Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Case Study

London will be treated using the Cognitive Behavioral approach as it is recommended for children by the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (Freeman et al., 2007). Heavy emphasis will be placed on the inclusion of London’s mother and grandmother in and out of therapy sessions. Over the course of treatment, London will engage in relaxation techniques, rational emotive therapy, and exposure and ritual prevention therapy.

The following is an overview about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), one of the most difficult psychiatric illness to be understood. The way of doing certain behaviors, thoughts or routines repeatedly is the essential condition of a person with OCD. In general, it is known and described by someone who is extremely perfectionist and meticulous. Unfortunately, they do realize those habits and be able to stop doing it. Common behaviors are such as checking locks, doors, stove bottoms, and lights, hand washing, counting things, or having recurrent intrusive thoughts of hurting oneself or somebody else.

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

Sonya is likely experiencing obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It is the disorder that exhibits recurrent obsessions and/or compulsions (Nevid pg. 189). Obsessions are recurrent and intrusive thoughts (189). In this case study,Sonya admitted that she was a lifelong worrier. She also states that she repeatedly in a state of anxiousness or worriness (frets) about her family’s health, her future, and finances ( 189). Compulsions are repetitive behaviors that the person feels compelled to perform ( 189). Sonya has exhibit some compulsions in her perfectionistic tendencies. In Sonya childhood, she reviewed her homework assignments multiple times for “careless mistakes”. She even stated that she spent three times as long on homework than other children. In high school, she was very preoccupied in her appearance. She would iron her clothes the night before class. The next morning, she would check for wrinkles. If she find a wrinkle, she would iron her clothes again. Perfectionist’s beliefs involves exaggerating the consequences of submitting less than perfect work. They might feel compelled to redo their works until every detail is flawless (190). For example, Sonya states that

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder that is the fourth most common mental illness in the U.S. (8). OCD affects five million Americans, or one in five people (3). This is a serious mental disorder that causes people to think and act certain things repetitively in order to calm the anxiety produced by a certain fear. Unlike compulsive drinking or gambling, OCD compulsions do not give the person pleasure; rather, the rituals are performed to obtain relief from the discomfort caused by obsessions (2). OCD is more common than schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or panic disorder, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (6). This disorder can be therapeutically treated, but not cured.

Current diagnostic criteria for SaraBeth’s disorders is better explained by criterion A – D in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and criterion A – E in Anxiety Disorder due to another medical condition. OCD criteria A requires that the individual have the presence of obsession and/or compulsions. SaraBeth reports obsessions of recurrent and persistent thoughts about harm coming to her parents and although she had attempted to ignore these thoughts she continues with performing her compulsions. SaraBeth’s compulsions are evident by reported repetitive behaviors of performing ritual prayers, persistent checking on the iron and stove and although SaraBeth can admit that her fear is unrealistic, she continues the compulsions in order to feel better or to relieve oneself. Criteria B requires that the obsessions and/or compulsions be time-consuming (more than one hour) or cause clinically significant distress or impairments in important areas of function. SaraBeth has stated that can spend three to four hours during the day engaged in checking behaviors. Criteria C entails that the obsessions-compulsive symptoms are not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance or another medical condition. SaraBeth currently has no indication of a medical condition or substance use prior to the first onset of her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Criteria D requires that the disturbance not better explained by the symptoms of another medical condition. Currently there is no evidence

The client states she is having recurrent and persistent thoughts that are intrusive and unwanted. However, in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), these thoughts meet the definition of an obsession. In addition, most recurrent thoughts in OCD are not linked to a traumatic event. Also, compulsions are present in OCD, and are not related to

My patient is Mara Wilson. She is best known for starring in the movies Matilda, Mrs. Doubtfire, and A Simple Wish .and she has told me that she got diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder when she was twelve. We have had discussions and we mainly focused on her acting career. She has told me previously that she struggled with the fact of her acting career that the audience liked the people she acted as on a film better than her personal self. So, from that she

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a two part disorder where the individual experiences both obsessions and compulsions. The first component relates very closely to everyday thoughts that seem to be countless and never ending. When an individual experiences the same thought over and over again all day long these are known as obsessions, because the individual cannot control the thought or keep it from occurring. The second component in OCD is based off of the individual’s actual action. The actions directly related to the obsessions are called compulsions. These are actions that cannot be controlled and seem to occur over and over again throughout ones day. Now that we know the basics about OCD we can further explore Jakes story and how his OCD

A term which is not only being misused nowadays, but also thrown around very casually in everyday conversation : Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This disorder has been broken down into two forms : Obsessions and Compulsions. Obsessions are the recurrent thoughts that cause disturbance to the victim's thought process. On the other hand, compulsions are the uncontrollable desires to perform certain functions. By performing these tasks, the victim is able to get rid of the thought that mentally disturbing.“A mental disorder is a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning,” (The New Definition of a Mental Disorder) according to the DSM-V. An example of such a disorder is O.C.D. or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Victims of this disorder are trapped in cycles of unfavorable thoughts and have impulsive and involuntary desires to perform series of actions. This is done to break a chain of disturbing thoughts. After reading this article, I infer that mental disorders are avoidance mechanisms, a way to escape from life’s issues.

According to Gorenstein and Comer (2015) the following is a list of the DSM criteria for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder:

Obsessions are unwanted ideas or impulses that repeatedly well up in the mind of a person with OCD. These are thoughts and ideas that the sufferer cannot stop thinking about. A sufferer will almost always obsess over something which he or she is most afraid of. Common ideas include persistent fears that harm may come to self or a loved one, an unreasonable concern with becoming contaminated, or an excessive need to do things correctly or perfectly. Again and again, the individual experiences a disturbing thought, such as, "My hands may be contaminated -- I must wash them" or "I may have left the gas on" or "I am going to injure my child." These thoughts tend to be intrusive, unpleasant, and produce a high degree of anxiety. Sometimes the obsessions are of a violent or a sexual nature, or concern illness. People with OCD who obsess over hurting themselves or others are actually less likely to do so than the average person. Obsessions are typically automatic, frequent, distressing, and difficult to control or put an end to by themselves. With these reoccurring obsessions continuously being played in the sufferers mind, they start performing repetitive acts that reassure them that their hands aren’t dirty, or the gas for the stove is turned of. This response to their obsession is called a compulsion.

Imagine not being able to just pick up your keys, walk out of the house, lock the car and walk away, or quickly wash your hands. Something most people do without giving it another thought. My days were filled with checking, counting, washing for hours. By the end of the day I was physically and mentally exhausted.

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

Knowing what OCD is the first step in understanding the psychology of the disorder. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, “Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a common, chronic and long-lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions) that he or she feels the urge to repeat over and over” (NIMH). The obsessive part of OCD is intrusive, repetitive thoughts the cause anxiety, and the compulsion part is the need to perform an act or ritual repeatedly. The obsession causes anxiety and the compulsion relieves the anxiety.