Understanding OCD: Criteria, Obsessions, and Compulsions

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What is the diagnostic criteria for OCD

The experience of obsessions, compulsions or both; • These experiences cause marked distress, are time consuming (>1 hr/day) or significantly interfere with functioning and relationships. • Specify if: – Good/fair insight – Poor insight – Absent insight/delusional beliefs

What is obessions

• Persistent ideas, thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced as intrusive and inappropriate and cause marked anxiety or distress; • Individual may recognize these experiences as products of their own mind.

What is the six common types of obsessions?

• Fears of contamination • Repeated doubts (safety, scruples) • Need to have things in a particular order • Sexual, horrific or blasphemous imagery • Aggressive or inappropriate impulses • Nonsensical thoughts or images

What is complusions?

• Repetitive behaviour(handwashing, checking) or mental acts (praying, counting, repeating words silently) the goal of which is to prevent or reduce anxiety; • Can include rigid/stereotyped acts according to elaborate rules without any real explanation of them.

What are the seven common types of complusions

• Washing and cleaning • Checking • Repeating • Ordering • Mental rituals (eg.Counting, prayers) • Reassurance seeking • Compulsive shopping

Explore the diagnostic criteria for OCD, learn about obsessions, and discover the six common types of obsessions. Delve into compulsions and understand the seven common types of compulsions associated with OCD.

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