Compulsive Disorder Case Study Summary

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.

Jacob Perez is a six-year-old Hispanic/Latino male who attended the intake assessment with his mother. Gaston Family Health Services referred Jacob to children’s Advocacy Network due to presenting concerns with disruptive behavior at home. Jacob was not reported to have previous involvement in therapeutic services; however, there is a diagnosis of ADHD previously made by the client’s pediatrician. Jacob has also been prescribed Focalin 10 ml. and Quillivant to which mother reports Jacob is being compliant. Mother reports Jacob displays disruptive behavior since age two years old, three times per week, lasting about 10 minutes in duration. Mother described Jacob’s symptoms manifest as “yelling” “mockery” “anger outburst” “defiant” “crying

This article highlights the experience of a 46 year old woman with obsessive compulsive disorder, and how adding cognitive behavioral therapy to her treatment benefits her. Obsessive compulsive disorder is a disorder which affects approximately 2 to 3 percent of the population (Salkovskis, 2007) (Taylor & Reeder, 2015). Cognitive behavioral therapy is a method of treatment recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, with the results proving to be effective ( Abramowitz, Foa, & Franklin, 2003; Anderson & Rees, 2007; Department of Health, 2001; NICE, 2006; Storch et al., 2008) (Taylor & Reeder, 2015). Likewise, group cognitive behavioral therapy is a proven effective treatment for OCD, with similar results shown from individual cognitive behavioral therapy (Hougaard, 2009) (Anderson & Rees, 2007) (Taylor & Reeder, 2015).

Obsessive compulsion disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder described by irrational thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive tasks (compulsions) (Obsessive Compulsion Disorder, 2013). When a person has obsessive-compulsive disorder, they may realize that their obsessions aren't accurate, and they may try to overlook them but that only increases their suffering and worry. Eventually, you feel driven to perform compulsive acts to ease your stressful feelings. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is often driven by a reason, cause, or fear for example, a fear of germs. To calm the feeling of this fear, a person may compulsively wash their hands until they're sore and chapped. Despite their efforts, thoughts of obsessive-compulsive behavior keep coming back. This leads to more ritualistic behavior and a brutal cycle of obsessive-compulsive disorder. OCD is the fourth most common mental disorder, and is diagnosed nearly as often as asthma and diabetes (Who We Are, 2012). In the United States, one in 50 adults suffers from OCD. Obsessive compulsive disorder affects children, adolescents, and adults. About one third to one half of adults with OCD report a childhood onset of the disorder, they felt these anxieties but were not diagnosed or felt no need to be diagnosed until the compulsions over whelmed them (Who We Are, 2012). The phrase obsessive compulsive has been used to describe excessively meticulous, perfectionistic, absorbed, or otherwise fixated person. While

As a kid, I detested swimming. Not because I didn’t know how to swim or had a near-drowning experience, though. Instead, I had a phobia that vicious sharks were in the pool with me, waiting for a chance to sink their razor-sharp teeth into me and drag me to the bottom of the deep end to drown. Every time I went into a pool, whether it was three feet deep or twelve, these same violent imaginings ran through my mind, antagonizing me. I even saw the sharp-toothed monsters in my dreams at night. No matter how many times I was told that my irrational fear was exactly that- irrational, I could not shake these ideas from my head. I often experienced many different bizarre beliefs like my shark phobia. I have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. It was unusual for a kid to have this type of thought process, so I seldom talked to any of my peers, leaving me with few friends. Due to its detrimental effects on a person’s mental health, OCD can lead to a life of isolation.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a sometimes disabling problem that catches people in endless cycles of redundant thoughts and behaviors. People with OCD have haunting thoughts or fears that continue repeating over and over in their mind that they can't control. The anxiety created by these thoughts lead to an urgent need to perform certain things or routines. People usually repeat these rituals in an attempt to stop the obsessive thoughts and make them go away. The thoughts or fears may go away momentarily but before long the thoughts will come back. In some cases, an obsession can get so bad as to take up hours of a persons life a day. An obsession can build until it will start to interfere with a persons normal activities. Most people with obsessive-compulsive disorder recognize that their disorder is odd and excessive,

Abramowitz, J. S., Taylor, S., & McKay, D. (2009). Obsessive-compulsive disorder. The Lancet, 374(9688), 491-9. Retrieved from https://zeus.tarleton.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/199044004?accountid=7078

OCD cannot be self-diagnosed and requires a medical diagnosis. OCD is difficult to diagnose at times because the symptoms of OCD can be similar to personality disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, and other mental illnesses. Tests to diagnose OCD include physical exams, lab tests, and psychological evaluations. Physical exams rule out other problems that could be causing your symptoms and to check for any related complications. Lab tests include a complete blood count, screening for alcohol and drugs, and check your thyroid functions. In psychological evaluations a doctor or mental health provider asks about the person’s thoughts, feelings, symptoms, behavior patterns. The doctor might also talk to their family and friends to find out more information. For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder to be diagnosed it must meet a certain criteria. Some of the criteria is that they must have obsessions or compulsions or both, or, the obsessions or compulsions are significantly time consuming and interfere with their daily routine, work, or social functioning. Obsession criteria is recurring unwelcome thoughts and impulses are causing distress, and, trying to suppress their impulses with compulsive behavior. Compulsive criteria is repeating behaviors that they feel driven to do, or trying to get rid of one obsession with another though or action. After a doctor or mental health provider has a diagnosis they define the type of OCD they

A Compulsive Behavior is a type of disorder where someone is performing an act persistently and repetitively without it necessarily leading to an actual reward or pleasure.Which for example would be Alcoholism a condition that is found everywhere. Alcoholism is one form of an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or behavior; others might be gluttony described as compulsive eating, checking house locks too many times.

Important criteria for the diagnosis are that the person has an internal impulse to think or to do something even though they know the thoughts or acts do not make sense and, therefore, that they offer resistance to the impulse” (Hofer et al.,

After the birth of Anna, Ada had a serious illness which took months to cure. Several years later Ada's mother hired a man named William Benjamin Carpenter to tutor Ada's children and to act as a 'moral' instructor for Ada. He then fell in love and while he tried to deny that he would never do anything inappropriate due to his marriage, it became clear that he was trying to start an affair with Ada and she promptly had him

Obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by uncontrollable, unwanted thoughts and repetitive, ritualized behaviors you feel compelled to perform. For example, if you have parked your car in the garage without locking it, the next time you tend to be more cautious and ensure that you lock it. If the same thought is obsessed in your mind and recurs again and again it affects your thinking pattern and behavior. People affected of OCD are filled with both obsessions and compulsions. At times, they are deeply ashamed to fulfill their compulsions. Perhaps, this shameful feeling can complicate their problems. OCD is caused as a result of abnormal brain activity. By taking Valium, one can stop the abnormal activity that affects the brain thereby

1. Nikki’s compulsive spending disorder causes stress and problems in her marriage because she is being deceitful. She is spending money that her family can’t afford to spend. In addition, the money she did spend could have been used for her children’s education or even on family activities.

All people have negative thoughts, but the real problem with this disease is what to do with them. Healthy people do not pay attention to these thoughts, but those with obsessive compulsive disorder take them seriously and start thinking that something might be wrong with them. The best treatment strategy is confrontation strategy, i.e. when negative thoughts appear Clare needs:

Obsessive-compulsive disorder, commonly known as OCD, is a type of anxiety disorder and was one of the three original neuroses as defined by Freud. It is characterized by "recurrent, persistent, unwanted, and unpleasant thoughts (obsessions) or repetitive, purposeful ritualistic behaviors that the person feels driven to perform (compulsions)." (1) The prime feature that differentiates OCD from other obsessive or compulsive disorders is that the sufferer understands the irrationality or excess of the obsessions and compulsions, but is unable to stop them. What differentiates people with OCD from other usually healthy people with milder forms of obsession and compulsion is the fact that the obsessions