If someone had a child in the family murdered and it was never solved, if they spend hours a day recounting details (that the police might have missed), or remembering arriving at the scene, or analyzing every part of the confession that got thrown out on a technicality, etc.
Would it be more OCD or PTSD that the doctor or therapist would be treating?
2007-02-06 17:22:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Mom has all the symptoms Louisa lists here.
2007-02-06 17:29:29 · update #1
PTSD.
Some people can never get out of that moment to the point they are unaware of their physical world once they are removed from the situation or something can trigger back to that time and put them in that set at another point in their life. There are MANY many disorders that come out of being abused. I forget the name of the "Scale" that is used but it includes Multiple Personality Disorder (Stereotypes like to get Multiple Personality Disorder and Shitzophrenia mixed out. Schitz is genetic and forms later at life without anything being nessery to trigger it. Multiple Personality Disorder is something you form out of certain breaking points of abuse or bad situations.. it's something for Survival.)
I'm sorry I don't remember the PC new name for Multiple Personality Disorder and I forget the name for the disorders in that "scale". It doesn't help I am messed up on meds right now so I can breath.
OCD is repeatition and Patterns, what your asking about sounds like someone that's getting lost in PTSD. It would be someone makeing something clean and locking the door 5 times each day (The OCD) verse someone reliveing some part of a bad event in their mind over and over or trying to return to a good point in their lives (the PTSD).
2007-02-06 17:35:49 · answer #1 · answered by sailortinkitty 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess what the doctor treated would depend on how they diagnosed it. I don't see this type of situation as being OCD.
OCD is a well-defined psychiatric disorder: It is most commonly characterized by a person's obsessive, distressing, intrusive thoughts and related compulsions used to attempt to neutralize the obsessions.
With it being defined as above, I would have to say that a person who shows signs of infatuation or fixation with a subject (such as in this case) does not necessarily have OCD,
I don't know jack about PTSD - good luck with your life =)!!
2007-02-06 17:35:49 · answer #2 · answered by jennainhiding 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it would be either of those. It would be the need to find the answer to a horribly painful loss.
They are obsessing, but it's not like the regular OCD and PTSD would be present for many years, but there is a third factor..grief, loss, anger, the need to know the answer for closure to take place.
2007-02-06 17:35:15 · answer #3 · answered by gemma 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just because someone wants justice for a murdered child, doesn't mean that person is suffering from a mental or an emotional disorder.
Personally, I can't imagine not doing something similar if I were in her shoes!
2007-02-06 19:43:46 · answer #4 · answered by charliecizarny 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OCD. PTSD involves things like not being able to sleep, having hot flashes, flashbacks, night terrors, being socially screwed up, etc.
2007-02-06 17:27:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not a doctor, but I think the parent would have a combination of both.
Obsessive because they are obsessive with catching the killer, and post traumatic because no parent should have to bury their child.
2007-02-06 17:25:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋