Case Study Of A Compulsive Disorder

Ada is an educated and traditional woman for her time period. She was born with a silver spoon and she had no clue how to survive off of a farm. However throughout the novel we see her strength unfold when father passes away leaving her penniless and in charge of the farm. Instead of marrying a man to take over, her love for Inman, Rudy’s help, and her endurance allows Ada to learn and grow more and more independent. This demonstrates Ada's strength since she learned to accept the present. Even after Inman's death, she had to learn to live in his absence and accept

At the beginning, Ada is in the hospital after a surgery to fix her clubfoot, when she gets word that her Mother was killed in a bombing at a factory in London. While her brother, Jamie, is sad about their mother’s death, Ada doesn’t feel anything about it at all. For her mother had abused, and neglected her and Jamie when they lived with her.

Co-occurring disorders can be difficult to treat due to the complexity of symptoms. Both the mental health and substance abuse disorders have biological, psychological, and social components assessed throughout the treatment process. Co-occurring disorder individuals battle to maintain their sobriety as they need to find services for both mental health and support groups catering to their unique needs.

Since the beginnings of psychology the debate of nature verses nurture has been going on. Certain psychologists take the position of the nature perspective. They argue that people are born with predispositions towards certain personalities, traits and other characteristics that help shape them into the people that they become later in life. Meanwhile multiple other psychologists argue the nurture perspective. They believe that people are born as a blank slate and their experiences over the course of life help shape their personalities, traits, and other characteristics. One topic that can be argued from both perspectives is obsessive-compulsive disorder. People who develop Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder are influenced by their inherited

Obsessive-compulsive disorder, as defined by Psychology Today, is “an anxiety disorder in which people have undated and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations (obsessions), or behavior that make them feel driven to do something (compulsions).” OCD has implications on everyday life for people struggling with the disease, but specifically, how do OCD and organization (on a lesser scale) affect our memory system, or vice versa? And what implications does this have in our lives as students? What is the cognitive theory outlining OCD? As investigated in this paper, OCD ultimately reduces your confidence in your memory and links to impairments in nonverbal and spatial memory. However, organization on a lesser scale, where the obsession of it does not interfere with your normal routine as it does in OCD, can increase productivity and reduce distractions, thereby strengthening your memory around the material you’re studying.

The protagonist in the film As Good As It Gets, Melvin Udall is a successful romantic novelist who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. From the onset of the film, Melvin displays ritualistic behavior that aligns with the diagnostic criteria for OCD, specifically the presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both. This paper focuses on Melvin’s particular psychopathology, analyzing the character’s current symptoms and diagnoses, the etiology of the disorder, and the key elements of his treatment.

Bob displays many symptoms of being an obsessive compulsive disorder owner. At the very beginning of the movie Bob is repeating to himself that, "I feel good. I feel great. I feel wonderful" multiple times. Bob is also trying to leave his apartment but he cannot because he is scared of the outside, he paces back multiple times before leaving just his own apartment, to leave the apartment building Bob uses a tissue to touch the door knob and also uses a tissue to shake his psychiatrist's hand. These are great examples of obsessive compulsive disorder. Obsessive compulsive disorder has many symptoms and one of them is a fear of germs. Within just the first ten minutes of this movie you can tell he has obsessive compulsive disorder.

Provide a tentative diagnosis for each of the following case studies. Write at least one paragraph for each, justifying your answer in terms of the DSM-V criteria for that particular disorder. Remember, writing matters, as you will be judged on the quality of your communication as well as on the justification for the tentative diagnoses.

Always washing your hands? Or perhaps you are always counting things or checking things. Are these actions taking over your life or constantly occupying your mind? Perhaps you have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). It was once thought that OCD was rare; however, recently it has been found that 2-3% (or 7 million Americans) of people have OCD. People with OCD are usually diagnosed by between the ages of 20 and 30, and about 75% of those who will develop OCD will show symptoms by age 30. (1) This leads to a couple questions that need to be answered: What is OCD? What causes it, and what is the most effective treatment? These questions will be answered throughout the paper.

Imagine feeling like a slave in your own body. Being forced to do ridiculous rituals and having constant compulsions to do things that you know don’t make sense. This is what it is like to live with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). In the United States alone, over 2 million people suffer from OCD (Parks, 2011) but no one has found the cause of this disorder. It affects people of all races, genders and socioeconomic backgrounds (Parks, 2011). Since it’s discovery and modern conceptualization, there has been an ongoing debate whether OCD is caused by environmental factors or if it is inherited through genetics. However, since both sides of the debate raise a solid argument and there is not enough hard evidence, the source of the disorder

In Tina behaviors, it indicated that she has anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD). OCD has 2 parts, obsession and compulsions. Obsessions are thoughts, impulses, or images that persist and recur, so that they cannot be dismissed from the mind even though the individual attempts to do so (Halter & Vacarolis, 2014). With Tina, she has an obsession of negative and harmful thoughts would come to her daughter even thought she knows it is irrational but she cannot get those thoughts out of her head. Compulsions are ritualistic behaviors an individual feels driven to perform in an attempt to reduce anxiety or prevent an imagined calamity. Performing the compulsive can only reduce the anxiety only temporarlity, which makes patient with

I have always been fascinated with behavioral disorders, especially OCD. I learned about OCD a few years ago when I was reading a medical journal. At first, it seemed like something very odd. The idea that otherwise normal people can do such strange things, and not be able to control themselves was fascinating. I wanted to know more about this topic, which is why I chose to write my paper on it. I thought that by knowing more about the subject, I will be able to better understand how these people’s lives can be literally taken over by their constant worries and anxiety. Also, I think a lot of people exhibit these behaviors and aren’t even aware that they may have a severe problem, and more importantly, that they can be getting help to

For this assignment I interviewed a man named Bob (not his real name) and he suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). This interview took place over a couple of days so I could understand and see what he was telling me was true. Bob has three types of OCD and all three he stated led to his wife divorcing him. of the three he said that only two were that were devastating to his marriage to his wife Debbie (not her real name). For one he says he likes to have things in a certain order, such as he stated that everything he had in his living room had to meet his standard of satisfaction, such as the coffee table had to be set a certain way along with the end tables, as well as the lamps which had to face a certain direction. He reportedly stated

London, a 10 year old student, displays an inability to complete work and tasks in a timely manner at home and school. Her obsessive thoughts and compulsions have led to her ostracization in the classroom and a strained relationship with her mother. Due to her compulsion to repeat activities ten times and inability to control her thoughts, a diagnosis of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder was established.

This case study was particularly fascinating in following the life of Karen Rusa and her obsessive compulsion disorder. It is interesting to study her childhood, present life, on-set symptoms she was experiencing, and the treatment she underwent. Though Karen withstood various trials that her OCD and depression effected greatly, I believe she received the best treatment to help her recover.