O.C.D

1. O.C.D Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

2. What is O.C.D? • O.C.D is an anxiety disorder. • You have irritating habits. • Must have the same routine everyday. • Need for everything to be clean and perfect.

3. Description & Examples • Like a needle getting stuck on an old record, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) causes the brain to get stuck on a particular thought or urge. • For example, you may check the stove twenty times to make sure it’s really turned off, wash your hands until they’re scrubbed raw, or drive around for hours to make sure that the bump you heard while driving wasn’t a person you ran over.

4. Warning signs & symptoms • Routines that must be repeated. • Everything has to be perfect. • Things have to be clean and neat. • If you start to have habits that you cant stop. • You must check things over and over. (certain amount of times) • You start skipping thing due to thoughts or “needs” • You start to give up on things • You lose your social life

5. What causes o.c.d? • Can start because of a traumatic event that occurred a stressful circumstance, in death of loved one, divorce, and childbirth. • By genetics (Runs in the family) • Get it from depression • Coming out of being a hoarder

6. The Brain • Experts believe OCD is related to levels of a normal chemical in the brain called serotonin. When the proper flow of serotonin is blocked, the brain's "alarm system" overreacts and misinterprets information. Danger messages are mistakenly triggered like "false alarms." Instead of the brain filtering out these unnecessary thoughts, the mind dwells on them — and the person experiences unrealistic fear and doubt.

7. Physical Behaviors • Excessive double-checking of things, such as locks, appliances, and switches. • Repeatedly checking in on loved ones to make sure they’re safe. • Counting, tapping, repeating certain words, or doing other senseless things to reduce anxiety. • Spending a lot of time washing or cleaning. • Praying excessively or engaging in rituals triggered by religious fear. • Accumulating “junk” such as old newspapers or empty food containers.

8. Mental Behaviors • Fear of being contaminated by germs or dirt or contaminating others. • Fear of causing harm to yourself or others. • Intrusive sexually explicit or violent thoughts and images. • Excessive focus on religious or moral ideas. • Fear of losing or not having things you might need. • Order and symmetry: the idea that everything must line up “just right.” • Superstitions; excessive attention to something considered lucky or unlucky.

9. Forms of OCD • Washers are afraid of contamination. They usually have cleaning or hand-washing compulsions. • Checkers repeatedly check things (oven turned off, door locked, etc.) that they associate with harm or danger. • Doubters and sinners are afraid that if everything isn’t perfect or done just right something terrible will happen or they will be punished. • Counters and arrangers are obsessed with order and symmetry. They may have superstitions about certain numbers, colors, or arrangements. • Hoarders fear that something bad will happen if they throw anything away. They compulsively hoard things that they don’t need or use.

10. How can I treat o.c.d? • Medication like, serbtonin, reuputake • Doctors • Therapy • Family • Self help

11. School & Community Resources • New Leaves Clinic; Beaverton Oregon • Local OCD Therapist/ Psychiatrists in Beaverton: • MalikaBurman • SoroushMohandessi • Scott M Murray • Lee Shershow • Local School Counselor

12. Sources Cited • Mental Health America www.healthyminds.org • KidsHealth for Parents, • Children, and Teens www.kidshealth.org • Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA) www.anxietycare.org • http://www.nimh.nig.gove

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