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After the tenth anniversary of Lady Macbeth’s passing, a secret interview revealing her struggles with mental health has surfaced. Most people are familiar with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and in modern society the warped perception of what it really means to have OCD continues to undermine the severity of the disorder. OCD is recognizing as a chronic disorder where a person has uncontrollable obsession’s, reoccurring thoughts and compulsions. These compulsions are almost always the product of

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. London will be treated using the Cognitive Behavioral approach as it is recommended for children

Case Study #2: Movie 4 As Good As It Gets: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Introduction: Melvin Udall is a resourceful, bad-tempered, yet wealthy writer of romantic fiction suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder. Compulsively, he alienates and is rude to the vast majority of the people whom he interacts with. In addition, he goes through his everyday breakfast ritual of eating at the same restaurant, sitting at the same table, and bringing his own disposable utensils. Consequently

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder In my case history, Laura and Marna, are both suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder. Although they share identical feelings and motivations, the two friends exhibit very different symptoms considering they obsess over different issues resulting in entirely dissimilar compulsive behaviors. Both women having dealt with OCD their entire lives and remember even as a child having certain compulsions. Marna expresses her serious problems with selecting an outfit to

Experts agree that Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an extremely disabling illness.  People living with OCD live very frustrated and hindered lives. They feel trapped in an endless cycle of recurring thoughts and behaviors.  Many of these distressing thoughts are rooted in fear.  These fears lead the person to perform certain routines and/or rituals throughout their day.  These rituals and compulsions are performed in an attempt to stop the obsessive thoughts in hopes to make them go away. 

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is one of chronic and debilitating anxiety disorders. People suffering from this disorder often experience recurrent, persistent and unwanted thoughts, images and impulses also referred to as obsessions, and experience repetitive behaviors called compulsions. Example of these repetitive behaviors includes hand washing, checking, ordering, and mental acts such as praying, counting repetition of words silently among others. These thoughts and behaviors affect the

Elisa suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, a disorder in which repetitive, intrusive thoughts and ritualistic behaviors designed to fend off those thoughts interfere with an individual's functioning. Elisa started manifesting this disorder since she was very young, around the age of 7. She never minded the disorder, simply because she was getting so used to it that she mostly thought it was there because of her fear. While growing up though, this disorder started amplying itself and really

As Good As it Gets Essay By: Macy Kline I found two possible disorders in which Melvin Udall may suffer from. His constant need of organization and perfection lead me to believe that he has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD. In definition OCD is an anxiety disorder in which people have repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas or sensations that make them feel driven to do certain things. Due to Melvin’s lack of a filter on his thoughts and opinions towards others also shows some evidence of Tourette

Part A: Fact Sheet Definition: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, images, and sensations (obsessions) and engage in behaviours or mental acts in response to these thoughts or obsessions. Symtoms: fear of contamination repeated doubting focus on exactness and order fear of harming oneself or others often religious people have “immoral” thoughts that frighten them Common Compulsions: cleaning/washing checking ordering/arranging

Everything that I had felt in the past year summarized by three words, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. The psychiatrist seemed unperturbed as she told me, as though this was common. It felt comforting originally, knowing that I wasn’t the only one who’s felt this way, but that feeling swiftly turned into despondency. Those