OCD

Question 1

What is OCD?

Answer 1

obsessive compulsive disorder

Question 2

What is the diagnostic criteria for OCD?

Answer 2

obsessions and compulsions, time consuming, impairs functioning, not due to medical condition or substance abuse

Question 3

What is an obsession?

Answer 3

recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges or images that can cause anxiety

Question 4

Examples of obsessions

Answer 4

contamination, injury, pathological doubt, symmetry, religious and unacceptable sex

Question 5

What is a compulsion?

Answer 5

repetitive behaviours or mental acts that the individual feels compelled to do in response to an obsession

Question 6

What is the onset for OCD?

Answer 6

late adolescence to early adulthood

Question 7

What is the time course for OCD?

Answer 7

increases gradually and becomes chronic if untreated

Question 8

What is the gender difference in OCD?

Answer 8

women have more cleaning and washing rituals

Question 9

What percentage of the population has OCD?

Answer 9

1-2%

Question 10

What percentage of diagnoses have other psychological conditions?

Answer 10

50%

Question 11

What are the biological causes of OCD?

Answer 11

gene mutations, serotonin levels

Question 12

What are the genetic factors with OCD?

Answer 12

27-47%

Question 13

What are the environmental causes of OCD?

Answer 13

life stressors, the pandemic

Question 14

What are the cognitive causes with OCD?

Answer 14

misinterpretation of significance of intrusions

Question 15

Treatment of OCD

Answer 15

CBT with ERP

Question 16

What is the process of ERP?

Answer 16

trigger is encountered, provokes an obsessive thought, asked to think about possible consequences