Obsessive-Compulsive+Disorder+(OCD)

//Western Diagnosis// recurrent, unwanted, intrusive ideas, images, or impulses that seem silly, weird, nasty, or horrible and by urges to do something that will lessen the discomfort due to the obsessions

1.6% population in any 6 month period

Signs & Symptoms
1. harm, risk, danger: contamination, aggression, doubt 2. repetitive, purposeful, intentional behaviors to balance obsessions: washing, avoidance 3. awareness that obsessions are not real and that compulsions are excessive [neurosis] a. psychotic disorders have loss of contact with reality 4. depression

Treatment
1. SSRI’s 2. tryptophan 3. behavior therapy