repeated attemps to stop or decrease
• Significant distress