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What is OCD?. Obsessive Compulsive DisorderEveryday worries, doubts, superstitious beliefsMuch more excessive than in most people. OCD Definitions. Obsessions thoughts, images, or impulses that occur over and over again that feel out of your controlCompulsions rituals or actions performed to
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1. OCD By: Dan McCormack
2. What is OCD? Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Everyday worries, doubts, superstitious beliefs
Much more excessive than in most people
3. OCD Definitions Obsessions – thoughts, images, or impulses that occur over and over again that feel out of your control
Compulsions – rituals or actions performed to try and make obsessions go away.
4. Common OCD Obsessions Contamination Fears
Imagining Harm
Imagining losing control
Intrusive sexual thoughts Religious or moral doubt
Forbidden thoughts
A need to have things “just so”
A need to tell, ask, confess
5. Common OCD Compulsions Washing
Repeating
Checking
Counting
Touching Ordering/arranging
Hoarding or saving
Praying
6. OCD Treatment Therapy (psychiatrist)
Medications
Luvox, Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Anafranil
Meds do not treat OCD, but hide its symptoms
7. OCD Treatment (Cont’d) If quitting medication, wean gradually off medication with careful supervision.
Do only when life is not stressful.
Less stressful life is, more gradually you wean off meds, more work you put into therapy, better you’ll do.
8. OCD Treatment (Cont’d) Very dangerous to suddenly quit meds
Vivid dreams/nightmares
Depression
Anxiety
Flu-like symptoms
OCD “relapse”
Symptoms return, but more severe than before
9. People with OCD Howard Hughes
Howie Mandel
Contamination fears
Marc Summers
Me
10. About Marc Summers Has had OCD symptoms since Childhood
Family has traces of OCD symptoms
Obsessed with cleanliness and neatness
11. About Marc Summers (Cont’d) Learned about OCD by a guest speaker on a talk-show he co-hosted.
Wasn’t diagnosed until 1996
Took Luvox
12. About Marc Summers (Cont’d) Wrote autobiography “Everything in it’s Place”
Spokesperson for Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
13. About My OCD Diagnosed in 1995
On meds since 1996
Currently take Anafranil (200 mg daily)
Get EKG and blood work done (required b/c of medication)
Tourettes Syndrome
Used to take Respital, not
presently taking medication
14. About My OCD (Cont’d) Aspergers Syndrome
Obsessive about fire alarms
Collect (compulsion)
Have high anxiety
Evacuate buildings ahead of time for fire drills
See a psychiatrist
15. Other OCD Facts Very hard to trace OCD
No one specific gene contains it
Many other syndromes related to OCD
Aspergers (Poor social skills, autistic-like symptoms)
Tourettes Syndrome (tics – vocal, actions)
Trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling)
16. Other OCD Facts (Cont’d) Very few people “fully” recover from OCD
Symptoms never fully go away (relapses)
Must have certain characteristics to be diagnosed with OCD
17. Characteristics for Diagnosis Obsessions and compulsions must cause a person distress
Must be time consuming
Must interfere with person’s functioning
18. OCD Resources Resources are available for info and help with OCD
Anxiety Disorders Association of America
www.adaa.org
National OCD Resource Center
www.ocdresourse.com
Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
www.ocfoundation.org
20. Works Cited Summers, Marc. Everything in it’s Place New York: 2000.
“Obsessive Compulsive Foundation” 2005.
http://www.ocfoundation.org
Packer, Leslie. “Tourette’s Syndrome “Plus”” 2004.
http://www.tourettesyndrome.net
Kirby, Barabra. “What Is Asperger Syndrome?”
http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/