What is Obsessive-compulsive disorder?
What is Obsessive-compulsive disorder?
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Behavioral disorder with obsessive thoughts and compulsive acts.
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder: An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent, persistent obsessions or compulsions. Obsessions are the intrusive ideas, thoughts, or images that are experienced as senseless or repugnant. Compulsions are repetitive and seemingly purposeful behavior which the individual generally recognizes as senseless and from which the individual does not derive pleasure although it may provide a release from tension.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Introduction
Types of Obsessive-compulsive disorder:
Broader types of Obsessive-compulsive disorder:
How many people get Obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Prevalance of Obsessive-compulsive disorder: 3.3 million adult Americans (NIMH); 2.3% adults (NIMH); 1 in 50 people (NWHIC); 2.4% adults (USSG)
Prevalance Rate of Obsessive-compulsive disorder: approx 1 in 82 or 1.21% or 3.3 million people in USA [about data]
Incidence (annual) of Obsessive-compulsive disorder: 2.3% adults annualy (NIMH)
Incidence Rate of Obsessive-compulsive disorder: approx 1 in 43 or 2.30% or 6.3 million people in USA [about data]
Prevalance of Obsessive-compulsive disorder:
OCD afflicts about 3.3 million adult Americans. (Source: excerpt from Anxiety Disorders: NIMH)
Incidence of Obsessive-compulsive disorder: About 2.3% of the U.S. population ages 18 to 54 - approximately 3.3
million Americans - has OCD in a given year.
(Source: excerpt from Facts about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: NIMH)
Who gets Obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Patient Profile for Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Usually starts in childhood (about a third), adolescence, or early adulthood. About a third start in childhood.
Profile for Obsessive-compulsive disorder: OCD strikes men and women in approximately equal numbers and afflicts
roughly 1 in 50 people. It can appear in childhood, adolescence, or
adulthood, but on the average, it first shows up in the teens or early
adulthood. A third of adults with OCD experience their first symptoms as
children. (Source: excerpt from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: NWHIC)
How serious is Obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Prognosis of Obsessive-compulsive disorder: The course of the disease is variable -- symptoms may come and
go, they may ease over time, or they can grow progressively worse. (Source: excerpt from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: NWHIC)
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OCD generally responds well to treatment with medications or carefully
targeted psychotherapy. (Source: excerpt from Anxiety Disorders: NIMH)
What causes Obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Causes of Obsessive-compulsive disorder: see causes of Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Risk factors for Obsessive-compulsive disorder:
see
risk factors for Obsessive-compulsive disorder
What are the symptoms of Obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Symptoms of Obsessive-compulsive disorder:
see symptoms of Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Can anyone else get Obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Inheritance:
see inheritance of Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Obsessive-compulsive disorder:
see treatments for Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Research for Obsessive-compulsive disorder:
see research for Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Society issues for Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Costs of Obsessive-compulsive disorder: $8.4 billion in 1990 in social and economic losses in the USA (NIMH)
Costs of Obsessive-compulsive disorder: OCD cost the U.S. $8.4 billion in 1990 in social and economic
losses, nearly 6% of the total mental health bill of $148 billion.
(Source: excerpt from Facts about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: NIMH)
Hospitalization statistics for Obsessive-compulsive disorder:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Obsessive-compulsive disorder:
- 0.006% (716) of hospital consultant episodes were for obsessive-compulsive disorder in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 96% of hospital consultant episodes for obsessive-compulsive disorder required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 54% of hospital consultant episodes for obsessive-compulsive disorder were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 46% of hospital consultant episodes for obsessive-compulsive disorder were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 61% of hospital consultant episodes for obsessive-compulsive disorder required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 50.9 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for obsessive-compulsive disorder in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 21 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for obsessive-compulsive disorder in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Obsessive-compulsive disorder:
Organs and body systems related to Obsessive-compulsive disorder include:
Name and Aliases of Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Main name of condition: Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Class of Condition for Obsessive-compulsive disorder: behavior
Other names or spellings for Obsessive-compulsive disorder:
OCD, obsessive compulsive neurosis
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