Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Masquerading as Psychosis

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is commonly regarded as a disorder with good insight. However, it has now been recognized that insight varies in these patients. Pathological beliefs seem to lie on a continuum of insight, with full insight at one end and delusion at the other. This can indeed pos...

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Autores principales: Raveendranathan, Dhanya, Shiva, Lakshmi, Sharma, Eesha, Venkatasubramanian, Ganesan, Rao, Mukund G., Varambally, Shivarama, Gangadhar, Bangalore N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23162197
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.101800
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author Raveendranathan, Dhanya
Shiva, Lakshmi
Sharma, Eesha
Venkatasubramanian, Ganesan
Rao, Mukund G.
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Shiva, Lakshmi
Sharma, Eesha
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description Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is commonly regarded as a disorder with good insight. However, it has now been recognized that insight varies in these patients. Pathological beliefs seem to lie on a continuum of insight, with full insight at one end and delusion at the other. This can indeed pose a considerable challenge, especially in a scenario where the phenomenon is difficult to discern. We report a case of OCD, which was initially diagnosed as psychosis.
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spelling pubmed-34987842012-11-16 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Masquerading as Psychosis Raveendranathan, Dhanya Shiva, Lakshmi Sharma, Eesha Venkatasubramanian, Ganesan Rao, Mukund G. Varambally, Shivarama Gangadhar, Bangalore N. Indian J Psychol Med Case Report Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is commonly regarded as a disorder with good insight. However, it has now been recognized that insight varies in these patients. Pathological beliefs seem to lie on a continuum of insight, with full insight at one end and delusion at the other. This can indeed pose a considerable challenge, especially in a scenario where the phenomenon is difficult to discern. We report a case of OCD, which was initially diagnosed as psychosis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3498784/ /pubmed/23162197 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.101800 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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