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A case of obsessive-compulsive disorder by proxy
Menon Vikas1, Ramamurthy Chandrasekaran
1Department of Psychiatry, JIPMER, Puducherry-605006, India. drvmenon@gmail.com
Abstract:
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a frequent psychiatric disorder with a lifetime prevalence rate of 2%-3 % (Sadock, B.J. & Kaplan, H.I. (Eds.). Kaplan and Sadock's synopsis of psychiatry: behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry, 9th ed. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. 2003). Patients almost always carry out compulsions to minimize their anxiety/distress associated with the obsessions. Repeated thoughts about contamination represent one of the most common obsessions (American Psychiatric Association. Obsessive-compulsive disorder. In: Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed., text revision). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association; 2000). In this report, we describe an interesting case of a 58-year-old lady who substituted her husband for her to perform the compulsive behaviors.
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