NROSCI 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Internal Capsule
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Impending disaster 24: concerns about dirt, germs, or contaminations 40, symmetry/order 17, religious obsessions 13, body waste 8, while many schizophrenics smoke, (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of (cid:272)o(cid:374)ta(cid:373)i(cid:374)atio(cid:374) (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) ocd people do(cid:374)"t s(cid:373)oke. Commonalities: the idea or impulse intrudes insistently, persistently, and impellingly into awareness, feeling of dread leads the person to take action, the patient recognizes that it is absurd and irrational they retain insight unlike delusions. In schizophrenia, you buy into the delusions and the person believes them: they feel the need to resist however, resisting causes anxiety to build up. Characteristics: a sliding scale people tend to be compulsive, ocd is when it takes up too much time and you have a hard time functioning in society. Limited scope: u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior is irratio(cid:374)al (cid:271)ut (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t resist. Identical in the childhood and adult form: unusual because early onset is usually the worst, affects preferentially people with a higher social class, higher iq, and higher education level.
