Trichotillomania

Checking to make sure the stove is turned off, or double checking that the car is locked are all normal things. But a person with obsessive compulsive disorder may participate in these same actions, the only difference is it is much more intense. According to the National Institute of Mental Health those who have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have an impulse to check things multiple times, have rituals, thoughts and routines that they repeat over and over (National Institute of Health, 2013)

As Good as It Gets In the movie As Good as It Gets Jack Nicholson's character, Melvin Udall, suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, known as OCD for short, is a type of anxiety disorder. In this movie, Melvin displayed many compulsions. When he comes back to his apartment he locks his door 5 times and turns on and off the lights 5 times. He also washes his hands with 2 new bars of soap each time he washes his hands. When he walks, he avoids stepping on any

violence or physical altercations as those are growing phases in which hair normally does not fall out. Otherwise hair loss can also portray stress and anxiety of the victim or suspect that can depict psychotics or mental history. As a person with trichotillomania will often pluck out their own hair which suggests a history of emotional stress or mental problems (2). Thus, allowing a forensic investigator to shorten the list of possible suspects based on physical properties making hair a rather resource

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM) provides standard criteria for diagnosing mental disorders. It serves numerous purposes and delineates a common language for researchers, clinicians, educators and students. The APA released the fifth edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical manual of mental disorders in May 2013 after 12 years of research involving a diverse range of 400 experts from 12 countries worldwide (Kuhl, Kupfer, & Reiner, 2013). While the release of the

Obsessive compulsive disorder is a disease that many people know of, but few people know about. Many people associate repeated washing of hands, or flicking of switches, and even cleanliness with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), however there are many more symptoms, and there are also explanations for those symptoms. In this paper, I will describe what obsessive compulsive disorder is, explain some of the effects of it, and explain why it happens. I will also attempt to prove that while medication

desire or a control behavior problem.” Types of Self injury: Self-injury includes the following: cutting, banging or punching, scratching the skin, pinching skin, impact with objects, ripping in the skin (possibly to the point of bleeding) and trichotillomania (hair pulling, and sometimes consuming the hair), carving in the skin, burning, and rubbing objects into their skin. Although many people look at self injury as a

The choice to leave the house everyday bare-faced or cake-faced is a personal decision many women confront. In recent years, some women have embraced the bare-faced, no makeup lifestyle, uploading selfies appropriately captioned #NoMakeup. Fittingly, this trend is called the no makeup movement. Two writers, Lux Alptraum and Libby Purves, share their opinion on this topic. Libby Purves writes for the tabloid newspaper, Daily Mail, in an online article titled “Time to reject the tyranny of make-up

plan it and sometimes emotions play a part in why people commit suicide. Some people wake up one day and have suicidal thoughts and act on them which are impulsive actions. Impulsive behaviors can be damaging like gambling, impulse buying, and trichotillomania which is when people pull out their hair (Salomon, 2007). A example of someone acting on their impulsive thoughts is when someones day might be going awful and they think it is the end of the world when it really is not so the only way they think

According to the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder foundation ( (International OCD Foundation, 2016), “OCD is a medical brain disorder that causes problems in information processing.” They compare OCD to a brain spasm; the brain freezes on a certain thought and cannot move forward. The brain is incapable of dealing with thoughts of worry or doubt. This causes many side effects that can clearly distinguish a person as OCD. Obsessive compulsive disorder is a disease that many people know of, but few people

As a child, the zoo was one of my favorite places to be. The ability to see wild animals in my local area is so convenient for me, but not so convenient for the animals living there. My opinion on zoos have most definitely changed when I put myself in the position of these animals in captivity. Animals are constantly going through pain and suffering by being behind bars, being separated from their family and not being able to live how they would in the wild. They are taken miles away from their natural