Mental Illness
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by Evan Takahashi
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- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Definition: A mental illness is a health condition that changes a person's thinking, feelings or behavior and that causes the person distress and difficulty in functioning.
- Signs & Symptoms: An individual that has obsessions (recurs again and again; persistent thoughts) and/or compulsions (repetitive behaviors and rituals)
- Current Treatments: usually treated with psychotherapy, medication or both
- Prevalance: affects about 2.2 million adults
- Age of Onset: childhood or teen yrs.
- most diagnosed by age 19
- Bibliography: http://www.nimh.nih.gov
- 1. Symptoms are typically unexplainable 2. OCD is usually diagnosed along with anxiety, mood swings, depression, aggression, irritability and oppositional behaviors, etc 3. Typically runs in the family 4. Can't control unwanted thoughts and behaviors
- by Evan T.
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