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"Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistant anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety." -Myers​
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Criteria for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
A. Either obsessions or compulsions:
1. Recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress.
2. The thoughts, impulses, or images are not simply excessive worries about real-life problems.
3. The person attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, impulses, or images or to neutralize them with some other thought or
action.
4. The person recognizes that the obsessional thoughts, impulses, or images are a product of his or her own mind.
B. Compulsions as defined by (1) and (2):
1. Repetitive behaviors (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts that the person feels driven to perform in response to
an obsession, or according to rules that must be applied rigidly.
2. The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing stress or preventing some dreaded situation.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
A. The person has been exposed to a traumatic event in which both of the following were present:
1. The person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or
serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others.
2. The person’s response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror.
B. The traumatic event is persistently re-experienced in one or more of the following ways:
1. Recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the event, including images, thoughts, or perceptions.
2. Recurrent distressing dreams without recognizable content.
3. Acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were reucurring (includes a sense of reliving the experience, illusions, hallucinations,
and dissociative flashback episodes, including those that occur on awakening or when intoxicated).
4. Intense psychological distress at exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic
event.
5. Physiological reactivity on exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event.
C. Persistent symptoms of increased arousal (not present before the trauma), as indicated by two (or more) of the
following:
1. Difficulty falling or staying asleep
2. Irritability or outbursts of anger
3. Difficulty concentrating
4. Hyper vigilance
5. Exaggerated startled response