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OBSESSIVE - COMPULSIVE DISORDER (TOC)
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HOW IS THE TOC EVIDENT?

The essential characteristic of this disorder is the presence of obsessions and compulsions appellants the sufficient thing burden as to cause significant wasting times (more than one daily hour) or a marked deterioration of the general activity or a discomfort clinically significantly. In some moments the subject admits that there are exaggerated or irrational conducts.

The obsessions are defined as ideas, thoughts, impulses or images of persistent character that the individual considers to be intrusive or inappropriate and that provoke anxiety. The individuals are conscious of his irrationality and of that are a product of his mind, but they escape to his control.

The most frequent obsessions are related to topics like:

  • Contamination, like believing that it will contract an illness on having pressed the hand hard.
  • Repetitive doubts, like to ask if the house door will have closed well.
  • Need to have the things as a certain order, like discomfort before asymmetric objects position.
  • Impulses of aggressive or horrifying character, like shouting obscenities in a church.
  • Sexual fantasies, like for example a pornographic image appellant.

The individual who suffers obsessions will try to suppress them or to ignore them, or to neutralize them across compulsions, as for example to verify recurrentemente if the stove has closed well before the doubt.

The compulsions are defined as behaviors (wash of hands, cross-checks...) or mental acts (to pray, to repeat words...) of character appellant, whose intention is to relieve the anxiety that rides I obtain the obsession or to avoid a negative situation. An individual obsessed for contracting illness on having pressed hands hard, will wash his them up to wrinkling them, which has blasphemous thoughts will count from the 1 10...

HOW ARE THESE SUBJECTS?

They usually avoid the situations related to the obsessions, like the dirt. The hypochondriac worries are frequent translating in numerous visits the doctor for him. There are observed feelings of fault and disorders of the sleep. Also an excessive alcohol consumption usually happens, sedative, hypnotic... his principal activity of every day is usually the compulsions.

Dermatologic problems are observed usually due to the excessive use of disinfectants.

CAUSES

It owes neither to effects of substances like drugs, nor to illnesses. It seems to be more probable in individuals relatives with Tourette syndrome.

PREDOMINANCE

It has been believed that IV-tr affects 2,5 % of the general population as the DSM.

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Writing: Medical equipment   Update: June, 2009
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