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What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, what are the underlying mechanisms…

- - - - Persistent & intrusive thoughts, urges or images
      - Attempts to ignore or neutralise such thoughts or urges
    - - Repetitive behavior or mental acts in response to obsession
      - Acts are aimed at reducing distress of dreaded situation
- - - - No differences related to sex or age
      - Both are related to mood
      - Same form & content
    - - Frequency
      - Duration
      - Intensity
      - Consequences
      - Higher urge to neutralise thoughts
      - Abnormal causes more distress & discomfort
      - More difficult to evoke obsession from instruction in non-clinicals
  - - - Same form
      - Common in both clinical & non-clinical
      - Same content
    - - OCD display more; washing, ordering, cleaning
      - Healthy display more; 'magical protective behaviour'
      - More frequent
      - More intense & discomfort
      - Longer duration
      - More associated with negative effect
  - - - Attempt to simplify/ control environment better
      - Evolutionary --> help survival
- - - - Thinking about it will make it occur faster
    - - Morally unacceptable thoughts are equally as bad as acting on them
- - - - Imaginary
      - Interoceptive
      - In vivo
    - - Hierarchy of threat & exposure
      - Understanding negative impact of avoidance
      - Information
    - - Within-session habituation
      - Activation of fear structure
      - Between-session habituation
  - - - Fear structure must be activated
      - New information must be available
- - - - Danger hypothesis
        
        Danger will follow, if "said" action isn't completed
        
        Fear of guilt (dangerous outcome over-emphasized)
        
        Prudential mindset
      - Safety hypothesis
        
        Safety will follow, if "said" action is completed
        
        Healthier state of mind