Sunday, February 12, 2012
OCD
Today in class we watched a documentary that followed two individuals that suffered from OCD. Tell me what where their compulsions and rituals are, give examples from the documentary of how they reduced their anxiety, and what effects this disease had on their life as well as others that were close to them. Also explain Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Exposure Therapy.
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Samantha Bruner
Today in class we watched the show Obsessed. There was a guy who had a compulsion dealing with his daily richuals like locking the door and brushing his teeth. His rituals included washing his hair in the shower,locking the door, brushing his teeth, kissing his dog, and putting his deodorant on. He reduced his anxiety by preforming the tasks like checking his locks four times, kissing his dog twelve times, and applying his deodorant twenty one times to each arm. OCD effected his life because he had to get up early to be able to finish all his daily rituals in time to leave. it also affected his wife's life because he made her join in on his rituals by repeating stuff back to him. The girl on Obsessed had a compulsion dealing with food (really meat), and picking her face. Her rituals included burning her meat so that it is basically char coaled, or just not eating the meat, and picking at her face with tweezers and things until her skin was tore off. She reduced her anxiety by preforming her rituals, like picking at her face for hours. OCD effected her life because she would waste time messing with her face and be late, and she was effected because she wouldn't eat meat at a restaurant or her boyfriend made for her. It effected her boyfriends life the most because all he wanted to do was cook a good meal for her, but every time he would she wouldn't eat it. That would hurt his feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is psychological disorders, as with all behaviors is learned. Exposure Therapy is when a a therapist exposes a person with OCD to their disorder and try to help them fix it.
Today during psychology class we watched the show “obsessed.” During this episode of Obsessed, a man and women were dealing with OCD or also known as obsessive compulsive disorder. Compulsion is a strong urge to do an activity. The man suffers with a compulsive disorder involving locking the door to his home before leaving to go anywhere. His rituals in dealing with these compulsions are things such as kissing his dog, putting on deodorant and brushing his teeth. To reduce his anxiety of these irritable compulsions, he checks his door for almost an hour; he kisses his dog a dozen times and also applies deodorant twenty one times to each arm. This disorder put a strain on both his life and his wife’s life. His wife has helped her husband in helping him ease his mind by doing these compulsive things as well as delaying where they go because of the time it takes to do these rituals several times a day. The couple if forced to realize that they have to change their life style for their baby that is on the way.
The woman on this episode suffered with a compulsive disorder of eating things with meat as well as scraping her face because she didn’t think feel as if it were clean. The rituals the woman participated in to get over these compulsive acts were to not eat anything with meat or to literally burn it to a crisp and also to take tweezers to her face and pick her skin off to make herself feel “clean.” The woman’s obsessive compulsive disorders affected her life because she would waste so much time of picking at her skin. Not only did it affect her life but it also affected her boyfriend’s life. He always prepared meals for them both to eat but she would refuse on eating them because of her compulsion against meat and it would cause friction between their relationships making her boyfriend become less patient with her and because nothing he cooked was up to her standards. Cognitive behavioral therapy shows how important it is in how we think in what we feel and what we do. Exposure therapy is to show the person their feared object to help them overcome their anxiety or excessive compulsion.
_TAYLOR JONES_
Christa and Ryan on Obsessed both had OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder. From this disorder each individual experienced compulsions and rituals that affected their lives and others around them. Christa’s compulsions were picking her face because she thought stuff was in it and not being able to eat meat because she was afraid it was going to taint her body. To get rid of the obsessive thoughts, Christa performed rituals such as standing in front of the mirror for hours with a pair of tweezers to her face, or simply not eating the food that was given to her because of her anxieties that it will make her sick. Because of this disorder, Christa is making her husband upset because he does not want to see her hurt herself. Ryan’s compulsions were kissing his dog, locking the door, putting on deodorant a certain number of times, and taking showers a specific way all because he did not want to change the way things were so that he could avoid hurting something else. To cope with his fears, Ryan has certain rituals that he performs such as counting his actions and doing things over and over again to make sure they are the way that he wants them. Ryan is hurting his wife because he includes her in his rituals and is afraid one day he will include their baby in them as well. To help fight the disorder Ryan and Christa go through cognitive behavioral therapy and exposure therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy is treatment through discussing the underlying reasons for the anxieties experienced. Exposure therapy is treatment through performing the exact task that is feared to help overcome the obstacle.
Today in class we watched the show Obsessed. During this episode of Obsessed, a man and women were dealing with OCD or also known as obsessive compulsive disorder. Compulsion is a strong urge to do an activity. The man of the show always did something a certain amount of times as his ritual such as locking the door and checking it ten or so times. He would also kiss his dog about ten times so the dog would know he loved him. Also just the little things he would have to count like brushing his teeth or closing the refridge door. This affected him because he had to get up early to do all of these rituals and also dragged his wife into it. The woman was anxious about the imperfections on her face and use tweezers to remove them. She was also anxious about food and would only eat packaged food or food she prepared herself. The man reduced anxiety by checking everything a certain amount of times or doing it said amount of times and the woman picked at her face because it made her feel in control. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is psychological disorders, as with all behaviors is learned. Exposure Therapy is when a a therapist exposes a person with OCD to their disorder and try to help them fix it.
-Shaun McCool
In class we watched an episode of the show obsessed. Ryan and crista were two individuals that had OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder. Crista's compulsions were thinking that she had stuff on her face and not eating certain foods because she was afraid it would make her sick. Her rituals to decrease the anxiety from these compulsions were to cook the food until it was charcoal burnt or just not eat it at all and then she would pick at her face to try and get the "blemishes" to go away. Ryan's compulsions were kissing his dog, washing his hair in the shower, locking the doors, brushing his teeth, and putting on deodorant. His rituals that he did to reduce his anxiety were checking the doors multiple times to make sure it is locked, washing his hair a certain way, kissing his dog a certain number of times, brushing his teeth a certain way, and putting on deodorant a certain number of times. Crista and Ryan are both hurting themselves because they are not living an enjoyable life because they are always dealing with bad anxiety. Cognitive behavioral therapy is when you sit down with someone and talk about what you are going through and try to get to the bottom of your issues. Exposure therapy is when you are "forced" to do the exact task that you do not like to do. For example, when crista had to eat the meat at the mexican restaurant she had to overcome her fear that it was going to make her sick.
In class we watched an episode of Obsessed dealing with OCD. OCD is also known as Obsessive Compulsion Disorder. This disorder causes people to have compulsions and rituals they seem to complete everyday. Ryan had the compulsion to check the door many times to make sure it was locked, make sure the refrigerator was closed, kiss his dog many times, and a few other things. Doing these things many times and even for hours sometimes, reduced his anxiety and reassured him that doors were closed and locked and he loved his dog very much. Crista’s compulsions were picking at her face with tweezers for many hours and not eating meat or other things because she thought they weren’t healthy. She did this because she said it took away her stress and she thought the more she picked at her face the cleaner it was. Both Ryan and Crista are hurting themselves and others. They are hurting themselves because they are taking time out of their lives to do these rituals and are always dealing with anxiety. They are hurting others because they aren’t paying attention to people who are important like their spouses and soon children. Cognitive behavioral therapy is talking to someone to try and figure out the original cause of their anxiety causing their OCD. Exposure therapy is when you are required to do what you do not want to do to overcome your fear.
In class we watched a documentary on people suffering from OCD, obsessive complusive disorder. Ryan would count everything he did in the morning and checking everything multiple times. This took up a lot of time in the mornings, which affected his life. Repeating these tasks over and over again was a way to keep his anxiey level down. He also brought his wife into by having her repeat things over and over as a reassurance for himself. Christa, the woman in the documentary, was a picker and had anxiety over food. She did not trust any type of food, in particular meats and food that has been sitting out for a long period of time. Her fiance was scared to cook for her because she was so critical about the meat. She also did not like the way she looked, so she would stand in front of the mirror and dig into her skin, picking off bits and pieces. This changed the way she did everyday life, but it also affected he fiance's life. He had to in a sense ignore things that she would says to him because they were so harsh. In the documentary, each persons therapist used 2 methods, Cognitive behavioral therapy and Exposure therapy. Cognitive Behavioral therapy is where a patient sits down and talks about reasons and causes why they are this way and certain behaviors. Exposure therapy is when the therapist points out the OCD behaviors and corrects them by doing the correct simple task over and over again, reinforcing the correct behaviors.
OCD is a disorder where a person without outside help preforms certain actions repeatedly out of anxiety for future events usually. Compulsions are the anxiety and the rituals is how the person acts on the anxiety. Ryan has the anxiety of being uncertain about actions hes just done. He also has about an hour long morning ritual of getting ready for the day. He brushes his teeth and puts on deodorant a set number of times. He also kisses his dog a set number of times so he knows that the dog loves him. Ryan also has to check his door to make sure its locked multiple times and make sure the refrigerator is closed by pushing against it multiple times. Ryan's version of exposure therapy was for him to be able to brush his teeth normally and be able to lock the door and not check it at all. Exposure therapy is facing the fear directly. Ryan wanted to do this because his behavior drove his wife crazy. He would have her repeat the plans for the day multiple times and he also does not want his child to pick up on his habits. Christa's anxiety was that her face was always dirty and she is afraid to eat meat or any food that she feels has any impurity because she fears that she will get deathly ill. Her fiance is affected by this because he doesn't want her to rip out her face and he also doesn't want to have to burn food just to get her to eat it. Christa was forced to eat at a buffet where meat had been sitting out for hours. Christa was also forced to sit in her bathroom and not pick at her face so she could just let time pass and not think about it. Christa wanted to have this therapy because she didn't want to die later from not eating or cause more complicated problems for her face later in life.
OCD is a disorder that effects many people all over the world. In obsessed, we watched two people who had severe OCD. The guy compulsively felt the need to lock his doors, kiss his dog,and make sure the fridge was shut. He would solve these compulsive needs temporarily but repeating the act over and over again. He reduced his anxiety for a short time, but after he sought help from a therapist, his anxiety was reduced excessively. It would take this name a very long time to leave the house, and his wife would get annoyed when he would have her repeat their schedules. He was treated with Cognitive Behavioral therapy which states that all behavior is learned.
The next person we looked at was a woman who had the compulsive need to pick her face. She also wouldn't eat a lot of food because she was afraid of the germs. She would fix her compulsions by picking the skin off of her face which would leave open sores. She also wouldn't eat properly because "it's just not worth it." It reduced her anxiety for a short time until she also looked for treatment; Even after treatment she was hesitant to eat. Her negative outcomes of her problem was that she was sickly skinny and had sores on her face. She affected her boyfriend, Shaun,in negative ways. He struggled with taking her problem personally. He would feel hurt that she wouldn't want to eat his food or that she was picking her face all the time. This woman was treated with Exposure Therapy by being taking to a nasty mexican restaurant. Exposure Therapy is having the patient "face their fears."
Megan Eastergard
Cognitive Behavioral therapy is a psychological disorder that is learned along with other behaviors. Exposure Therapy is when the therapist exposes the person with the OCD behavior problem to what they do and try to help them overcome their OCD. In class we watched a movie that should people with OCD and how they show their symptoms. Their extremes ranged from a constant counting method to brushing their teeth, washing their hair in the shower, kissing their pets so many times before they leave their home for various reasons, to picking at their faces because they fill that it is infested with germs. One of the OCD victims hated to eat anything that was open or exposed, basically nothing that was not prepared by her. The way to get her out of that state of mind was to force her to eat the food and explain to her that nothing wrong will happen in her life. these individuals allowed their compulsions to dictate there life so much that there spouses had a hard time meeting their OCD couples’ rituals. The women that was married to the OCD male that constantly kissed his pet and checked the door of the refrigerator to make sure it was closed felt that sometimes her husband would make her repeat the daily agenda like she was five years old instead of their partner . The couples on both of the OCD victims worked with their spouses and stayed to conform in their rituals in all ways as possible.
Gabriella borden
Cognitive Behavioral therapy is a psychological disorder that is learned along with other behaviors. Exposure Therapy is when the therapist exposes the person with the OCD behavior problem to what they do and try to help them overcome their OCD. In class we watched a movie that should people with OCD and how they show their symptoms. Their extremes ranged from a constant counting method to brushing their teeth, washing their hair in the shower, kissing their pets so many times before they leave their home for various reasons, to picking at their faces because they fill that it is infested with germs. One of the OCD victims hated to eat anything that was open or exposed, basically nothing that was not prepared by her. The way to get her out of that state of mind was to force her to eat the food and explain to her that nothing wrong will happen in her life. these individuals allowed their compulsions to dictate there life so much that there spouses had a hard time meeting their OCD couples’ rituals. The women that was married to the OCD male that constantly kissed his pet and checked the door of the refrigerator to make sure it was closed felt that sometimes her husband would make her repeat the daily agenda like she was five years old instead of their partner . The couples on both of the OCD victims worked with their spouses and stayed to conform in their rituals in all ways as possible.
Gabriella Borden
Today we watched a show called obsessed. The episode we watched dealt with two people suffering from different types of OCD. They both have compulsuions, or a strong urge to do something, and the compulsions hold them back in life. Ryans OCD dealt with all sorts of daily rituals that hindered him from living a "normal" life. For instance, he would kiss his dog 24 to 26 times before leaving every day, and upon locking the door, he would continue to check and recheck the lock until he was completely satisfied. His morning rituals took him an hour and a half to complete. These and other rituals helped alleviate his stress and make him feel safe and secure, like he was in control. Not only do the rituals effect his life, but also his pregnant wife who is sometimes coerced into performing different aspects of the rituals with Ryan. This adds stress to their marriage, and also causes Ryan to have to get up extra early to get to work on time. Christas OCD is an obsession with picking her skin off of her face. She does this because she thinks she sees impurities, and pulling skin off makes her think that she is "fixing" her face. This compulsion not only ruins her skin, but also preoccupys up to two hours at a time. Christa also is =very worried about food being tainted. This worry hinders her from eating any meat that is not completely burned, and most other foods that are not pre packaged. This hurt her relationship with her boyfriend. He would want to cook her a good meal and spend time with her, and she would just pick her face in the bathroom. Then when it was time to eat, she wouldnt eat the food because she was scared of it being tainted. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a more indirect treatment that is used by discussing the problem and finding the underlying reason of the problem. Exposure therapy is more in your face because you go directly to the problem or fear, and face it head on in order to eventually overcome it for good.
-Ben Small
In class, we watched a show that dealt with OCD, or obsessive compulsive disorder. Ryan had OCD with almost everything in his life. No matter what he did, he had to either tap, count, or do other things to check and see what he did was correct. It varied from how many strokes of deodorant he would put on, to how many times he would kiss his dog. The girl had more of a concentrated problem focused on cleanliness. She thought she had dirt particles on her face, and she had to “excavate” it off her face by picking and other types of dirt removal. These things effected Ryan because it would take him about an hour and a half to get out of the house in the morning, when it would normally take about half an hour or less. The girls compulsions effected her because when focusing on dirt and other things on a microscopic level, she never ate any meat, or mostly anything else that was not already packaged, and her friend was a chef, so it was hard for him to cook for her because she was too picky all the time. Cognitive Behavioral Theory is where a patient sits down and talks about reasons and causes why they are this way and certain behaviors. Exposure Theory is when someone sits down the “patient” and shows them what is wrong by using examples, or making them do something.
In class we watched the show Obsessed. In this episode there were two people with OCD, also known as obsessive compulsive disorder. These people suffer with compulsions, or a strong urge to do something. The man who has OCD in this episode has an urge to check to see if his door is locked many times before leaving, because he is paranoid and anxious. The man’s rituals are putting an exact number of swipes of deodorant on, washing his hair a certain way, kissing his dog 12 times before he leaves and making sure the fridge is closed over and over again. His OCD affects his life negatively because it takes hours for him to get ready just to leave the house and his fear of the door being unlocked causes stress and anxiety in his life. The woman on the episode also has OCD. Her compulsives were not eating any meat because she thought it was unsanitary. She also picked her face a lot because she thought it was unsanitary also. Her rituals were eating meat that looked like charcoal and literally picking skin off her face. Her OCD affected her life because she was hurting and scaring her own face by picking at it so much and she was not getting good nutrition because of the lack of food she ate.
In the documentary “Obsessed,” Christa and Ryan shared their problems with the OCD they each suffer from. Christa had the compulsion to constantly pick at her skin for hours at a time to get the dirt out because she was paranoid to have dirt in her skin. She also had the compulsion to never really eat meat unless it was completely cooked, almost like charcoal. Her rituals included standing in front of her mirror in her bathroom and picking at her skin with tweezers for hours in attempt to get the dirt out. Another ritual was the way in which she approached eating. Most of her food was packaged and she rarely ate meat unless she knew it was safe to eat. Ryan had a very common type of OCD. His compulsions were to check the refrigerator to make sure it was locked, check the door when he left to make sure it was locked, rinse his head a certain way in the shower, kiss his dog before he left, brushing his teeth the same way, and count the number of strokes of deodorant he put on so it was equal on both sides. His rituals took hours to perform, and they included rubbing his hand over the refrigerator door multiple times, twisting the door handle multiple times to check if it was locked, kiss his dog the same amount of times and walk back and do it again to make sure his dog knew he loved him, and getting ready the same way each day, from how he rinsed his hair to the number of strokes of deodorant he applied. Both Christa and Ryan reduced their anxiety by performing their rituals in the exact same way every day. OCD affected both of their lives and the lives around them in negative ways. They were constantly stressing about whether or not their rituals were performed correctly and so much time of their lives was wasted on spending time doing these rituals. Christa’s face was being destroyed from her picking away at it. Each of these two individuals’ spouses had to constantly put up with the stress and be blamed for the OCD. The disease also took much time out of the spouses’ lives as well. Cognitive behavioral therapy is attempting to change the way people think in order to change the way they feel and act. Exposure therapy is exposing an individual to the very thing that he or she fears without any danger in hopes of them overcoming their anxiety.
Meredith Peacock
In last class’s video the two people who suffered from OCD were Christa and Ryan. Christa‘s compulsions consisted of cleaning her face multiple times a day and not eating any food that was exposed for a certain about of time. She performed rituals such as picking her face daily until she had sores on her skin to only eating packaged processed food. During the process of her rituals Christa’s husband was affected. He ate different meals every time they ate or he cooked her food a certain way just so she would eat it. He also had to witness to her abusing herself by picking her face with tweezers and other utensils.
Ryan who also suffered from OCD had compulsions that included doing things over and over again to make sure it is done properly. Ryan’s rituals ranged from locking and re locking the door when he left the house, kissing his dog multiple times before he leaves the house and a daily routine to getting ready in the morning. (Brushing teeth, putting deodorant on, and showering) Ryan included his wife in his rituals as well. He asked her several times to repeat things he had told her over and over again. Both Christa and Ryan undergo Cognitive Behavior therapy which gets to the main reason or cause of the person’s anxiety and Exposure therapy which they had to actually experience the things they feared most to overcome it.
In class as you know we watched a show called "Obsessed". It was about these two individuals that suffered with OCD, which is obsessive compulsive disorder. Christa and Ryan both had many different compulsions and rituals to go along with them. A compulsion is a strong urge to do an activity and a ritual is something done over an over numerous times as apart of daily life. Christa's compulsions were thinking her face was dirty and picking it and also not being able to eat meat because she thought it would make her sickly. She did rituals to decrease her anxiety by picking her face to the point of totally blemishing it and also cooking her meat until it was charcoal. Ryan on the other hand had many different compulsions and rituals. Some of his compulsions were locking his doors, putting deodorant on, and also kissing his dog. The rituals that went along with these compulsions were locking and checking his door multiple times, which usually lasted and hour before he could leave, counting the times he put deodorant on on each side, and also kissing his dog many times because he was afraid if he didn't the dog wouldn't love him anymore. Christa and Ryan's OCD isn't only affecting them but it is also affecting there loved ones as well. For example Ryan's wife, Ryan includes her in his rituals an he is scared that he will include the baby in them as well if he doesn't get help. to try to reduce there anxiety and problems Christa and Ryan go to two different types of therapy. One is called Cognitive behavioral therapy, which is actually sitting down with a therapist and talking out your problems and trying to resolve them. Another type of therapy is called Exposure therapy, which is dealing with the issue straight on by being forced to do the things your OCD prevents you from doing.
-Cambria Trunzo
In psychology, we watched Obsessed. On the show were two individuals who struggled with the psychological disorder of OCD. Ryan had compulsions having to do with things like numbers and how many times he did something. He couldn’t do it just once. For example, before leaving his house, when he would lock the door, he touched it multiple times because he was afraid that the door was going to come open. Also, he had to make sure he kissed his dog more than the usual person does, because he was afraid that if he didn’t, his dog wouldn’t know that he loved him. His ritual consisted of the same thing every day and the tasks had to be completed the same way. In order for Ryan to get his ritual completed, he had to get up really early every morning so that he would have time. His compulsions for counting and doing everything the exact same way, helped him cope with his anxiety and fears. Ryan’s OCD really interfered with his life and with his marriage. His wife, who was pregnant, has to constantly repeat things for him just because he has to hear her say it more than once. The other individual with OCD on Obsessed was Christa. Christa too had compulsions but they were slightly different. Christa had compulsion like, picking her face until she had sores all over it and not eating certain types of food, especially meat. Christa developed the face picking compulsion because she always felt like her face wasn’t clean and there was something in it and she was afraid to eat meat because she felt like it wasn’t clean and that mold could have started to grow on it. So to help her with these fears and to reduce her anxiety, Christa would sit in front of the mirror for hours just pulling off her skin on her face with tweezers and just tearing her face apart. Also, to cope with her fear of eating meat, she would only eat meat that was overcooked, like charcoaled. This disorder not only affected her life, but also her boyfriend. He was so hurt by the fact that she felt like had to tear her face off and whenever he just wanted to cook her a nice meal, he had to make sure the meat was cooked for as long as it possibly could be and that it was burnt to a crisp so that she would eat. Cognitive Therapy is pretty much just sitting and talking about your problems and trying to overcome them just by talking about them. Exposure Therapy is a type of therapy that is basically when you are forced to get over your fears and you are exposed to them and are being forced to door not to do whatever it is that you don’t want to do or that you feel like you have to do.
Kailey McGee
In class monday we watched a video with two people in it who had sever OCD. The guy had obcessions with bruthing his teeth, locking doors, kissing his dog, and many other things. The woman had issues with picking her face to make it clean, and eating foods that she did not prepare or were not prepackaged, or meats that could be under cooked. They reduced their anxiety by just taking a minunite to breath and talk about things before they freaked out. Both of their lives were affected by this, the guy was worried that his pregnant wife would leave him and the girl was worred that she would have no one in her life to be with. Or that she would kill herself. Conitive behavior is that all behaviors are learned. Exposure Therapy is when the people had to do the things they feard. The theropists forced them into doing things they fearded. to overover the anxiety.
Morgan Ward
Today in class we watched an episode of the show "Obsessed". It showed two different people and how OCD affected their life. The first victim of OCD was this girl who had a problem with picking and cutting blemishes and dirt out of her face. She thought that her face was covered in dirt and bacteria and wanted to get all of it off possible. Her problem increased over time. Her ritual was everyday and could last for hours. It affected her fiance in a way of pushing him away, and spent more time with her rituals then with him. She was very defensive at times, and could not even eat most things because she was afraid it would be covered in mold.
The next victim on this show was a man who "tapped". He would tap his fridge a certain amount of times after he opened or closed it. He had to check his lock on the door over and over again to make sure it was locked and many other things. This affected his fiance in a negative way as well, it was really hard on her to see someone she loved live like this.
Anxiety was the main reason both of these people used rituals.
The way they got over them was by working with therapists, and doing different techniques like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Exposure Therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is when the thearapist tries to help the person choose to act and live in a way that does not involve their rituals. Exposure Therapy is when the therapist exposes them to their fears and tries to make them conquer it.
~Brooke Boatwright
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