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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sonya Gelfand, Kiran Singh, M.D. [2]

Overview

The diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder is based on clinical assessment. Obsessive compulsive disorder is diagnosed according to the DSM-V guidelines, by the presence of obsessions, compulsions or both. The symptoms must be time consuming, causing significant impairment of normal life activities and not being associated with a psychological disorder or substance abuse. Lastly, the symptoms must not fall into any other category of mental disorders to classify them as an obsessive compulsive disorder.[1][2]

Diagnostic Criteria

DSM-V Diagnostic Criteria for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder[1]

  • Obsessions are defined by (1) and (2):
  • 1. Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced, at sometime during the disturbance, as intrusive and unwanted, and that in most individuals cause marked anxiety or distress.
  • 2. The individual attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, urges, or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action (i.e., by performing a compulsion).
  • Compulsions are defined by (1) and (2):
  • 1. Repetitive behaviors (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e.g. praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the individual 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 anxiety or distress,or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these behaviors or mental acts are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent, or are clearly excessive.

Note: Young children may not be able to articulate the aims of these behaviors or mental acts.

AND

  • B. The obsessions or compulsions are time-consuming (e.g., take more than 1 hour per day) or cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

AND

  • C. The obsessive-compulsive symptoms are not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or another medical condition.

AND

Specify if:

  • With good or fair insight: The individual recognizes that obsessive-compulsive disorder beliefs are definitely or probably not true or that they may or may not be true.
  • With poor insight: The individual thinks obsessive-compulsive disorder beliefs are probably true.
  • With absent insight/delusional beliefs: The individual is completely convinced that obsessive-compulsive disorder beliefs are true.

Specify if:

  • Tic-related: The individual has a current or past history of a tic disorder.

Common Obsessions and Related Compulsions in OCD:

Obsessions Related Compulsions
Fear of contamination Repeated cleaning or washing
Continuous doubting Repeated checking
Thoughts that are violent

or sexual

Repeated thoughts of "undoing"
Fear of inflicting injury to

others

Repeatedly actions to check for

injured indivuials

Prsesnce of symmetry Repeated rearrangement and

reordering

Religious scurpulosity Repeated religious acts
Superstitions related to

"luck"

Repeated superstitions to invite

luck

+Adopted from JAMA[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5. Washington, D.C: American Psychiatric Association. 2013. ISBN 0890425558.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Hirschtritt ME, Bloch MH, Mathews CA (2017). "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment". JAMA. 317 (13): 1358–1367. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.2200. PMID 28384832.

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