Case Study Details. John is a 56-year-old man who presents to you for treatment. His symptoms started slowly; he tells you that he was always described as an anxious person and remembers being worried about a lot of things throughout his life. For instance, he reported he was very afraid he'd contract HIV by touching doorknobs, even though he ...
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Treated without Medication
Case Study; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Treated without Medication - John; Severe OCD since 4th Grade. John was a very bright young fellow who was heading off to an Ivy League university in the fall. He was suffering from very severe OCD since 4th grade. He had tried Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, however it didn't help.
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The Journey to Recovery: A Case Study on OCD Management. John, a 35-year-old male, presented with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), characterized by an overwhelming need for symmetry and orderliness, leading to compulsive behaviors that occupied nearly 5 to 10 hours per day. This debilitating condition rendered him unable to maintain ...
A Case of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Triggered by the Pandemic
Background: The pandemic caused by the sars-cov2 coronavirus can be considered the biggest international public health crisis. Outbreaks of emerging diseases can trigger fear reactions. Strict adherence to the strategies can cause harmful consequences, particularly for people with pathology on the spectrum of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Case presentation: We describe the clinical case of a ...
A True Story of Living With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Tiffany Dawn Hasse is a performance poet, a TED talk speaker, and an individual successfully living with OCD who strives to share about her disorder through her art of written and spoken word ...
PDF A Case of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Triggered by the Pandemic
OCD is associated with a reduced quality of life and is often co-morbid with anxiety and mood (affective) disorders, namely depressive disorder and is associated with sig-nificant impairment in functioning. The WHO ranked OCD within the top ten disabling disorders is associated with dysfunction and decreased quality of life [3,5].
Cognitive behavioral therapy of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Cognitive behavioral conceptualization of OCD. Several cognitive behavioral theories about the development and maintenance of OCD symptoms have been put forward. Dollard and Miller 1 adopted Mowrer's twostage theory 2, 3 to explain the development and maintenance of fear/anxiety and avoidance in OCD. Mowrer's theory maintains that a neutral ...
"The Ickiness Factor:" Case Study of an Unconventional
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a complex condition with biological, genetic, and psychosocial causes. Traditional evidence-based treatments include cognitive-behavioural therapy, either alone or in combination with serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitors (SSRI's), other serotonergic agents, or atypical antipsychotics. These treatments, however, often do not lead to remission, and ...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is the fourth most common mental illness worldwide, with 1%-3% prevalence in the general population. 1 The hallmark of OCD is the presence of recurrent or persistent thoughts, impulses, or images (obsessions) experienced as distressing by the person and are attempted to be suppressed by performing repetitive mental or behavioral acts (compulsions). 2 ...
Multidimensional Approaches for A Case of Severe Adult Obsessive
Summary. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic, distressing and substantially impairing neuropsychiatric disorder, characterized by obsessions or compulsions. The current case describes a 44-year-old adult female diagnosed with OCD. The patient had an incomplete response to several SSRIs alone during her past treatment, and led a ...
Story of "Hope": Successful treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder
The client Hope provides a good example of a very positive outcome from sustained, multifaceted psychotherapy with a 30-year-old woman presenting with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), fear of flying, panic disorder without agoraphobia, nightmare disorder, and a childhood history of separation anxiety disorder. Based on ratings at the beginning of therapy and end of therapy on a structured ...
Imagery Rescripting on Guilt-Inducing Memories in OCD: A Single Case
Introduction. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common clinical condition experienced by about 1.2% of the population and with an estimated lifetime prevalence of 2.3% (1, 2).OCD produces suffering and seriously compromises patients' overall quality of life, weighing heavily also on the quality of life of the co-habiting family (3-6).OCD is characterized by obsessions and compulsions.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
The mean age at the onset of OCD ranges from 22 to 36 years, with the disorder developing in only 15 percent of patients older than 35 years. 3 Men tend to have an earlier age at onset than women ...
(PDF) OCD Case Study
OCD Aslan 1. Yiğit's Case Study. John is 30 years old who lives in Turkey. He is just divorced, and he works at one of the technology. companies and is a very successful and punctual person ...
Juvenile obsessive-compulsive disorder: A case report
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a clinically heterogeneous disorder with many possible subtypes.[] The lifetime prevalence of OCD is around 2-3%.[] Evidence points to a bimodal distribution of the age of onset, with studies of juvenile OCD finding a mean age at onset of around 10 years, and adult OCD studies finding a mean age at onset of 21 years.[2,3] Treatment is often delayed in ...
Psychological treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: The case of
Presents a case report of a 29-year-old Caucasian female in Her first year as a graduate student, described the presence of unwelcome, yet recurrent and distressing, intrusive thoughts. These included unwanted impulses to yell curse words during classes, when at the library, or other quiet places such as plays or other performances. When in the presence of knives, she also experienced unwanted ...
Case Report on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder where people feel the. need to check things repeatedly, perform certain routines repeatedly (called "rituals"), or have. certain thoughts repeatedly (called "obsessions"). Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a. debilitating neuropsychiatric disorder with a lifetime prevalence of 2 to ...
PDF Obsessive-compulsive disorder: discussion of treatment
of obsessive-compulsive disorder has been apparent since the 1960s. Meyer'° demonstrated an impressive 9007 success rate forsymptomalleviationinaseries ofcasestudies, usingacom-bination offlooding andresponse prevention. A70%o success rate wasachieved in subsequent controlled studies."I Thetreat-ment package comprised three important ...
Book Forum
Book Forum. DSM-5 Clinical Cases, edited by John W. Barnhill, M.D. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2014, 402 pp., $89.00. DSM-5 Clinical Cases makes the rather overwhelming DSM-5 much more accessible to mental health clinicians by using clinical examples—the way many clinicians learn best—to illustrate the changes in ...
Woman diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder became delusional
Core Tip: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common mental disorder that varies greatly in manifestation and causes much distress to individuals.We describe a case that developed over a decade where a Chinese woman with OCD became delusional after childbirth, seriously affecting her marriage and parent-child relationship.
Case Study (OSD)
The document discusses a case study of a patient named John diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). John spent excessive time checking and rechecking his work, which led to him losing his job. The case study outlines John's diagnosis, provisional diagnosis of social anxiety disorder, steps to rule out other potential disorders, discussion of John's symptoms matching OCD, and ...
Research Study Findings
Some highlights of major findings from our studies: The OCD Family Study reported that the prevalence of OCD was significantly greater in relatives of OCD cases than in relatives of controls (12% vs 3%). OCD cases with earlier age at onset of symptoms were more likely to have relatives with OCD. ( Archives of General Psychiatry 2000; 57:358-363 ).
Understanding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): A Case Study
OCD is associated with comorbid mental illness characterized by the symptoms exhibited by John in the case study. As a chronic debilitating anxiety disorder, obsessions and repetitive behaviors carried out to decrease anxiety compromises the patient's functioning well-being, leading to detrimental impact on daily life (Subramaniam, 2023).
Research by Quinn, co-principals and undergrads included in case study
A four-page case study published by SARE recaps an agroforestry research project led by John Quinn, Brannon Andersen and Courtney Quinn. Undergrads also worked on the study, which was funded by a SARE grant in 2016. ... Furman University's John Quinn, a biology professor and director of environmental studies, and co-principal investigators ...
Texas anti-abortion heartbeat law led to more deaths after birth: study
Texas enacted its anti-abortion law before the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling. Study found far more infants died in Texas than had before the ban.
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Case Study Details. John is a 56-year-old man who presents to you for treatment. His symptoms started slowly; he tells you that he was always described as an anxious person and remembers being worried about a lot of things throughout his life. For instance, he reported he was very afraid he'd contract HIV by touching doorknobs, even though he ...
Case Study; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Treated without Medication - John; Severe OCD since 4th Grade. John was a very bright young fellow who was heading off to an Ivy League university in the fall. He was suffering from very severe OCD since 4th grade. He had tried Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, however it didn't help.
The Journey to Recovery: A Case Study on OCD Management. John, a 35-year-old male, presented with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), characterized by an overwhelming need for symmetry and orderliness, leading to compulsive behaviors that occupied nearly 5 to 10 hours per day. This debilitating condition rendered him unable to maintain ...
Background: The pandemic caused by the sars-cov2 coronavirus can be considered the biggest international public health crisis. Outbreaks of emerging diseases can trigger fear reactions. Strict adherence to the strategies can cause harmful consequences, particularly for people with pathology on the spectrum of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Case presentation: We describe the clinical case of a ...
Tiffany Dawn Hasse is a performance poet, a TED talk speaker, and an individual successfully living with OCD who strives to share about her disorder through her art of written and spoken word ...
OCD is associated with a reduced quality of life and is often co-morbid with anxiety and mood (affective) disorders, namely depressive disorder and is associated with sig-nificant impairment in functioning. The WHO ranked OCD within the top ten disabling disorders is associated with dysfunction and decreased quality of life [3,5].
Cognitive behavioral conceptualization of OCD. Several cognitive behavioral theories about the development and maintenance of OCD symptoms have been put forward. Dollard and Miller 1 adopted Mowrer's twostage theory 2, 3 to explain the development and maintenance of fear/anxiety and avoidance in OCD. Mowrer's theory maintains that a neutral ...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a complex condition with biological, genetic, and psychosocial causes. Traditional evidence-based treatments include cognitive-behavioural therapy, either alone or in combination with serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitors (SSRI's), other serotonergic agents, or atypical antipsychotics. These treatments, however, often do not lead to remission, and ...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is the fourth most common mental illness worldwide, with 1%-3% prevalence in the general population. 1 The hallmark of OCD is the presence of recurrent or persistent thoughts, impulses, or images (obsessions) experienced as distressing by the person and are attempted to be suppressed by performing repetitive mental or behavioral acts (compulsions). 2 ...
Summary. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic, distressing and substantially impairing neuropsychiatric disorder, characterized by obsessions or compulsions. The current case describes a 44-year-old adult female diagnosed with OCD. The patient had an incomplete response to several SSRIs alone during her past treatment, and led a ...
The client Hope provides a good example of a very positive outcome from sustained, multifaceted psychotherapy with a 30-year-old woman presenting with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), fear of flying, panic disorder without agoraphobia, nightmare disorder, and a childhood history of separation anxiety disorder. Based on ratings at the beginning of therapy and end of therapy on a structured ...
Introduction. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common clinical condition experienced by about 1.2% of the population and with an estimated lifetime prevalence of 2.3% (1, 2).OCD produces suffering and seriously compromises patients' overall quality of life, weighing heavily also on the quality of life of the co-habiting family (3-6).OCD is characterized by obsessions and compulsions.
The mean age at the onset of OCD ranges from 22 to 36 years, with the disorder developing in only 15 percent of patients older than 35 years. 3 Men tend to have an earlier age at onset than women ...
OCD Aslan 1. Yiğit's Case Study. John is 30 years old who lives in Turkey. He is just divorced, and he works at one of the technology. companies and is a very successful and punctual person ...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a clinically heterogeneous disorder with many possible subtypes.[] The lifetime prevalence of OCD is around 2-3%.[] Evidence points to a bimodal distribution of the age of onset, with studies of juvenile OCD finding a mean age at onset of around 10 years, and adult OCD studies finding a mean age at onset of 21 years.[2,3] Treatment is often delayed in ...
Presents a case report of a 29-year-old Caucasian female in Her first year as a graduate student, described the presence of unwelcome, yet recurrent and distressing, intrusive thoughts. These included unwanted impulses to yell curse words during classes, when at the library, or other quiet places such as plays or other performances. When in the presence of knives, she also experienced unwanted ...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder where people feel the. need to check things repeatedly, perform certain routines repeatedly (called "rituals"), or have. certain thoughts repeatedly (called "obsessions"). Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a. debilitating neuropsychiatric disorder with a lifetime prevalence of 2 to ...
of obsessive-compulsive disorder has been apparent since the 1960s. Meyer'° demonstrated an impressive 9007 success rate forsymptomalleviationinaseries ofcasestudies, usingacom-bination offlooding andresponse prevention. A70%o success rate wasachieved in subsequent controlled studies."I Thetreat-ment package comprised three important ...
Book Forum. DSM-5 Clinical Cases, edited by John W. Barnhill, M.D. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2014, 402 pp., $89.00. DSM-5 Clinical Cases makes the rather overwhelming DSM-5 much more accessible to mental health clinicians by using clinical examples—the way many clinicians learn best—to illustrate the changes in ...
Core Tip: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common mental disorder that varies greatly in manifestation and causes much distress to individuals.We describe a case that developed over a decade where a Chinese woman with OCD became delusional after childbirth, seriously affecting her marriage and parent-child relationship.
The document discusses a case study of a patient named John diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). John spent excessive time checking and rechecking his work, which led to him losing his job. The case study outlines John's diagnosis, provisional diagnosis of social anxiety disorder, steps to rule out other potential disorders, discussion of John's symptoms matching OCD, and ...
Some highlights of major findings from our studies: The OCD Family Study reported that the prevalence of OCD was significantly greater in relatives of OCD cases than in relatives of controls (12% vs 3%). OCD cases with earlier age at onset of symptoms were more likely to have relatives with OCD. ( Archives of General Psychiatry 2000; 57:358-363 ).
OCD is associated with comorbid mental illness characterized by the symptoms exhibited by John in the case study. As a chronic debilitating anxiety disorder, obsessions and repetitive behaviors carried out to decrease anxiety compromises the patient's functioning well-being, leading to detrimental impact on daily life (Subramaniam, 2023).
A four-page case study published by SARE recaps an agroforestry research project led by John Quinn, Brannon Andersen and Courtney Quinn. Undergrads also worked on the study, which was funded by a SARE grant in 2016. ... Furman University's John Quinn, a biology professor and director of environmental studies, and co-principal investigators ...
Texas enacted its anti-abortion law before the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling. Study found far more infants died in Texas than had before the ban.