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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Danielle Bickert , Daria Maggio , Ashley Balinovic. What is O.C.D?.

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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  1. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Danielle Bickert , Daria Maggio , Ashley Balinovic

  2. What is O.C.D? • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts , feelings , ideas , sensations , or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something.

  3. Statistics • O.C.D affects about 2.2 million American adults each year. People with O.C.D often go years without treatment. No O.C.D medications have been shown to improve quality of life. They total costs of O.C.D were estimated to be $8.4 billion dollars in 1990 which is 5.7% of the estimated $147.8 billion dollar costs of all mental illnesses.

  4. Symptoms & Signs • Excessive counting • Fear of germs • Repeatedly washing hands • Retracing steps and/actions • Cant control unwanted thoughts and behaviors • Spends at least one hour a day on the thoughts and rituals , which cause distress and gets in the way of daily life

  5. Categories • Washers: afraid of contamination. they usually have cleaning or hand washing compulsions. • Checkers: repeatedly check things that they associate with harm or danger • Doubters & Sinners: afraid that if everything isn’t perfect or done just right, something terrible will happen, or will be punished • Counters & Arrangers: obsessed with order and symmetry. • Hoarders: Fear that if something bad will happen if they throw something away.

  6. Tips for managing O.C.D • Explore your anxieties • Make a list of obsessions & compulsions • Recognize the rituals that interfere with your daily life • Face your fears with therapy

  7. What happens when you try to help? People with OCD may try to ignore the help , or stop them but that only increases their distress and anxiety. In the end , they want to perform compulsive acts in an effort to ease their stressful feelings.

  8. Treatments • Treated using anti-depressants called a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor.

  9. Cites: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001926/ http://www.ocdcenter.org/about-ocd/ocd-statistics.php

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