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