Historically considered a manifestation of obsessive-compulsive disorder or a feature of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, hoarding disorder is now under consideration as a distinct diagnostic category for the DSM-5. The key features of hoarding are difficulty discarding or parting with possessions...
(DSM-IV-TR). These disorders are characterized by an inability to resist the impulse to perform an action that is harmful to one’s self or others. The diagnostic category consists of the following disorders:trichotillomania,intermittent explosive disorder,pathological gambling,kleptomania, and...
1. Discuss the common elements of each of the three disorders covered in this section: obsessive-compulsive disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, and hoarding disorder. Answers 1. Each of the three disorders is characterized by repetitive thoughts and urges, as well as an uncontrollable need to ...
Hoarding OCD is now actually recognized as its own diagnosis in the DSM-5. When someone hoards, they collect items that typically don’t have much value. Magazines, notes, clothing, games, containers — a hoarder may keep so many of these items, their home becomes virtually unlivable as ...
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), [2] includes a new chapter for OCD and related disorders, including body dysmorphic disorder, hoarding disorder, trichotillomania, and excoriation disorder. Previously, OCD was grouped together with...
While OCD is equally present in males and females in adulthood (although some studies have found much higher rates in females), the disorder is heavily male in pediatric patients. There are some differences in comorbidity as well. Among men, hoarding symptoms are most often associated with GAD ...
obsessive-compulsivedisorder(OCD) was separated from theanxietydisorders (which are suggested to be emotional processing problems) and placed in the category of the obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs), which also include hoarding disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, excoriation disorder,...
childhood through adulthood.3, 4 Although hoarding has traditionally been regarded as a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the differences between hoarding and the other obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions are compelling enough that some researchers now think that hoarding is a separate disorder.5...
pathological collecting and hoarding that helps to explain why the popular, fictionalized representation of the disorder tends both to depart from but also supplement the clinical etiology of the disorder as described in the Disagnotic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM ...