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What are 5 types of obsessive compulsive disorders listed in the DSM 5?

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  • Obsessive compulsive disorder
  • Body dysmorphic disorder
  • Hoarding disorder
  • Hair pulling disorder
  • Skin picking disorder
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What are the behaviors of people with obsessive compulsive disorder supposed to reduce?

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  • It is supposed to reduce anxiety
  • Ex: skin picking is supposed to reduce pleasure because when people are stressed they need a distraction for their issues
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What are obsessions?

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  • Recurrent, persistent, intrusive, unwanted thoughts, urges or images
  • The person wants to ignore, suppress, or neutralize the thoughts words or images
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What are compulsions?

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  • Repetitive behaviors that the person feels compelled to perform to prevent distress or a dreaded event
  • The person feels compelled to perform the repetitive behavior or thoughts in response to obsessions or according to rigid rules
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What makes obsessions or compulsions a clinical concern for the individual?

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  • They take up at least an hour per day
  • Or cause the person significant distress or impairment
  • The person does not want them
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What are the main features of obsessive compulsive disorder?

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  • unwanted thoughts
  • create significant anxiety
  • often drive repetitive behavior that is excessive
  • not a part of the person’s control
  • ego-dystonic
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What are the five forms of obsessions?

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  • Doubts
  • Images
  • Thoughts
  • Impulses
  • Fears
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What are five forms of compulsive rituals?

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  • Cleaning
  • Checking
  • Repeating
  • Hoarding
  • Orderliness
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What are obsessions in terms of obsessive compulsive disorder?

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  • Intrusive, persistent, and uncontrollable thoughts or urges
  • Experienced as irrational
  • Most common: contamination, sexual and aggressive impulses, body problems
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What are compulsions in terms of obsessive compulsive disorder?

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  • Impulse to repeat certain behaviors or mental acts to avoid distress (ex: cleaning, counting, touching, checking)
  • Extremely difficult to resist the impulse
  • May involve elaborate behavior rituals
  • Compulsive gambling, eating etc. are NOT considered compulsions since they are pleasurable
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Do males and females have the same rate of OCD?

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Yes

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What is the performance element in OCD?

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  • People perform to just perform! They would rather do it alone and lie about what their disorder actually is
  • Does not always reduce anxiety
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What percentage of OCD patients experience obsessions and compulsions?

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69%

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What percentage of OCD patients only experience obsessions?

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25%

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What percentage of patients only experience compulsions?

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6%

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When does OCD develop?

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  • Age 10 or during late adolescence/early adulthood
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What population of people are more likely to seek treatment?

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Women

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What does the comorbidity rate for OCD?

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75%

  • Depression
  • Hoarding
  • Substance use disorder
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What is the psychodynamic explanation for OCD?

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  • Fixation at the anal stage of development

- Reaction formation

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What is the biological model for OCD?

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  • Genetic factors

- Dysfunction for in circuitry involving frontal cortex

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What is the cognitive behavioral model for OCD?

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  • Extremist (black and white) thinking

- Magical thinking

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How much more likely are monozygotic twins with OCD prone to developing OCD?

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What two brain structures are most commonly associated with OCD?

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Increased metabolic activity orbital frontal cortex, the basil ganglia, cingulate gyrus cortex

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What brain structure is most common with OCD?

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  • Caudate nucleus
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What are the behavioral components of OCD?
- Operant reinforcement | - Compulsions negatively reinforced
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What are the cognitive components of OCD?
- Lack of satiety signal - Individuals with OCD have a yadasentience (feeling of completion) deficit - Attempts to suppress intrusive thoughts
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What are psychological treatments for OCD?
- Exposure response prevention (ERP) | - Cognitive therapy
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What are medications to treat OCD?
- SSRI's | - Antidepressants
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What are biological treatments of OCD?
Psychotherapy
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What does cognitive therapy look like in OCD?
- Challenge beliefs about anticipated consequences of not engaging in compulsions
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What is body dysmorphic disorder?
- Preoccupied with imagined or exaggerated defect or appearance - Perceive themselves to be monstrous or ugly - High levels of anxiety, shame, and depression
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What do women focus on with body dysmorphic disorder?
Skin, hips, legs, breasts
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What do men focus on with body dysmorphic disorder?
Height, penis size, body hair, muscularity
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What compulsive behaviors do people with body dysmorphic disorder engage in?
- Check their appearance in mirrors often | - Camouflage their appearance
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Do men or women more commonly have body dysmorphic disorder?
Women
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What is the comorbidity rate for body dysmorphic disorder?
Almost all
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What are the cognitive and behavioral factors of body dysmorphic disorder?
Focus on detail of appearance - There is no actual distortion of appearance - People attend to physical attractiveness features - Miss the whole picture - Become engrossed in small flaws - Believe in an exaggerated importance of appearance
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What brain structures commonly display hyperactivity in body dysmorphic disorder?
Orbitofrontal cortex and caudate nucleus
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What are medications used to treat body dysmorphic disorder?
SSRIs
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What does cognitive therapy look like for people who have body dysmorphic disorder?
- Challenge beliefs about bodily imperfections | - Challenge beliefs about standards of beauty
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What is hoarding disorder?
Cannot part or form an attachment with acquired objects that are usually worthless
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What percentage of people are unaware that they have hoarding disorder?
66%
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What percentage of people with hoarding disorder hoard animals and how does this affect the animals?
33% - they receive poor care and often dirty living areas with poop (69% of cases have animal feces left around the living space
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What does hoarding disorder usually result in for living conditions?
The accumulation of a large number of possessions that clutter active living spaces of the home or workplace of the extent that their intended use is compromised unless others intervene
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What are vulnerability factors of hoarding disorder?
- Genetic influences - Family history - Traumatic life events - Early experiences
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What are the information processing problems people with hoarding disorder have?
- Attention - Memory - Executive functioning
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What is the evolutionary perspective of hoarding disorder?
- The adaptive need to stockpile resources
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What are the cognitive behavioral factors of hoarding disorder?
- Poor organizational ability - Unusual beliefs about possessions - Avoidance behaviors
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What percentage of women have hoarding disorder?
76%
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What percentage of people with hoarding disorder are 60 and older
46%
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What is the goal of exposure with response prevention?
To gradually expose patients to their obsessions in a safe and controlled environment. Therapy will then become more intensive as patients demonstrate an ability to handle their obsessions.
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What is trichotillomania?
Hair pulling disorder: A compulsive desire to pull out one's hair
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What is excoriation?
Skin picking disorder

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