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Pregnancy-induced obsessive compulsive disorder: a case report

Pregnancy is a well-recognised risk factor in precipitating obsessive-compulsive disorder. We present and discuss a case with the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the fourth month of gestation, which fully recovered two weeks after delivery. The phenomenology of the observed disorder was si...

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Autores principales: Kalra, Harish, Tandon, Rajul, Trivedi, Jitendra kumar, Janca, Aleksandar
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1164400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15955256
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-4-12
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author Kalra, Harish
Tandon, Rajul
Trivedi, Jitendra kumar
Janca, Aleksandar
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Tandon, Rajul
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description Pregnancy is a well-recognised risk factor in precipitating obsessive-compulsive disorder. We present and discuss a case with the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the fourth month of gestation, which fully recovered two weeks after delivery. The phenomenology of the observed disorder was similar to earlier reports of obsessive-compulsive disorder in pregnancy, i.e. the obsessions and compulsions were predominantly related to the concern of contaminating the foetus resulting in washing compulsions. Despite the initial success with anti-obsessional drugs, the patient stopped the medication in the last month of gestation. Nevertheless, she fully recovered two weeks after the delivery without any psychiatric intervention. There were no obsessive-compulsive symptoms at one-year follow up. The possible mechanisms involved in the aetiology of this case, and future research directions in understanding the role of pregnancy in OCD are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-11644002005-06-29 Pregnancy-induced obsessive compulsive disorder: a case report Kalra, Harish Tandon, Rajul Trivedi, Jitendra kumar Janca, Aleksandar Ann Gen Psychiatry Case Report Pregnancy is a well-recognised risk factor in precipitating obsessive-compulsive disorder. We present and discuss a case with the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the fourth month of gestation, which fully recovered two weeks after delivery. The phenomenology of the observed disorder was similar to earlier reports of obsessive-compulsive disorder in pregnancy, i.e. the obsessions and compulsions were predominantly related to the concern of contaminating the foetus resulting in washing compulsions. Despite the initial success with anti-obsessional drugs, the patient stopped the medication in the last month of gestation. Nevertheless, she fully recovered two weeks after the delivery without any psychiatric intervention. There were no obsessive-compulsive symptoms at one-year follow up. The possible mechanisms involved in the aetiology of this case, and future research directions in understanding the role of pregnancy in OCD are discussed. BioMed Central 2005-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC1164400/ /pubmed/15955256 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-4-12 Text en Copyright © 2005 Kalra et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Pregnancy-induced obsessive compulsive disorder: a case report
title_fullStr Pregnancy-induced obsessive compulsive disorder: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Pregnancy-induced obsessive compulsive disorder: a case report
title_short Pregnancy-induced obsessive compulsive disorder: a case report
title_sort pregnancy-induced obsessive compulsive disorder: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1164400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15955256
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-4-12
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