PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Derealization, Acute Stress Reaction, Dsm-5

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Mark Coates

Document Summary

If i dont wash my hands i will get sick. At some point during the course of the disorder, the person has recognized that the obsessions or compulsions are excessive or unreasonable. At some point the person recognizes they are excessive or unreasonable: dont need to check the door for 20 mins in the morning. In kids they think they are actually doing something that protects them: c. takes up alot of time/ imparing functioning, cant go to work until 4 blue cars pass my house. Touch all 4 walls when entering a room: washing hand so much layers of skin come out, prevalence is estimated at 1. 5-2. 5, excessive belief in personal responsibility and guilt. Feel they must perform compulsive behaviour or bad things will happen to other people. Feel that negative unwanted thoughts can cause those negative events to happen (thought-action fusion: a lot of people have some ocd some weird ritual thats not distressing so its not ocd.