Introduction to OCD

• An example of excessive behaviours:

  Hypeviligant-alertness and attention to potential hazards. Catastrophic thoughts about the worst case senerios.
• What are coping strategies?

  efforts to deal with stress
• What are obsessive thoughts?

  Persistent and pleasant thoughts
• What are the cognitive characteristics of OCD?

  - Obsessive thoughts

  - Coping strategies

  - excessive behaviours
• Why are guilt and disgust characteristics of OCD?

  OCD sometimes involves negitive emotions such as guilt
• How is depression a characteristic of OCD?

  Compulsions tend to bring relief but only temporary

  • often accompanied with OCD
• How is anxiety and distress created in OCD?

  
  

  Anxiety accompanies obsession and compulsion

  • the urge to complete a behaviour creates anxiety
• What are the emotional characteristics of OCD?

  • Anxiety and distress
  • Depression
  • Guilt and disgust
• What is avoidance in OCD?

  • Keeping away from triggering situations to reduce anxiety
  • may interfere with everyday life
• Examples of compulsions:

  Counting, praying,tidying
• What are compulsions in OCD?

  • Repeated behaviours
  • reduce anxiety
  • external
• Behavioural characteristics of OCD

  • Compulsions
  • avoidance
• What are obsessions?

  • Persistent thoughts
  • internal
• What is OCD?

  An anxiety disorder characterised buy obsession and compulsive behaviour