My problem was that I often picked at my cuticles, such as peeling then skin or at the cuticle itself. After researching this, I have found that there is a disorder called Compulsive Skin Picking or Excoriation Disorder. I found that I am not the only one who was constantly looking at her cuticles and picking at the peelings. As I researched Excoriation Disorder, I have found it to be a serious problem where people suffered from constantly trying to “touch, rub, scratch, pick at, or dig into their skin, often in an attempt to remove small irregularities or perceived imperfections” (Trichotillomania Learning Center). This disorder occurs in kids and adults all over the world and in extreme cases, will cause severe scarring and distortion of the skin. Research has stated that there are at least 1 in 20 people who suffer from this disorder, and an “estimation of about 2% of dermatology clinic patients suffer from this condition” (Dell’Osso, B., Altamura, A. C., Allen, A., Marazziti, D., & Hollander, E. (2006). It is also suggested that though this disorder occurs both in male and female, it seems to manifest more in females (Fama, 2010.) The nature of this problem is that those who suffer are constantly feeling the need to pick at certain parts of the skin repetitively, which is why it is often classified as an OCD, or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Often times referred as “a body focuses repetitive behavior” or “obsessive compulsive spectrum disorder”, this disorder has features present that is also close to those in OCDs such as trichotillomania which is a repetitive hair pulling disorder (Fama, 2010.) However, there are a variety of reasons as to why one would pick at their skin. Some will pick at their skin because of boredom, w...
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...enges because I’ve done this for 7 years now and that won’t go away immediately. I feel that it will take a long time before I am over this health issue of mine, but I did make a successful start towards the long-term goal of mine. My strategies to overcome those certain barriers were always to identify that I am have urges, and then to control them in a form of distraction. I feel it worked brilliantly, but I also feel that professional treatment is also a form of way that can stop this health issue of mine. Although, I feel it is not an extreme case of Excoriation Disorder, I still feel that I do fall into that category even if I feel I am at the bottom and less serious group. For now though, I feel that the plan I have set up for myself is going in the right direction and will eventually, and hopefully, destroy the urges I have with my cuticles.
Tourette syndrome is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by motor and phonic tics usually starting in childhood and often accompanied by poor impulse control (Chiu, 2013, p.405). The disorder is named for Dr. Georges Gilles de la Tourette, the pioneering French neurologist who in 1885 first described the condition in an 86-year-old French woman (ninds.nih.gov, 2013). Tourette syndrome was once considered to be a rare a condition that causes a person to make repeated, quick movements or sounds that they cannot control. These movements or sounds are called tics, but this symptom is only present in a minority of cases.
Regina is a 20 year-old single female who is struggling to obtain her business degree at a mid-sized university. In the last two and a half years she has only received 26 credit hours. Seeing that she is having problems, her adviser along with her parents, suggested that she attend therapy. Regina is frequently having anxiety about germs and performing certain rituals in order to lessen her anxiety. In order to be comfortable in her classes, she feels she must arrive early, find a specific desk on a certain row, and thoroughly clean the desk and seat before she can be seated. Also, before she can leave her off-campus apartment in the morning, she is finding herself spending more and more time cleaning her apartment, then showering and getting dressed, and then cleaning the bathroom thoroughly. Regina also has found herself fearful of eating in restaurants and going to eat at family and friends homes. Her fear of germs is intensifying and prohibiting her from having adequate relationships. This is leaving her to feel quite isolated and lonely.
The movie Mysterious Skin is a heart-wrenching movie of two young boys who endured sexual abuse as children. During the movie we get to see how this sexual abuse impacted their lives from adolescence to adulthood. The local baseball coach is incidentally the same man who sexually abuses both boys in this film. He sexually abused the boys through the use of seduction and manipulation. From the movie we can see that there is a connection between the two boys, but we are not fully informed of their story until the end of the movie, which occurred ten years post-abuse. I chose to look more into the character of Brian Lackey; the audience is first introduced to Brian when he is an eight-year-old boy living in Kansas. Brian is a shy and awkward kid
This cohesive form of therapy encompasses treatments that are based on “the connection between thinking patterns, emotions, and behavior and… techniques to change dysfunctional thinking patterns,” (Kearny and Trull, 2014). Cognitive behavioral therapy strives to change the way people think and behave through connections with both intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships. Although there is not much information provided regarding her familial life and its possible effects on Suzannia’s self image, it seems as though most of her abnormal thoughts regarding her nose is an intrapersonal issue. Both her OCD and BDD have manifested from her perceived ideas of how she personally believes she appears to be. Others around her are not observant of her nose imperfections but rather, her odd behaviors. Fortunately, Suzannia’s professor has taken notice to the symptoms and encouraged her to seek help. Since she is isolated from friends due to her fear of being judged, it was unlikely that they would have noticed the symptoms and intervene. The therapist could help Suzannia deal with her body dysmorphia through elaborating on issues regarding unrealistic body standards within our culture and promoting body positivity. In addition, Suzannia can work on dealing with her obsessions regarding her nose and controlling her unnecessary
There are, as Mulvey explains, two ways a man can potentially escape castration anxiety. One is a voyeuristic route in which the man is concerned with re-enacting the "original trauma." Here the man is concerned with asc...
The Beauty Industry being such a wide market of services and products include providing for the care of our skin, hair, selling of perfumes and cosmetics (“What is the Beauty Industry?”2014) and now developing more extensively into basic cosmetic surgery and treatments, now gives society a big opportunity to pamper and nourish themselves in more extensive ways. Throughout this essay, the branches of dermatology and dermal therapies will be explained; common skin disorders and specifically a treatment called ‘Ultrasonic Peeling’ and how it can potentially help with skin disorders imposed today will be explored and described in detail. After the investigation of what Ultrasonic Peeling is and how it works, I will also state my opinion on how well I think the treatment benefits its users, give my evaluation if I would consider using it, what I think the positives and negatives are and in scenario, assess whether it is a treatment that more salons should consider offering.
Some symptoms of Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) are fear of germs, perfectionism, and rituals. When someone has OCD they are afraid of germs and might constantly be washing their hands or cleaning their room. Someone who suffers from OCD needs everything to be perfect and they might organize their closet by color size. Their rituals calm their anxiety. Certain rituals are things such as checking the stove a certain number of times to make sure it is off or tap their finger a number of times just because it makes them feel better. Obsessive compulsive disorder can be associated with other mental disorders that cause stress and anxiety, but it can be treated with cognitive behavioral therapy and medication.
It started with a minor compulsion to do hair. I found myself spending more time than ever before staring into the mirror, strategically situating each strand. But it quickly escalated, infecting the realm of my desire: I wanted to cut hair. Mine, my housemate's, that guy who walked by me in the park and so desperately needed to trim off his mullet. Anyone. I found myself nightly snipping off different pieces of hair, my wastebasket mounding with black, brown, bleached little trimmings, the cast-offs of my art.
This case paper is about Lucinda, a 20-year old single female, who suffers from the Cleaning/Contamination Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) condition since she was very young. She is characterized by intrusive thoughts, images, and/or impulses that cause distress (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors that are performed to neutralize these intrusions (Coles, Schofield & Pietrefesa, 2006), i.e. her repetitive cleaning and washing behaviors. Her anxiety became so excessive that it interfered with her daily life. She perceived that some undesirable object(s), in this case the germs, were still on the things that she will come in contact with, even after she had repeatedly washing and/or cleaning them. Her anxiety further degraded both her social and occupational functioning, which resulted in considerable impacts to herself, her friends and family. In additions, her anxiety also caused her not be able to function to her fullest potential academically and to socialize with her friends and family as much as she wanted to.
To try and combat and modify this behaviour I attempted both positive reinforcement and positive punishment. For instance I allowed myself 1 hour extra on the computer if I went the whole day without biting my nails additionally after attempting the positive reinforcement above I attempted positive punishment which consisted of me doing 50 push ups each time I repeated the operant response.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, more commonly known as OCD, is a mental health issues that affects people of all ages. In Kissing Doorknobs the main character Tara Sullivan suffers from this disorder and must perform “rituals” in order to calm her obsessions. Sometimes Tara would have to do her rituals more than once in order to settle her tendencies. Today let us explore this disease to see what makes these people tick.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder has been classified as a type of anxiety disorder under DSM-5, in which there is a presence of obsessions, compulsions or both. Obsessions are defined as “intrusive and mostly nonsensical thoughts, images, or urges that the individual tries to resist or eliminate,” while compulsion are the thought or actions that accompany these obsessions to try to suppress and provide relief. (TEXTBOOK) The obsessions are categorized into four major types, and each is linked with a certain pattern of compulsive behaviors.
Medicalization describes the shift in authority concerning abnormal human conditions. Quirks previously seen as by-products of maturation began to see heavy examination and were classified under medical terms. As a result, the past few decades have seen an obscene number of compulsions and disorders deemed medical conditions, further exacerbating the unnecessary institutionalization of many harmless irregularities. This string coincides with the growing popularity of sex addiction and the debate over its inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The mere thought of such a neurotic desire potentially joining the DSM alongside major mental and learning disorders epitomizes the depths to which society has sunk in recognition of truly straining abnormalities.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a disease that a lot of people suffer with in society especially young adults. While it is not a disease that is deadly, it does affect the victim in every day aspects of their life and can ultimately control their lives. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is defined by the National Institute of Mental Health as, “… a common, chronic and long-lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions) that he or she feels the urge to repeat over and over”. The thoughts that individuals have when suffering through Obsessive Compulsive Disorder cannot be restrained and really can disturb the individual. Thoughts or actions that people may have can range from worrying about daily occurrences, such as washing their hands, to having thoughts of harming people that are close to them. People tend to have these reoccurring compulsions because they believe by doing them or thinking them, they will either prevent something bad from happening or because it eliminates stress that they have. This disease can last a lifetime and can be very detrimental and disabling to how one lives their lives. Individuals can start to see signs of OCD in either late adolescence or even early adulthood and everyone is susceptible. When it comes to classifying this incurable disease, there is much debate on whether or not it a type of anxiety (Abramowitz, Taylor, & McKay, 2009). It is important to be able to understand this mental disorder since so many people are diagnosed with it. While there are treatments for OCD, there are no cures yet. Treatments could range anywhere from taking prescribed medication to just going to therapy and counseling fo...
While Matchstick Men depicts Nicholas Cage’s character, Roy, as a person with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder really well; meaning his disorder falls under the four D categories of abnormal psychology, it can be argued that Roy actually does not have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. After Roy dropped his illegally obtained pink pills that resemble Paroxetine for treating OCD, his partner in crime, Frank, suggested he go see a shrink. Dr. Klein disagreed with Roy on him having this disorder, believing it may be something else. It can be argued that Roy had a substance dependency on these pills his previous doctor gave him and believed so deeply that he had a disorder that could only be treated with medicine. Dr. Klein gave Roy vitamins that Roy believed was medication, his symptoms declined while he believed to be taking this medication, exhibiting the placebo effect. Roy’s messy car and habit of smoking and spreading ashes in his car as well as in his home contradict his compulsions and obsessions of cleanliness, although when there is a mess he becomes dysfunctional and