Diagnostic criteria and codes - obsessive-compulsive and related disorders

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What are the obsessive-compulsive and related disorders?

  • obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • body dysmorphic disorder
  • hoarding disorder
  • trichotillomania
  • excoriation disorder
  • S/M-I OCD
  • OCD due to another medical condition
  • other specified OCD

What is criteria A for OCD?

Presence or obsessions, compulsions or both.
  • Obsessions= recurrent and persistent thoughts , urges, or images that are experienced as intrusive unwanted, causing distress or anxiety. The individual attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts etc. or to neutralize them with another thought or action.
  • Compulsions= repetitive behaviour or mental acts that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rules that must be applied rigidly. The behaviours or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing anxiety or distress, or preventing some dreaded event or situation. In reality not connected or excessive. 

What is criteria D for OCD?

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What is criteria C for hoarding disorder?

Results in accumulation of possessions that congest and clutter living area. (If living areas are unclutterd. It is only due to interventions of third parties

Specifiers for hoarding disorder?

Specify if:
  • with excessive acquisition of items that are not needed, or for which there is no space.
Specify if:
  • With good or fair insight: The individual recognizes that beliefs and behaviors are problematic.
  • With poor insight: The individual is mostly convinced that and behaviors are not problematic despite evidence to the contrary.
  • With absent insight/delusional beliefs: The individual is completely convinced that beliefs and behaviors are not problematic despite evidence to the contrary. 

What is criteria A for trichotillomania?

Recurrent pulling out of one’s hair, resulting in hair loss.

What is criteria E for trichotillomania?

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What is criteria A for S/M-I OCD?

Obsessions, compulsions, skin picking, hair pulling, other body-focused repetitive behaviors, or other symptoms characteristic of the obsessive-compulsive and related disorders predominate in the clinical picture.

What is criteria C for S/M-I OCD?

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What are other specified OCD and related disorder?

  1. Body dysmorphic disorder with actual flaws
  2. Body dysmorphic-like disorder without repetitive behaviour
  3. Body-focused repetitive behaviour disorder (nail biting , lip biting)
  4. Obsessional jealousy
  5. Shubo-kyofu (similar to BDD and is characterized by fear of having a deformity)
  6. koro (sudden fear that the penis or nipples/vulva will retract into the body, leading to death)
  7. Jikoshu-kyofy (fear of having offensive body odor)

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