Case Study

Obsessive : Thoughts that wont go

Compulsive: Actions that help with the obsessive

Started 6-7 grade (Triggered through guilt)

Ever since the trigger she had to always confess. It got to a plece where even the small things she had to confess.

She began to feel guilty for telling her opinon, her food choices and even felt guilty when her parents spent money on her.

She is known to always follow the rules.

She began to send her mother emails often in a day confessing about things she has been thinking about.

After 7th grade the OCD cooled off, it was when she reached Junior year it began again. Only this was different, she began having sever compulsions. This would consist of her counting her steps foward as they will have to be the same back If she hits her left hand- she will need to hit her right.

Living a double life.

  • Brother pushed samantha to a pole. Instead of feeling hurt, she felt lost. Her right felt unbalances. Paniced. Samantha got up, and hit her right side.
  • Everything needs to be balances. Symetry needs to happen or bad will follow.
  • Symetry equals relief
  • Symetry, Perfection & Time Managment consist of her.
  • Samantha will try go a whole day without toughing things as she knows it will save time.
  • As she spent hours perfecting notes, high school was hard.
  • It came to the point where, university was hard.
  • She began to make a plan, to make plans.
  • Stated ‘OCD, keeps me balance’
  • Automatically, because of her OCD- she was known as a good student due to having repetivley write down her notes, over and over again.
  • Her father gave her an IPAD for university, whch made life easy for her taking notes and saving time.
  • Turned down medication, she didnt want to get rid of it. She wanted to know how to control it, and to one day embrace it.