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Starvation in obsessive–compulsive disorder due to scrupulosity

This report describes an unusual presentation of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) with predominant religious obsessions and compulsions (scrupulosity) in which the patient starved himself by keeping fast excessively to the extent of emaciation and extreme weakness even in walking and became bedri...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Dinesh Dutt, Kumar, Ramesh, Sharma, Ravi Chand
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2915602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20703351
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.31563
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spelling pubmed-29156022010-08-11 Starvation in obsessive–compulsive disorder due to scrupulosity Sharma, Dinesh Dutt Kumar, Ramesh Sharma, Ravi Chand Indian J Psychiatry Case Report This report describes an unusual presentation of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) with predominant religious obsessions and compulsions (scrupulosity) in which the patient starved himself by keeping fast excessively to the extent of emaciation and extreme weakness even in walking and became bedridden. Medknow Publications 2006 /pmc/articles/PMC2915602/ /pubmed/20703351 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.31563 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sharma, Dinesh Dutt
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Sharma, Ravi Chand
Starvation in obsessive–compulsive disorder due to scrupulosity
title Starvation in obsessive–compulsive disorder due to scrupulosity
title_full Starvation in obsessive–compulsive disorder due to scrupulosity
title_fullStr Starvation in obsessive–compulsive disorder due to scrupulosity
title_full_unstemmed Starvation in obsessive–compulsive disorder due to scrupulosity
title_short Starvation in obsessive–compulsive disorder due to scrupulosity
title_sort starvation in obsessive–compulsive disorder due to scrupulosity
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2915602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20703351
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.31563
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