Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Case Study

This issue resonates with me because of the experience I have with OCD in my family. My 16-year-old sister has always been anxious, but I knew something was wrong when she texted me one day at school saying she couldn’t walk. Upon finding her, I learned that the tiles on the floors made her feel like she was drowning. Overtime, she could no longer walk into the school. Watching her try to navigate the floors with her shaky legs and teary eyes hurt my heart. Eventually she couldn't walk across our own kitchen floor. It got so bad that our family could not go anywhere without knowing what the floor looked like first. The only acceptable floors were carpets with no patterns or a certain wood. She told me about the terrifying, intrusive thoughts

It cannot be removed, however it can be understood and handled. The process of treating someone with OCD is a long one. Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) which is a therapy used by mental health therapists to treat psychological disorders. In ERP specifically, the individual first exposes the unwanted thoughts and ideas that makes them feel anxious. Then, the individual must make the choice to not follow through on the compulsive behavior they have just triggered. Confronting obsessions and not acting on the following compulsions is not easy. But associating those obsessions with things other than compulsive behaviors proves to be successful in reshaping OCD. ERP is the leading therapy to treat individuals who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder. This being so, ERP is also something that a lot of people are reluctant to try. The thoughts that enter a mind with OCD are never filtered and can be very disturbing at times. The idea of confronting those thoughts can be scary. Even worse, the idea of holding back the compulsions that come with those thoughts can be terrifying. Depending on the person, obsessions and compulsions are commonly associated with the idea that if a certain compulsion is not completed, then someone is in danger. For my sister, she believed that if she stepped on a line in the tiles, her entire family was in danger. She knew it was ridiculous,

Emma, a 16-year-old high school student, has gone through more than you and I can fathom. Her OCD still controls her today, but differently than it did two years ago. Emma feels as though people romanticize the idea of having OCD, because they see it as neat and organized for the aesthetic. They see the qualities of the disorder as desirable because they don't understand what the disorder really consists of. The inaccurate depiction of obsessive compulsive disorder makes Emma feel like she's searching for attention as though she isn't suffering at all. She ended our discussion by saying, "OCD is classified as a disorder for a reason – it's debilitating. I don't prefer to clean my room for x number of hours, I feel as though I have to. It's not easy to deal with and it isn't something that everyone has a little bit of. Every time someone makes a joke about it, it just contributes to the minimization of the actual effects of the disorder, and it makes me along with many other people feel invalidated". Society today has misconstrued the definition and use of the condition. It has become a mainstream term used as an adjective to describe organized preferences. It is insulting to the people who involuntarily suffer. Imagine how it feels to have someone undermine and invalidate but at the same time desire the qualities you wish nothing but to get rid