PSC 168 Lecture 84: PSC 168: 10/16/17
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Compulsion: going to police and wanting to give them their info/ fingerprints just in case they do something. Ex: things aren"t organized, pic isn"t straight. Need to perform acts to reduce anxiety. More you do the act, the more difficult to remember if you do it. More you give into compulsion, more chronic anxiety is. 50% chance you"ll get ocd if your twin has it. Repeating an act can lead to irregularities in body. Rapunzel disorder - hairball, body issues by consuming hair. Time when people begin to consider body image. Dissociative flashbacks - body is in state of remembered event, not in. Ex: touch dirty dishes, then use dirty hands to do other acts. Ex: force person to think about obsessions for long time. If you stay in anxious state for longer, it will decrease within time - it will habituate. Suppressing a thought increases the power of the obsession. Person with ocd gets frightened by their thoughts.
