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Good Morning!. How much time did it take you to get ready this morning?. Morning preparations can often take hours for children with OCD, yet they get no more accomplished than you do…. Wake-Up – 5 min Shower- 5 min Dress- 5 min Face/ Hair/ Teeth- 5 min Breakfast- 15min TOTAL: 35min.

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  1. Good Morning! How much time did it take you to get ready this morning? Morning preparations can often take hours for children with OCD, yet they get no more accomplished than you do… Wake-Up – 5 min Shower- 5 min Dress- 5 min Face/ Hair/ Teeth- 5 min Breakfast- 15min TOTAL: 35min Think About This….

  2. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder(OCD) Lou Pizzichillo

  3. What is OCD? • National Institute of Mental Health • An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions). • Compulsions (rituals) fulfill the obsessions and are performed with the hope of satisfying them. • Hand washing • Counting • Unnecessary Repetition • Performing these so-called "rituals” provides only temporary relief, however attempting to ignore them can cause serious anxiety.

  4. Obsessions • Unwanted and uncontrollable thoughts, images, or impulses • Beyond Logic • Door Checking • Disturbing and distracting to everyday life.

  5. Compulsions • Behaviors or rituals that are driven by the obsessions. • Compulsions are performed in an attempt to make obsessions go away. • The short term relief provides only temporary satisfaction. • Addictive drug

  6. 5 Categories of People with OCD Washers Checkers Doubters Counters Hoarders

  7. “Washers” • Obsession: • Contamination • Germs • Compulsions: • Hand-washing • Constant Sanitizing • Underexposure • (gloves, masks) • Isolation

  8. Howie Mandel • Host of Deal or No Deal • Stand-up comedian • “Washer” • Fist pound • Ironically always sick • Purell • Hotel Stay • Removes the comforter • No blanket • Black Light • Towel Paths • Shower covers

  9. “Checkers” • Obsession: • Fear of forgetting something with dangerous consequences. • Rituals: constant “re-checking” things • Locked doors • Hot irons • Stoves • Anything potentially dangerous

  10. “Doubters” • Obsession: • Imperfection • Terrible, illogical, consequences • Rituals: • Can really be anything • Most ritualistic of the group because their fears are usually of something life threatening *Girl in the mirror

  11. “Counters or Arrangers” • Obsession: • Order • symmetry • Compulsion: • They may have superstitions about certain numbers, colors, or arrangements.

  12. “Hoarders” • Obsession: • Loss • Compulsion: • They are afraid to throw things away. • They compulsively hoard things that they don’t need or use.

  13. Nick • Counter or Arranger: • Cars (4) • Drawers • Doors • Doubter: • Obsessive Principles • Sink or swim • Stomach • Tic-Tacs and pretzels

  14. Teaching Children with OCD • Four Steps for Conquering Obsessive Thoughts and Compulsive Urges • RELABEL– Recognize that the intrusive obsessive thoughts and urges are the result of OCD. • REATTRIBUTE – Realize that the intensity and intrusiveness of the thought or urge is CAUSED BY OCD; it is probably related to a biochemical imbalance in the brain. • REFOCUS – Work around the OCD thoughts by focusing your attention on something else, at least for a few minutes: DO ANOTHER BEHAVIOR. • REVALUE – Do not take the OCD thought at face value. It Is not significant in itself. • Awareness/ Knowledge • The best teachers were those who understood. • Torturous • Rituals gave him anxiety • Anxiety gave him stomach aches • Be protective. • Sympathy • Philippians 2:1-2

  15. Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy,fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Philippians 2:1-2

  16. Works Cited Obsessive-compulsive disorder, ocd. (2010, March 18). Retrieved fromhttp://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/index.shtml Leininger, M . (2010). Teaching students with obsessive-compulsive disorder.. Intervention in School & Clinic, 45(4), doi: 10.1177/1053451209353447 Smith, Melinda. (n.d.). Ocd: symptoms and treatment for compulsive behavior and obsessive thoughts in children and teens. Retrieved from http://www.helpguide.org/mental/obsessive_compulsive_disorder_ocd.htm Stewart, S.E.. Ocd in children and teens. Retrieved from http://www.ocfoundation.org/childOCD.aspx#Child_Life

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