Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders Flashcards
Intrusive and mostly nonsensical thoughts, images, or urges that the individual tries to resist or eliminate.
Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced as intrusive and unwanted
Obsessions
Thoughts or actions used to suppress the obsessions and provide relief.
Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that an individual feels
driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rules that
must be applied rigidly.
Compulsions
Disorder characterized by the presence of obsessions, compulsions or both
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Specifier:
Iindividual recognizes that
obsessive-compulsive disorder beliefs are definitely or
probably not true or that they may or may not be true.
With good or fair insight
Specifier:
Individual thinks obsessive-compulsive disorder beliefs are probably true.
With poor insight
Specifier:
Individual is
completely convinced that obsessive-compulsive disorder
beliefs are true.
With absent insight/delusional beliefs
Specifier (OCD):
Individual has a current or past history of a
tic disorder.
Tic-related
4 subtypes of OCD
Symmetry
Forbidden thoughts
or actions
Cleaning/ contamination
Hoarding
Subtype of OCD:
Needing things to be
symmetrical/aligned
just so
Symmetry
Subtype of OCD:
Fears, urges to harm
self or others;
Fears of offending
God
Forbidden thoughts or actions
Subtype of OCD:
Fears of germs or
contaminants
Cleaning/Contamination
Disorder characterized preoccupation with one or more defects or flaws in physical
appearance that are not observable or appear slight to others
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Specifier of Body Dysmorphic Disorder:
Individual is preoccupied with the
idea that his or her body build is too small or insufficiently muscular.
With muscle dysmorphia
For decades, Body Dysmorphic Disorder was known as?
Dysmorphophobia
Disorder characterized by persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions,
regardless of their actual value.
Hoarding Disorder
3 major characteristics of Hoarding Disorder
Excessive acquisition of things
Difficulty discarding anything
Living with excessive clutter
The three major characteristics of Hoarding Disorder are called as?
Gross disorganization
Specifier of Hoarding Disorder:
Difficulty discarding
possessions is accompanied by excessive acquisition of
items that are not needed or for which there is no available
space.
With excessive acquisition
Defined as the accumulation of a large
number of animals and a failure to provide minimal standards of nutrition,
sanitation, and veterinary care, as well as failure to act on the deteriorating
condition of the animals and the environment
Animal Hoarding
The urge to pull out one’s own hair from anywhere on the body, including the scalp, eyebrows, and arms
Recurrent pulling out of one’s hair, resulting in hair loss
Trichotillomania (Hair-Pulling Disorder)
Repetitive and compulsive picking of the skin, leading to tissue damage
Recurrent skin picking resulting in skin lesions
Excoriation (Skin-Picking) Disorder
Difference of OCD Hoarding and Hoarding Disorder
Hoarding Disorder is more on an individual’s desires while OCD Hoarding is more about an individual’s obsession and compulsion
