Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder across Developmental Trajectory: Cognitive Processing of Threat in Children‚ Adolescents‚ and Adults Everybody experiences intrusive thoughts once in a while‚ yet we think nothing of it most of the time. However‚ for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder‚ such thoughts occur frequently‚ and they are likely to be interpreted with more emotional intensity‚ and are highly uncontrollable. Obsessions signify the extreme end on a continuum of normal‚ unwanted‚ intrusive
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Compulsive Gambling and It’s Cost to the Economy More than 5 million Americans are pathological‚ compulsive and problem gamblers‚ and another 15 million are at risk of becoming just like them. A common definition of problem gambling is: a progressive disorder characterized by a continuous or periodic loss of control over gambling and irrational thinking and behavior despite the consequences. When gambling interferes with any one’s life‚ it can be categorize as an addiction or disease‚ just
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04/13/2011 Cause and Effect Health Risk When Overeating Overeating is a constant problem that many people have today. There are several reasons why people choose to overeat. Sometimes people have emotional and mental problems that they do not know how to deal with‚ and they feel a comfort in food. (Compound sentence)A very frequent cause is that people tend to overeat in social events or overeat when they are celebrating holidays. Of course
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the material focus of society in general‚ encourages people to accumulate possessions now and worry about financial responsibility later. Purchasing has been made easier with the availability of on-line shopping and television warning signs of compulsive shopping * Shopping or spending money as result of feeling disappointed‚ angry‚ or scared * Shopping or spending habits causing emotional distress in one’s life * Having arguments with others about one’s shopping or spending habits
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Mr. Robert Jakubovic English Composition 1001-40 13 February 2012 The Compulsive shopper and The Thrifty Shopper Have you ever met someone that was born during the Great Depression‚ or someone born during the Baby Boomer years? They are bound to have different spending habits. I’m a product of the Baby Boomer Generation. A time when things were plentiful; my mother was born during the Great Depression Generation when things were not so plentiful. I love to shop and spend money; my method of
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Evynn McGinn Star Gibson Psychology 17 November 2013 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder It is normal to go back and make sure you turned the curling iron off‚ or double check the doors to make sure they’re locked. But when a person suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder‚ when you think you forget these regular‚ simple tasks it can run your whole day. Upon picking this topic and taking this class‚ I didn’t know about any of the diseases. OCD stuck out to me the most‚ and so I felt like it would
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ability to distinguish between a habit‚ and an obsession. Most importantly‚ however‚ thought it would be interesting to write a paper on something I did not already know that much about so that it would keep my interest. 2 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is defined as an anxiety disorder where a person has recurrent unwanted ideas or impulses (called obsessions) and an urge or compulsion to do something to relieve the discomfort caused by the obsession (Mental Health Network‚ 2000)
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Compulsive hoarding is the impulse to hold onto unnecessary items due to the idea that they hold some sort of emotional value. It is a severe problem that affects the United States and it can lead people to awful and unfortunate situations such as illness and even homelessness. Studies have shown that one in four people are hoarders with the leading causes being depression or loss of a loved one. It is also apparent that a large amount of the homeless population was evicted from their housing due
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Is Overeating An Addictive Behaviour? Comparing Overeating And Substance Abuse Across Addiction Models. Abstract Both overeating and under eating have been loosely defined in academic journals as addiction disorders‚ much like drug dependence is widely recognized as today. Although many addictions are habitual‚ some may have a deeper reasoning behind them. Both food and drugs have intense reinforcing and rewarding effects on some subjects. Addiction is defined in Webster’s as the
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Introduction Many people do not know what Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is. In fact‚ OCD is an anxiety disorder. We should know about the obsession and compulsion. To many patients‚ they are obsessive to some uncontrollable and unwanted thoughts or distress images. They might repeat their behaviors compulsively in order to neutralize the obsessive thoughts or to prevent some anxious events. (Butcher et al.‚ 2009) The influence of OCD on a person’s
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