PSY 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Anxiety Disorder, Psy, Behaviour Therapy

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Lecture note 33 PSY 309:

• Define OCD

• OCD is an anxiety disorder

• Obsessions cause anxiety

• Compulsions are attempts to prevent or reduce anxiety

• What are the two components of OCD

• Obsessions and compulsions

• Obsessions

• Persistent thoughts, ideas, impulses, or images that seem to invade a person's

consciousness.

• Compulsions

• Repetitive and rigid behaviors or mental acts that people feel they need to perform to

prevent or reduce anxiety.

• Obsessions can be...

• Thoughts or images

• Themes of OCD

• Dirt/contamination, violence and aggression, orderliness, religion, sexuality

• Obsessions in OCD feel like they're coming from an _____________ (inside/outside)

source.

• Outside

• Common compulsions of OCD

• Checking (ex. locks), cleaning, maintaining order/balance, touching/verbal/counting

• Symptoms of OCD must...

• Feel excessive or unreasonable

• Cause great distress

• Take up significant time (at least 1 hr/day)

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