PSYC-110N Week 7 Assignment: You Decide: Psychological Disorders Create a Case! (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

key features of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) - answer ---Repetitive, intrusive, uncontrollable thoughts or urges (obsessions) Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that a person feels compelled to perform (compulsions) key features of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) - answer ---Preoccupation with imagined flaw in one's appearance (thinking about it for 3-8 hours a day) Excessive repetitive behaviors or acts regarding appearance (e.g., checking appearance, seeking reassurance) key features of hoarding disorder - answer ---Acquisition of an excessive number of objects Inability to part with those objects Obsessions - answer ---an intrusive and recurring thought that seems irrational and uncontrollable to the person experiencing it common OCD obsessions - answer ---contamination, responsibility for harm, sex and morality, violence, religion, symmetry or order compulsions - answer ---the irresistible impulse to repeat an irrational act or thought over and over common OCD compulsions - answer ---decontamination, checking, repeating routine activities, ordering/arranging, mental rituals OCD onset - answer ---begins before age 14 for most people affected, but at least a quarter of those affected report that symptoms began in early adulthood. it is a chronic disorder DSM-5 criteria for OCD - answer ---obsessions and/or compulsions