Medical Criteria – O

Medical Criteria – O

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER:

• DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

1. 1. • Presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both

• • • • Obsessions are defi­ned by (1) and (2)
        1. Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and unwanted, and cause marked anxiety or distress in most Individuals
        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; see below)
    • Compulsions are defi­ned by (1) and (2)

• • • • Repetitive behaviours (i.e., Hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (i.e. 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
      • Behaviours mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing anxiety or distress, or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these behaviours or mental acts are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent, or are clearly excessive
• The obsessions or compulsions are time-consuming (i.e., Take >1 h/d) or cause clinically signi­ficant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning
• The obsessive-compulsive symptoms are not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance or another medical condition
• The disturbance is not better explained by the symptoms of another mental disorder

* Specifi­ers: with good or fair insight, with poor insight, with absent insight/delusional beliefs, tic-related

Also read:

1. Criteria in GPNotebook
2. Criteria in NICE
3. Criteria in Statpearls