Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders Flashcards

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is the devastating culmination of the anxiety disorders. It is not common for someone this disorder to experience severe generalized anxiety, recurrent panic attacks, debilitating avoidance, and major depression.

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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These are intrusive and mostly nonsensical thoughts, images, or urges that the individual tries to resist or eliminate

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Obsessions

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These are thoughts or actions used to suppress the obsessions and provide relief

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Compulsions

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Types of Obsessions and Compulsions: (4)

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Symmetry
Forbidden thoughts or actions
Cleaning or Contamination
Hoarding

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Refers to keeping things in perfect order or doing something in a specific way

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Symmetry

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Involuntary movement (sudden jerking of limbs)

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Tic disorder

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More complex tics with involuntary vocalizations

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Tourette’s disorder

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Its center is a preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance by someone who actually looks normal

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder has been referred to as “____”

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imagined ugliness

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is a mental health condition that causes an individual to experience physical bodily symptoms in response to psychological distress.

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Somatoform Disorder

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For decades, BDD, previously known as “____” (fear of ugliness) was thought to represent a psychotic delusional state because the affected individuals were unable to realize that their ideas were irrational.

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dysmorphobia

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Treatments for Body dysmorphic disorder (2)

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Drugs that block the re-uptake of serotonin
Exposure and response prevention

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Are characterized by the failure or inability to care for the animals or provide suitable living quarters which results in threats to health and safety due to unsanitary conditions associated with accumulated animal waste

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Animal hoarders

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The urge to pull one’s own hair from anywhere on the body including, scalp, eyebrows, and arms. This behavior results in noticeable hair loss, distress, and significant social impairments

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Trichotillomania (Hair Pulling Disorder)

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The repetitive and compulsive picking of the skin leading to tissue damage.

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Excoriation (Skin Picking Disorder)

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Psychological Treatments for Trichotillomania and Excoriation (2)

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Habit-reversal training
Drug treatments

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Patients are carefully taught to be more aware of their repetitive behavior, particularly as it is just about to begin and to then substitute a different behavior

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Habit-reversal training