Cognitive

• What is the cognitive approach concerned with?

  How people process information
• What do people with OCD typically experience?

  Obsessive thoughts and cognitive strategies
• What percentage of people with OCD experience obsessive thoughts?

  90%
• What are obsessive thoughts characterized by?

  Recurring and unpleasant thoughts
• How do people with OCD respond to their obsessions?

  By adopting cognitive coping strategies
• What might a religious person with OCD do to cope with obsessive guilt?

  Pray or meditate
• What is a potential downside of cognitive coping strategies for OCD?

  They can make the person appear abnormal
• What is necessary for a diagnosis of OCD regarding insight?

  Awareness that obsessions are not rational
• What happens if someone believes their obsessive thoughts are real?

  It indicates a different mental disorder
• What type of thoughts do people with OCD experience about worst-case scenarios?

  Catastrophic thoughts
• What is hypervigilance in the context of OCD?

  Constant alertness to potential hazards
• How does hypervigilance affect people with OCD?

  It keeps their attention focused on dangers