OCD & PTSD

Question 1

OCD vs. PTSD

Answer 1

both used to belong to anxiety disorders, with the DSM 5 = new categories
both result from traumatic events/episodes
both share anxious distress as their core feature
symptoms, etiology & treatment is one way to differentiate them

Question 2

post traumatic stress disorder

Answer 2

to be diagnosed you must have been exposed to some kind of traumatic event that does not happen overnight and cannot occur simply to exposure
TRAUMATIC: involving actual/threatened death, serious injury, violation

Question 3

symptoms of PTSD

Answer 3

RE-EXPERIENCING
- hallucinations, recurrent dreams, flashbacks
- disconnected from reality, psychological/physiological distress if exposed to a trigger
NEGATIVE COGNITIONS/MOOD
- inability to recall specific details about the event, estrangement from others
- anhedonia, suicidal/worthlessness, fear, horror, anger, shame, guilt
AVOIDANCE/AROUSAL
- avoidance to things that may trigger thoughts, feelings etc. associated with it
- trouble sleeping, startle early, angry outbursts, reckless, self destructive, react excessively

Question 4

OCD

Answer 4

person must experience either compulsions or obsessions or both

Question 5

symptoms of OCD

Answer 5

OBSESSIONS “mental intruders”
- intrusive, unwanted, difficult to control, vocalize anxiety, feeling that it’s happening against your will, triggered out of the blue, socially unacceptable
COMPULSIONS
- attempts to control and relieve the obsessions, excessive in nature
- checking or cleaning

Question 6

OCD IV

Answer 6

DSM: obsessions cannot be excessive worries rooted in real life problems
person must realize that it is excessive, unreasonable and abnormal, rooted in their own mind

Question 7

other OCD related disorders

Answer 7

HOARDING DISORDER: persistent difficulty/distress discarding possessions due to perceived need
EXCORIATION: skin picking disorder
TRICHOTILLOMANIA: hair pulling disorder
BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER

Question 8

somatic symptom disorder

Answer 8

at least one chronic somatic symptom that involves preoccupation, excessive worry about an unexplained symptom

Question 9

illness anxiety disorder

Answer 9

anxiety over potential undiagnosed illness, impacting daily life, fear they will become sick

Question 10

problematizing SSD & IAD

Answer 10

depends only on psychiatrists judgement that worry/thoughts are “excessive”