Talk:Obsessive–compulsive disorder

Inaccurate history of OCD is presented

The article neglects to mention that the first clinical description of OCD was by Abu Zayd al-Balkhi in the 9th century work Sustenance of the Body and Soul.

For details, see "Obsessional Disorders in al-Balkhi′s 9th century treatise: Sustenance of the Body and Soul" published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 180, 15 July 2015, Pages 185-189.

I am including the abstract below:

Morbid fears and phobias have been mentioned in religious, philosophical and medical manuscripts since ancient times. Despite early insights by the Greeks, phobias did not appear as a separate clinical phenomenon in Western medicine until the 17th century and has evolved substantially since. However, robust investigations attempting to decipher the clinical nature of phobias emerged in pre-modern times during the oft-overlooked Islamic Golden Era (9th–12th centuries); which overlapped with Europe’s medieval period. An innovative attempt was made by the 9th century Muslim scholar, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, in his medical manuscript “Sustenance of the Body and Soul,” to define phobias as a separate diagnostic entity. Al-Balkhi was one of the earliest to cluster psychological and physical symptoms of phobias under one category, “al-Fazaá”, and outline a specific management plan. We analyze al-Balkhi’s description of phobias, according to the modern understanding of psychiatric classifications and symptomatology as described in the DSM-5.

Changing Image Part 2

I know a few users discussed changing the images on the OCD page to better reflect this condition, and shy away from stereotyping. I drafted up a potential gallery to include after the 'Introduction' in my sandbox, and included two potential main images. I understand we discussed wanting to maybe do a gallery, but I was unable to edit the template to include more than two images. A gallery may be nice! Here is a link to my sandbox:[1]https://w.wiki/9yhp If I get some approvals, I'll add this to the page. Sherlocke (talk) 21:41, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 June 2024

Please change “Risk Factors” from “Child Abuse and Stress” to “Genetics, Biology, Temperaments and Childhood Trauma”. Based on the source referenced: The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (January 2016). "What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?". U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Archived from the original on 23 July 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2016. Shepalovelace81 (talk) 11:21, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

 Done PianoDan (talk) 17:38, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Why is it worded like that?

Why is the first line of the article worded like this?

"a mental and behavioral disorder in which (...)in which an individual has intrusive thoughts (an obsession) and feels the need to perform certain routines (compulsions) repeatedly to relieve the distress caused by the obsession"

OCD behaviours are not necessarily routines or rituals. And to put "compulsions" in parantheses afterwards seems to suggest that a compulsion, in this context, is synonymous with ritualistic behaviours.

I propose that the phrasing "feels the need to perform certain behaviours (compulsions) to relieve the distress caused by the obsession, often repeatedly" would be more accurate. There's nothing in the first section of this article that would tell me that compulsive behaviours can come in any form, and that they aren't always repetitive. Sjokolade1998 (talk) 15:17, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 December 2024

Can I make edits to this page? Alyssaxmay (talk) 09:05, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: this is not the right page to request additional user rights. You may reopen this request with the specific changes to be made and someone may add them for you, or if you have an account, you can wait until you are autoconfirmed and edit the page yourself. Cannolis (talk) 09:34, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Hyphen in the title instead of an en dash

The title of this article currently uses an en dash between "Obsessive" and "compulsive". I believe this is incorrect and instead should be a standard hyphen, e.g., "Obsessive-compulsive disorder" rather than "Obsessive–compulsive disorder". I've looked up various sources on this:

1. Health Professions Institute: Compounds consisting of words that are of equal weight are hyphenated: obsessive-compulsive, physician-patient relationship, mother-daughter bond.

2. Merriam-Webster spells the term obsessive-compulsive disorder.

3. Psychiatry.org also uses the term spelled with a hyphen.

Maybe there's a reason it's done with an en dash? Otherwise, this is a suggested change I plan to implement in this article. Qreligious (talk) 21:32, 6 December 2024 (UTC)