PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Anxiety Disorder, Hypochondriasis, Psy

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: Vannasone

Document Summary

Persistent difficult discarding possessions, regardless of their actual value. Anxiety that something will be needed after it is discarded. Accumulation of possessions that congest and clutter active living areas. If living areas are uncluttered, it is only because of the interventions of others: treatment includes assigning different values to things with graduated discarding. Individuals usually begin acquiring things during their teenage years and often experience great pleasure even euphoria from shopping or otherwise collecting various items. Ocd tends to wax and wane, where as hoarding behavior can begin early in life. Excoriation (skin picking disorder) and trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder) Excoriation (skin picking disorder) is characterized by repetitive and compulsive picking of the skin, resulting in tissue damage: 1-5, habit reversal training, show best results. The urge to pull out one"s own hair from anywhere on the body, including scalp, eyebrows, and arms is referred to as a trichotillomania.