PSY BEH 102C Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Factitious Disorder
1 Apr 2017
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Cleaning and washing or checking rituals are common. Stats: 2% of the general population, equal gender distribution, similar incidence among all cultures, onset is typically early teens or young adulthood, ocd tends to be chronic. Causes: parallels the other anxiety disorders, early life experiences, learning that some thoughts are dangerous/unacceptable, thought-action fusion. The thought is similar to the action; thinking something will make it. Biological treatments more likely to happen: ssris (help 60%, relapse is common with medication discontinuation. Psychological treatment: cbt, involves exposure to anxious cues and prevention of ritualized response. Touching doors and not washing hands afterwards. They see that what they fear will happen will not happen: combining cbt with medication no better than cbt alone. Excessively collecting items and have a fear of not having them. Anxiety disorders occur when natural processes become disproportionate to the environment. Trauma and stress disorders stressful experiences. Presence of one or more medically unexplained symptoms.
