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    This document discusses obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It defines OCD as an anxiety disorder characterized by recurring unwanted thoughts (obsessions) that drive repetitive behaviors (compulsions). It describes the main types of OCD such as contamination, checking, hoarding, intrusive thoughts, and symmetry. While there is no cure for OCD, medication and psychotherapy can help control symptoms for many sufferers. The document also discusses the links between PTSD and OCD, noting that compulsive behaviors in OCD may develop as an attempt to regain control after traumatic life events.

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    This document discusses obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It defines OCD as an anxiety disorder characterized by recurring unwanted thoughts (obsessions) that drive repetitive behaviors (compulsions). It describes the main types of OCD such as contamination, checking, hoarding, intrusive thoughts, and symmetry. While there is no cure for OCD, medication and psychotherapy can help control symptoms for many sufferers. The document also discusses the links between PTSD and OCD, noting that compulsive behaviors in OCD may develop as an attempt to regain control after traumatic life events.

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    This document discusses obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It defines OCD as an anxiety disorder characterized by recurring unwanted thoughts (obsessions) that drive repetitive behaviors (compulsions). It describes the main types of OCD such as contamination, checking, hoarding, intrusive thoughts, and symmetry. While there is no cure for OCD, medication and psychotherapy can help control symptoms for many sufferers. The document also discusses the links between PTSD and OCD, noting that compulsive behaviors in OCD may develop as an attempt to regain control after traumatic life events.

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    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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    This document discusses obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It defines OCD as an anxiety disorder characterized by recurring unwanted thoughts (obsessions) that drive repetitive behaviors (compulsions). It describes the main types of OCD such as contamination, checking, hoarding, intrusive thoughts, and symmetry. While there is no cure for OCD, medication and psychotherapy can help control symptoms for many sufferers. The document also discusses the links between PTSD and OCD, noting that compulsive behaviors in OCD may develop as an attempt to regain control after traumatic life events.

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    The key takeaways are that OCD is an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted thoughts and repetitive behaviors, the most common types are contamination, checking, hoarding, intrusive thoughts, and symmetry, and treatment options include medication and psychotherapy.

    The common types of OCD are contamination, checking, hoarding, intrusive thoughts, and symmetry.

    Examples of contamination OCD include fear of using public toilets, bleaching floors everyday, fear of shaking hands with people, and fear of contact with chemicals.

    OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE

    DISORDER
    THE NOTORIOUS MENTAL DISORDER THAT LIVES INSIDE US

    HALIM PRABOWO
    XI G - 17
    WHAT CAUSES OCD?
    THINGS ABOUT OCD
    THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
    Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety
    disorder in which time people have recurring, unwanted
    DEFINITION thoughts, ideas or sensations (obsessions) that make them feel
    driven to do something repetitively (compulsions).

    Typically begins at age

    WHO IS
    MOST 18-25
    LIKELY TO No older except for women who
    are pregnant and deliver babies
    HAVE IT?
    Jonathan Abramowitz, PhD
    There are five
    common types of
    TYPES
    Contamination Symmetry
    OCD

    Intrusive
    Hoarding
    Thoughts

    Checking
    CONTAMINATION
    The need to clean and wash because of the fear
    that something is contaminated and/or may
    cause illness, and ultimately death, to a loved
    one or oneself.
    Examples:
    • Fear to use public toilets
    • Bleaching the floors a certain amount of time everyday
    • Fear of shaking hands with people
    • Fear of coming to contact with chemicals
    CHECKING
    The obsessive fear to prevent damage, fire,
    leaks or harm. People with this type of OCD
    repeat the checking several times, although it
    is unnecessary.

    Examples:
    • Door locks
    • House alarms
    • Windows
    • Water taps
    HOARDING
    Collecting items that are judged to be of
    limited value by others such as old
    magazines, clothes, receipts, junk mail,
    notes, or containers that is caused by fear
    of losing items that may be needed or
    emotional attachment.
    INTRUSIVE
    THOUGHTS
    Where a person generally suffers with
    obsessional thoughts that are repetitive,
    disturbing and often horrific in nature. For
    example, thoughts of causing violent or sexual
    harm to loved ones.
    intrusive thinking may be in the areas of:
    • Relationships
    • Sexual Thoughts
    • Magical Thinking
    • Religious
    • Violent Thoughts
    SYMMETRY
    Ordering, Arranging, and Counting
    Compulsions

    For example, you might feel the need to


    constantly arrange your shirts so that they are
    ordered precisely by colour. This symptom subtype
    can also involve thinking or saying sentences or
    words over and over again until the task is
    accomplished perfectly.
    There is no cure for OCD because most people who suffer from
    OCD do not respond to therapies. However, 40-60% sufferers
    get better by medication alone. Although there is another
    method for treating people with OCD; psychotherapy. Usually
    TREATMENT
    they use the combination of both.

    MEDICATION PSYCHOTHERAPY
    Certain psychiatric medications can help
    control the obsessions and compulsions Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
    of OCD. Most commonly, antidepressants and Exposure and response
    are tried first. prevention (ERP)
    • Clomipramine (Anafranil)
    • Fluoxetine (Prozac)
    • Fluvoxamine Therapy may take place in
    • Paroxetine (Paxil, Pexeva) individual, family or group
    • Sertraline (Zoloft)
    sessions.
    THINGS ABOUT PTSD
    THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
    WHAT PTSD IS LIKE
    PTSD is a disorder that develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event.

    I`M OKAY I`M STRESSED I`M TRAUMATIZED


    Trauma-focused psychotherapies are the most highly recommended
    type of treatment for PTSD. "Trauma-focused" means that the
    treatment focuses on the memory of the traumatic event or its
    meaning.
    TREATMENT
    • Prolonged Exposure
    • Cognitive Processing Therapy
    • Eye-movement Desensitization
    Reprocessing
    PTSD
    OCD
    After experiencing traumatic events in life, people like to
    be in control. This newly found behaviour may lead to
    CONNECTION OCD. The severity of OCD depends on the number of
    traumatic events experienced in the affected person`s
    life.
    Compulsive behaviours may
    make a person feel more in

    54%
    control , safe, and reduce
    anxiety in the short-run.
    However, in the long-run,
    OF PEOPLE WITH OCD HAVE
    EXPERIENCED TRAUMATIC
    compulsive behaviors can
    EVENTS increase the amount of anxiety
    someone experiences.
    FACTORS Other factors that
    cause OCD
    Genetic Cognitive
    according to a
    study

    Environmental Behavioural

    Neurobiological

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