Diagnosis - OCD (Obsessive compulsive disorder) Chief complaints • The patient came with complaints of excessive cleaning or hand washing. • Ordering and arranging things in a particular and perfect way. • Repeatedly checking on the bags‚ and checking repeatedly to see if door is locked etc... Associated complaints • Generalized weakness • Hamper in the day today life. Treatment Plan • Psychotherapy • Medication (Serotonin reuptake inhibitors- SRI’s) Obsessive compulsive disorder-(OCD) OCD
Premium Psychology Anxiety Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
Today I will be diagnosing my client with the following: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder‚ Bipolar I with Psychotic Features‚ Antisocial Personality Disorder. After this case was brought to my attention I scrutinized all of my clients actions. I diagnosed my client with Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder due to the following symptoms: repetitive behaviors‚ attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts‚ urges‚ or images with some other thought or action. My client went into this man’s room for seven nights
Premium Emotion Psychology Thought
As Good as it Gets and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Running head: AS GOOD AS IT GETS AND OCD As Good as it Gets and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Melvin Udall lives a very unhappy‚ isolated life as a writer. He spends most days indoors with the exception of his daily trip to his local restaurant‚ where he methodically performs a multitude of rituals before actually eating. He walks on the sidewalk so as to avoid stepping on cracks and brushing against other people. He wears gloves and wipes
Premium Anxiety
people deal with daily. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is one‚ if not the most unique disorder since no two people have it in the exact same way. In my opinion‚ the narrative entitled Opinionator by Beth Boyle Machlan is more effective in addressing the issue of OCD than Plague of Tics by David Sedaris because it shows it from a serious perspective rather than David Sedaris’s comedian-like narrative take on the issue. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted
Premium Anxiety Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor Anxiety disorders
Test Yourself CAMMER’S OCPD TEST Each statement below can be rated on a scale of 1 to 4 of how much you (and/or a loved one) feel the statement applies‚ where: 1= None or a little of the time 2= Some of the time 3= Good part of the time 4= Most or all of the time 1. I prefer things to be done my way. 2. I am critical of people who don’t live up to my standards or expectations. 3. I stick to my principles‚ no matter what. 4. I am upset by changes in the environment or the behavior
Premium Task Psychology Morality
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
Premium Schizophrenia Bipolar disorder Mental disorder
Men vividly illustrated how a mental disorder can interfere with everyday life (Bailey‚ Griffin‚ Rapke‚ Scott‚ Starkey‚ & Scott‚ 2003). Roy Waller‚ played by Nicholas Cage‚ is smart‚ scrupulous and straight forward. Living alone‚ he is acutely aware of his mental illnesses (Bailey‚ Griffin‚ Rapke‚ Scott‚ Starkey‚ & Scott‚ 2003). He lives his life by depending on an illegally obtained medication (Bailey‚ Griffin‚ Rapke‚ Scott‚ Starkey‚ & Scott‚ 2003).
Premium Psychology Nursing Nurse
Steve Jobs: Genius or Just Obsessive Compulsive? It is rumored that Steve Jobs‚ the developer of Apple Electronics‚ suffered from the mental disease: OCPD. Jobs presented many symptoms of OCPD or Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder. He was considered a creative genius‚ but in order to reach that position he ruined his family relationships‚ his health‚ and even his happiness. OCPD is very similar to OCD‚ but there are slight differences. OCD causes people’s brains to send unwanted
Premium Psychology Mental disorder Body dysmorphic disorder
Compulsive Hoarding – Making A Concerted Effort Towards Therapy Hoarding: What Causes Hoarding? Compulsive hoarding starts with collecting one‚ then another and then yet another item in our daily lives that keeps building up into a pile. Doing away with them‚ causes any amount of stress in a person who perceives giving away things as a threat. Although it is not associated with any other neurological disorder like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder‚ or Depression or any other mental disease or brain
Premium Compulsive hoarding
New york college-empire state college OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD): SYMPTOMS & TREATMENT Abnormal Psychology Cleopatra Papathanasiou Fall Semester 2014 There are numerous and different mental illnesses and disorders that affect millions of people around the world. One such disorder‚ obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is defined as the persistent‚ uncontrollable‚ unwanted and obsessive feelings‚ thoughts or images and compulsive behaviors such as routines or rituals in
Premium Anxiety Psychology Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor