PSY3032 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Trichotillomania
11 Oct 2018
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Based on presence of obsessions or compulsions. Obsessions are intrusive and recurring thoughts, images or impulses that are persistent and uncontrollable and that often appear irrational to the person experiencing them. Ocd tends to begin either before age 10 or else in late adolescence/early adulthood. Obsessions are defined by: recurrent, intrusive, persistent, unwanted thoughts, urges or images, the person tries to ignore, suppress, or neutralize the thoughts, urges or images. Ocd and related disorders all share a quality of repetitive thought as well as irresistible urges to engage. Trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder) repetitively in some behaviour or mental act. Preoccupied with one or more imagined or exaggerated defects in their appearance. Although people with bdd may appear attractive to others, they perceive themselves as ugly or even. Social and cultural factors play a role in how people decide whether they are attractive: concerns about body appearance are more common in america than in europe 74% of.
