Download O.C.D. (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

Cristina Covarrubias (#10)
Evelyn Salazar (#9)
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Definition
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Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder is the mental
disorder of striving for too
much success. Perfection
is the ultimate goal of the
OCD person, and failure is
seen as earth shattering.
OCD is the disorder that,
on the outside, seems
useful. A drive to succeed
is very appealing, but
OCD pushes it past the line
of success and into the
realm of isolation, anxiety
and depression.
Symptoms
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Maintain "efficiency," but instead only succeed
in making the task more difficult.
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Puts work before personal relationships or
leisure time.
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Hoarding with no traceable cause or sentiment
was at one time thought to be a key symptom.
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Controlling, and has a feeling of superior
competence comparing him or herself to others.
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He or she will entrust tasks to others only
under extreme caution, and have strict
instructions as to how they are to be carried out.
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Save money and be stringy.
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General rigidity and stubbornness
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Justify actions instead of admitting any sort of
problem, because in the person's mind he or she
is right.
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Jane was a 31-year-old teacher who lived with her husband in
Cambridgeshire.
Had obsessive-compulsive disorder for six years. It had developed
suddenly, rapidly intensifying to a point where it devastated both her
and her husband's life.
She had failed to respond to medication, hypnotherapy or protracted
individual and group psychotherapy.
'I have always been a worrier, but it did not start to ruin my life until
seven years ago.
'The first attack occurred during a children's' church service.
I joked to Joe about one of the children present. It was not nasty, but it
started to play on my mind.
I became anxious that the child's parents sitting nearby had heard me
and misinterpreted it.
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My thoughts rapidly expanded. The parents would be annoyed and report
me. I would be reprimanded and dismissed from the school. The story
would be in national newspapers. I might be sent to prison.
From then on I monitored my speech carefully, being unable to converse
unless I was at home with the windows shut.
My problems started with panic leading to avoidance, checking and rituals,
to stop the situation recurring.
'I became obsessed with dirt and cleanliness. I -washed my hands 100
times a day as indicated by my bleeding knuckles.
I washed 40 tea towels at a time, I thought lice were living on my body,
and itching reinforced my fear.
I examined the bed at night, making sure there' were no insects.
I wanted to wash anything I touched.
According to cognitive-behavioral theories of OCD, if you are vulnerable
to OCD you are unable to ignore these thoughts. In addition, you may feel
that you should be able to control these thoughts and that these thoughts
are dangerous. Being trapped in this cycle can make it difficult -– if not
impossible -– to focus on anything else besides the distressing thoughts
and an obsession is born. Compulsions such as hand-washing may be a
learned process.
-For example:
In response to feeling contamination, you might wash your hands. This
reduces your anxiety which feels good and in turn reinforces the handwashing behavior.
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According to the Biological theory, OCD causes have focused on a circuit
in the brain which regulates primitive aspects of our behavior such as
aggression, sexuality, and bodily excretions. It has been suggested that if
you have OCD, your brain has difficulty turning off or ignoring impulses
from this circuit. This, in turn, causes repetitive behaviors called
compulsions and/or uncontrollable thoughts called obsessions.
-For example:
Your brain may have trouble turning off thoughts of contamination after
leaving the restroom, leading you to wash your hands again and again.
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Psychodynamic theories of OCD stress that obsessions and
compulsions are signs of unconscious conflict that you might be
trying to suppress, resolve or cope with. These conflicts arise when
an unconscious wish is at odds with socially acceptable behavior.
It has been suggested that when these conflicts are extremely
repulsive or distressing, you can only deal with them indirectly by
transferring the conflict to something more manageable such as
hand-washing, checking or ordering.
The two main treatments for obsessive-compulsive
disorder are:
 Psychotherapy
 Medications
-Antidepressants:
-Prozac
-Zoloft
 Which option is best for you depends on your personal
situation and preferences. Often, treatment is most
effective with a combination of medications and
psychotherapy.
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Leonardo DiCaprio: DiCaprio has admitted to struggling
with OCD, citing gum stains on the sidewalk and doorways as
triggers.
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David Beckham: Beckham explains, ''I've got this obsessive
compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a
straight line or everything has to be in pairs.
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Donald Trump - Has a germ phobia that makes him afraid
to shake hands. He confesses he has borderline obsessive
compulsive disorder and is terrified of germs. The star refuses
to touch the ground floor button of a lift and avoids shaking
hands with people - especially teachers.
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About 2% of the U.S. population has OCD in a given year.
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OCD cost the U.S. $8.4 billion in 1990 in social and
economic losses, nearly 6% of the total mental health bill of
$148 billion
 http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/obsessive-
compulsivedisorder/DS00189/DSECTION=treatments-anddrugs
 http://ocd.about.com/od/causes/a/Causes_OCD.htm
 http://www.brainphysics.com/oc-personality.php
 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13
71281/pdf/brjgenprac00080-0038.pdf
 http://www.disabledworld.com/artman/publish/famous-ocd.shtml