1 st hour Health Jessica Mowen

1. Impulse Control Disorder 1st hour Health Jessica Mowen

2. What is Impulse Control Disorder • It is a class of psychiatric disorder • characterized by impulsivity • failure to resist a temptation • Urge or impulse to harm others or self

3. Five behavioral stages • Impulse • Growing tension • Pleasure from acting • Relief from urge • Relief from guilt

4. Things that can come along with ICD • Addiction to alcohol and drugs • Eating disorders • Compulsive gambling • Compulsive hair pulling

5. Symptoms • Symptoms include: • Aggression • Destruction of belongings • Destroying others property • Running away for no apparent reasons

6. 5 categories to define ICD • The five categories are: • intermittent(violent anger) • Pyromania(repeating setting fires) • Kleptomania(Stealing things that have little value) • Obsessive Gambling(Inability to stop despite great loss) • Trichotillomania(Pulling one’s own hair out)

7. Causes of ICD • What causes impulse control disorder well researchers suggest • Icd may be a side effect from other medical conditions particularly • Traumatic head injury, in genetic disposition (epilepsy), and abnormal neurological development during prenatal period.

8. Treatment • o Impulse control disorders have two treatment options: psychosocial and pharmacological

9. How common is ICD? • ICD is not that common the most common part of ICD is people with obsessive buying. • ICD can be with your personality.

10. Resources • Wikipedia.org • Psychcentral.com • Suite101.com