Animal hoarding is an obsession that is growing in victims and recognition throughout the world today. The typical animal hoarder has a serious psychological condition called obsessive compulsive disorder. Animal hoarders also may be suffering from different kinds of addictions‚ delusional disorder‚ attachment disorder‚ dementia‚ and even zoophilia. These people feel they have the responsibility to keep and care for an overabundant amount of animals‚ thinking that they are helping these creatures
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disposophbia‚ also known as hoarding. Obsessive-compulsive disorder/hoarding has always interested me. These people take collecting to an unhealthy level. Ariel is the perfect example of a Hoarder. Hoarding is not currently considered an illness on its own right. Compulsive hoarding has been treated as symptom or subtype of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Cluttergone). About 15% of people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder report compulsive hoarding as their major problem. It usually will
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Understanding OCD The understanding of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Kaylyn Trawick Montgomery High School Everyday many adults‚ teens‚ and even children suffer with anxiety disorders not everyone fully understands. The thoughts and the ticks that make one able to go on with their daily lives are vital when it comes to ones sanity. As a kid I never knew washing your hands so many times‚ walking only in certain spots‚ or only being able to stay on one side of a the person you were walking with
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Rhetorical Analysis Laurie Schutza’s essay‚ “The Pack Rat Among Us” gives the readers a view of what a hoarder is like physically and mentally. A hoarder is a person who gets too attached to personal items that he/she cannot get rid of over the course of their lifetime. This causes the hoarders to have stacks of random things that must people would have disposed of. “Hoarders tend to keep what many may consider useless items such as empty food containers or cardboard boxes” (Schutza 306).
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in the Western societies will be diagnosable with any anxiety disorder in their lifetime (National Institute of Mental Health‚ 2005). In this essay will simply declare obsessive compulsive disorder which is the main anxiety disorder. Afterwards‚ compare and contrast two aetiology theories of OCD. The obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disorder characterized either by obsessions or by compulsions. Obsessions are intrusive and recurring thoughts or images that individual finds disturbing and
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“hoarder or compulsive hoarding.” What is hoarding? “Compulsive hoarding is a specific type of behavior marked by acquiring and failing to throw out a large number of items that would appear to have little or no value to others‚ severe cluttering of the person’s home so that it is no longer able to function as a viable living space‚ and significant distress or impairment of work or social life (Kelly Owen).” In addition to obtaining excessive amounts of items‚ many people with compulsive hoarding often
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horrible might happen. After Macbeth had gone to war‚ she had exhibited these behaviors performing various actions such as reading and trying to cleanse her hands of imaginary blood. The trauma of assisting in committing a murder has given her a compulsive desire to wash her hands to try to ease her guilt pangs. With more knowledge of this disorder in the past‚ it would’ve been very simple
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ECT TREATMENT REFLECTION PAPER Today I was able to familiarize myself with indication‚ contraindications and nursing care of ECT patient before‚ during and after the procedures. ECT is a medical treatment for severe mental illness in which a small‚ carefully controlled amount of electricity is introduced into the brain. This electrical stimulation‚ used in conjunction with anesthesia like propofol and muscle relaxant medications like saxicoline‚ produces a mild generalized seizure or convulsion
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Abstract The relationship between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) has not yet been fully clarified. The aim of the present study was to analyze DSM-IV OCPD prevalence rates in OCD and panic disorder (PD) patients to test for the specificity of the OCPD-OCD link‚ and to compare them to OCPD prevalence in a control group of subjects without any psychiatric disorder. A total of 109 patients with a principal diagnosis of DSM-IV (SCID-I) OCD and
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explains how there was one time when only the wealthy used to be able to afford materialistic nonessentials but now that food and material are sufficient; we have just developed problems of greed (Schutza 256). Frost‚ Steketee‚ and Williams defined compulsive buying as chronic‚ repetitive purchasing behavior‚ in response to negative events and/or feelings‚ that is difficult to stop and
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