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Blasphemous thoughts in obsessive–compulsive disorder: A case series

Obsessive–compulsive disorders (OCDs) are one of the top 10 contributors of debilitating medical illnesses and are the fourth most common psychiatric disorder. Blasphemous thoughts, also known as scrupulosity, as an obsessional theme has piqued curiosities long before it was considered a neurosis. S...

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Autores principales: Ali, Tahoora, Mujawar, Swaleha, Davis, Supriya, Chaudhury, Suprakash, Saldanha, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8611568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34908704
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.328824
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author Ali, Tahoora
Mujawar, Swaleha
Davis, Supriya
Chaudhury, Suprakash
Saldanha, Daniel
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description Obsessive–compulsive disorders (OCDs) are one of the top 10 contributors of debilitating medical illnesses and are the fourth most common psychiatric disorder. Blasphemous thoughts, also known as scrupulosity, as an obsessional theme has piqued curiosities long before it was considered a neurosis. Such obsessions may or may not have an accompanying compulsion and comprise 5% of the patients of OCD. The case series is of three patients suffering from repetitive, intrusive, ego-dystonic, and distressing blasphemous thoughts, which are extremely distressing to them, rendering them unable to perform any other activity. The symptoms also indicate the presence of comorbid depressive and anxiety disorders, developing secondary to the blasphemous thoughts. Inadequate knowledge in this subtype of OCD mandates the need for more studying and research, especially with new texts suggesting the implementation of faith-assisted psychotherapy in addition to the conventional psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-86115682021-12-13 Blasphemous thoughts in obsessive–compulsive disorder: A case series Ali, Tahoora Mujawar, Swaleha Davis, Supriya Chaudhury, Suprakash Saldanha, Daniel Ind Psychiatry J Case Series Obsessive–compulsive disorders (OCDs) are one of the top 10 contributors of debilitating medical illnesses and are the fourth most common psychiatric disorder. Blasphemous thoughts, also known as scrupulosity, as an obsessional theme has piqued curiosities long before it was considered a neurosis. Such obsessions may or may not have an accompanying compulsion and comprise 5% of the patients of OCD. The case series is of three patients suffering from repetitive, intrusive, ego-dystonic, and distressing blasphemous thoughts, which are extremely distressing to them, rendering them unable to perform any other activity. The symptoms also indicate the presence of comorbid depressive and anxiety disorders, developing secondary to the blasphemous thoughts. Inadequate knowledge in this subtype of OCD mandates the need for more studying and research, especially with new texts suggesting the implementation of faith-assisted psychotherapy in addition to the conventional psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-10 2021-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8611568/ /pubmed/34908704 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.328824 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Industrial Psychiatry Journal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8611568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34908704
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.328824
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