Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Sheimiley Lozada
What Is OCD?
An anxiety disorder in which people have recurring, unwanted thoughts, ideas or sensations that makes them feel driven to do something repetitively.
Symptoms
- Cleaning , to reduce the fear that real or imagined germs or dirt will contaminate
- Utter a name or phrase
- repeat a behavior several times
- Checking to reduce the harming of oneself or other
Howie Mandel
Suffers from OCD and can't shake hands with anyone due to mysophobia. He lives with the fear of germs and dirt, for this reason he shaves his head because it makes him feel cleaner.
McMaster, P. (n.d.). Famous "Deal or No Deal" TV host Howie Mandel _0423. Retrieved December 22, 2014, from
Justin Timberlake
Suffers from OCD and has to have certain foods in the refrigerator and has to make sure that everything has to be lined up and perfect
(Shlabotnik, J. (2007, January 17). Justin Timberlake (crop). Retrieved December 12, 2014, from )
Billy bob Thorton
Suffers from OCD he has some minor symptoms which he just repeats some compulsive actions and some of the more complex symptoms he doesn't even like telling people about them because he doesn't know how to.
Manna, M. (n.d.). TIFF 2012- Billy Bob Thornton - Gala Presentation "Jayne Mansfield's Car" Retrieved December 16, 2014, from
Medications
Serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs) is the most common medication used for OCD. Fluvoxamine (Luvox), paroxetine (Paxil), fluoxetine (Prozac), sertraline (Zoloft), Citalopram (Celaxa), and escitalopram (Lexapro) are not as commonly used ass (SRI) but its also a type of medication for OCD
Causes
Ocd is most likely to be the result of a combination of either neurobiological, genetic, behavioural, cognitive, or environmental factors that trigger the disorder in a specific individual
Treatmeants
Treatments for OCD are Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Patient learns to decrease and then stop the rituals that plague their lives
Who can get OCD
Anyone can get OCD, Both male and female, and all social and ethnic groups, symptoms usually start at a young age