The movie‚ “As Good as It Gets‚” describes a person who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD is an anxiety disorder and it contains a group of conditions that share similar characteristics. Anxiety disorders all typically become aroused when a person experiences apprehension over an anticipated problem. There are physical‚ cognitive‚ and emotional symptoms which are elicited from the apprehension. Physical symptoms may include increased heart rate‚ accelerated respiration‚ sweating
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Jessica Hirsch GSW 1100 Dr. Burroughs March 29‚ 2011 Animal Hoarding How would you feel if you saw an animal that is boney and sick? For people that love animals it is hard to picture an animal that is sick‚ covered in fleas or ticks‚ cuts‚ and is just boney. Animal hoarding is an unrecognized problem in many communities. By the time people notice it usually too late to help the animals that are involved in the hoarding. Hoarding is considered a type of animal abuse and can be punishable by
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mode. Benjy was very sensitive to changes in others around him‚ such as when Caddy wore perfume and understood that she lost her virginity; these revelations upset Benjy greatly as he would howl and moan in sadness. Being diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder‚ I have taken a liking to things being in a particular order‚ and when my order is obstructed I tend to become very irritated. As I have grown up‚ I have learned to deal with my issues and have been able to tackle them before they got the
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children with disabilities‚ including DS‚ Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)‚ and Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS). Studies show that children with DS show similar mental age-related changes in compulsive/repetitive behavior as a comparison group without DS (source 1). Younger children with and without DS exhibit more compulsive behaviors than older children (source 1). Also‚ children with DS display the same number of repetitive‚ ritualistic‚ and “Just Right” behaviors that are considered typical in early development
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder vs. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder In this essay there will be comparisons and contrasts between the Generalized Anxiety Disorder and the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. A few comparisons are that both disorders can cause physical and mental symptoms such as restlessness‚ irritability‚ poor concentration‚ worrying‚ and can effect anyone. A few contrasts are that GAD is usually triggered by nothing specific‚ while OCD is triggered by one or a few specific things‚ and OCD
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outcomes and therefore is reinforced. The behavioural approach also suggests that compulsive rituals are learned due to a link between the anxiety associated obsession and the reduction of that anxiety. As a result ritualistic behaviour is reinforced and a person may link the act they have performed with changing the fearful situation which causes an accidental association to be formed which has the potential to become compulsive when an individual faces thoughts or situations which provoke anxiety. Another
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Elizabeth Sunderland 4-9-12 Psy 531 Pre Practicum Weekly Topic: Hoarding Although compulsive hoarding seems to be a severe mental health disorder‚ it is currently not categorized as a psychiatric disorder and not listed in the DSM-IV. In the DSM-IV however‚ one of the 8 criteria for Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder is ‘the inability to discard worn-out or worthless objects even when they have no sentimental value’. There is currently a proposed revision for Hoarding in the DSM-V
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CASE STUDY #1 1. Provisional Diagnosis: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 2. Rationale for the diagnosis: A. Presence of obsession‚ compulsion‚ or both: Obsession: the persistent thoughts of the client and attempts to ignore‚ suppress or neutralize these thoughts‚ impulses‚ or images ---- he feels some foods contain poisonous germs and diseases‚ any personal hygiene would interfere with his studying‚ he believes that the special rituals before eating‚ such as loud hissing‚ coughing‚ would allow the
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over rule ones’ life‚ to the extent they cannot live a casual or satisfactory life. Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorder is one of many personality disorders that outweighs ‘normal’ personality traits and cause detrimental effects on individuals who suffer from the personality disorder‚ but are still capable of living a ‘successful’ life‚ which sounds completely paradoxical. OCPD (Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorder) stems during early adolescence and is easily misdiagnosed‚ which also results
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individuals have absent/delusional beliefs‚ those are when the individual is convinced that something bad will definitely happen if they do not perform the rituals (American Psychiatric Association 3). Another primary and very common symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder is anxiety. As mentioned before‚ there are very close relations between the two disorders. Anxiety can be triggered by the obsessions and compulsions
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