Obsessive Compulsive And Related Disorders

Question 1

This term is defined by repetitive behaviors or mental acts that a person
feels driven to perform and is unrealistically aimed at preventing or reducing
anxiety/distress or a dreaded event and tend to be time-consuming

Answer 1

Compulsions

Question 2

The following diagnoses belong to which group?
● Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
● Body Dysmorphic Disorder
● Hoarding Disorder
● Trichotillomania (Hair-Pulling)
● Excoriation (Skin-Picking) Disorder

Answer 2

Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

Question 3

These criteria belong to which diagnosis?
● Preoccupation with imagined defect(s) in appearance that are not observable by others
● Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
● Significant distress or impairment

Answer 3

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Question 4

These criteria belong to which diagnosis?
● Presence of obsession, compulsions, or both
● The obsessions or compulsions are time-consuming or cause significant distress or impairment

Answer 4

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Question 4

This term is defined by recurrent, persistent thoughts, urges, or images
that are intrusive and unwanted attempts to ignore, suppress, or neutralize them with some other thought or action

Answer 4

Obsessions

Question 5

These criteria belong to which diagnosis?
● Persistent difficulty parting with possessions
● This difficulty is due to a perceived need to save the items and distress associated with discarding them.
● The difficulty discarding possessions results in the accumulation of possessions that congest and clutter active living areas and substantially compromises their intended use. If living areas are uncluttered, it is only because of the interventions of third parties
● It causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning
● Is not attributable to another medical condition
● Is not better explained by the symptoms of another mental disorder

Answer 5

Hoarding Disorder

Question 6

These criteria belong to which diagnosis?
● Recurrent pulling out of one’s hair, resulting in hair loss.
● Repeated attempts to decrease or stop hair pulling.
● The hair pulling causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
● The hair pulling or hair loss is not attributable to another medical condition
● The hair pulling is not better explained by the symptoms of another mental disorder

Answer 6

Trichotillomania (Hair-Pulling)

Question 7

These criteria belong to which diagnosis?
●Recurrent skin picking resulting in skin lesions.
● Repeated attempts to decrease or stop skin picking.
● The skin picking causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
●The skin picking is not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance (e.g., cocaine) or another medical condition (e.g., scabies).
● The skin picking is not better explained by symptoms of another mental disorder

Answer 7

Excoriation (Skin-Picking) Disorder